An Intimate Evening with David Ramirez
David Ramirez
Date
Friday
December 19, 2025
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An Intimate Evening with David Ramirez
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Friday, December 19th, 2025
Doors 6:30 | Support 7:30 | David Ramirez 8:15
David Ramirez-All the Not So Gentle Reminders“I’m over the anger, the sadness, all the not so gentle reminders of my nature. I’mmoving forward;I can see it coming soon.”From“Waiting On The Dust To Settle”David Ramirez took a little time to get back to himself, and now he’s dead set on makingmusic for himself—for the sake of the music,and nothing else.“I love all the records I’ve made in the past,” says Ramirez.“But in making them, therewas always the thought in the back of my mind of where and what it could get me. I madeboth creative and business decisions with a goal in mind;a goal that often never came.This time it was all about just the joy of making it, about having fun with it.”The Austin, TX-based singer-songwriter—whose career has seen six full-length studioalbums, three EPs, countless collaborations, and an illustrious supergroup project inGlorietta—spent a season of rest away from his focus on writing songs. In the wake ofthe end of a long relationship, he wanted to prioritize processing his grief as a human, notas an artist bleeding ontothe page.“The last thing I wanted was to write a heartbreak record. So I stopped writing altogether,and I just waited until I saw my heart start coming back to life. I wanted the next thing tobe hopeful and sweet and beautiful—a testament to music and my love forit.”Ramirez’snew record,All the Not So Gentle Reminders,is exactly what he was waitingfor. The 12-song album is an expansive succession of dreamlike songs thatindeedtellhis stories—but more than anything,lean into the possibilities of the trip that music cantake us on.“I’ve been a songwriter for a long time. I love words and stories. But this wasabout music. I wanted the long musical intros and outros[asheardon “Dirty Martini,”“Twin Sized Beds,”“A Bigger World,”and “Dreams Come True”]to contribute to the storiesand be a part of them.”The lead track, “Maybe It Was All a Dream,”sets this theme of the ethereal anddreamyfrom the outset. It’s a three-and-a-half-minute musical tour de force—at first,asimplesynth line over a subdued drum machine,that eventually morphs into a grandioserollickof organ, drum rolls, and electric guitars. All the while, staticky, broken voicesrepeat thealmost-haunting coda that gives the record its name. In the end, this “dream”is interruptedand punctuated by a recording of Ramirez’s own mother saying,“David...David... it’s timeto get up.”In “Deja Voodoo,”Ramirez questions his own memory, wondering if he remembers his
life as it really was, or if even the past itself is a dream colored by time and distance.Hesings,“Maybe it was in another life. Maybe it was just a dream. Was it a memory passeddown from another? A cosmic sunflare? Or just deja vu?”It’s easy to wonder whether thenot-so-gentle reminders are themselves facts, or just figments of our imagination—something to be trusted or something to move on from andreclaimour lives.The songs for the album were written during a writing getaway David went on for twoweeks, where he holed up at Standard Deluxe—a music venue and art space in thetiny100-person town of Waverly, Alabama. His goal was to get out of the noise of Austin fora while, to be alone, to get back to writing with the “uninterrupted silence [he had] beenmissing.”All the Not So Gentle Reminderswas recorded at Spectra Studios in Cedar Park, TXjustoutside of Austin, engineered by Charlie Kramsky at the helm. He tapped localstaplesas the house musicians for the sessions, including Barbara Frigiere, Jeff Olson,JamesWestley Essary, and Christopher Boosahda (who also helped to produce thealbumalongside Ramirez). And in the spirit of the exuberance and joy of the recording,he alsocalled upon a handful of friends to contribute and sing background vocalsthroughout thealbum.“It made sense to bring in this group as we were so tight musically and relationally fromtouring together the last few years. Like all my albums before this I never want to repeatwhat I’ve previously made. This was no exception. I brought in Boosahda toco-producebecause I had never tried my hand at the captain's wheel, and I wanted someoneexperienced and with a different musical background than me to bring some extra shine.”Throughout the album, David tackles memory and dreams, fleeting romance, thepossibility of something better ahead, and his own deep appreciation for music and hisplace in making it. The fact that he considered giving it up altogether—a decision hethankfully didn’t follow through with—All the Not So Gentle Remindersonly serves to bethat much more impactful as a testament to music and its power.Most pointedly in “Music Man,”he recalls his own turning point as a boy, listening on aWalkman his father gave him... a fateful turn that led him to where he is today.“So take alook at me now. I’m quite the music man. Take a look at the crowd.We’re all here for themusic, man.It’s the music, man.”On what is his most ambitious, lush, and exuberantrecord to date, David is leaning in full-hearted to who he knows he is at his core—and notletting anything else stand in hisway.“I will always be me. I’ve seen enough of the business to know that chasing its praiseswillonly land me in a world of disappointment and self-doubt. I’m wholly back in my chiand, fingers crossed, have the strength to stay.
