Van Walker returns from his award winning album GHOSTING (2020) with HEALING DESCENT (2024). Ten very personally powerful songs written around the spring of the first major lockdown (2020).
Having toured Ireland and Canada last year, Van found himself with a few spare days off and so teamed up with ex-pat Chris Altmann (Celestial Railroad, Bush League Bard) to produce Healing Descent, out now on Cheersquad Records and Tapes.
Performing Live with his dobro sideman Dan Musil.
Van Walker is a prolific and celebrated songwriter in the genres of folk, blues, country and rocknroll, a 'cult figure' in his adopted home of Victoria, with a vast catalogue of poetic lyric-driven material that explore a range of personal and social themes. His early solo work was compiled on the album Underneath the Radar 2008-2012 (Fuse music), rocknroll on I Wish Life Could Be...Swedish Magazines (Rubber Records, 4.5 Stars Rolling Stone), and his last solo album Ghosting (Green South Records) was the Rhthym readers runner-up album of 2o2o. He continues to tour consistently nationally and internationally, having just returned from another tour of Ireland and also Canada where his new album Healing Descent has been recorded, along with his work with The Ferriters, who have been described as "one of the best acts on the Irish-Australian scene" - Koroit Irish Festival, along with his own solo work, he continues to receive critical acclaim for his contributions to the industry.
"One of the finest songwriters in the country." - Jeff Lang
New album 'Healing Descent" available to now!Recorded during a break on a Canadian tour last year with mate, multi-instrumentalist and producer of The Celestial Railroad (2008) and Bush League Bard (2010) Chris Altmann, 'Healing Descent' is available to pre-order now on limited edition (100 only) opaque purple 12" vinyl, black 12" vinyl and digitally.https://cheersquadrecordstapes.bandcamp.com/.../healing...
“Another effortless classic album.” ~ Mick Thomas, Weddings Parties Anything
"Messages from an unearthly time: beyond our modern tropes. I wanna live in that time." ~Tim Rogers, You Am I
"Poetic and elemental. Van's in his Nature Boy era and I'm here for it! After the changes and stresses we've all been through collectively over the last few years, this record feels like meditation." ~ Ella Hooper, Killing Heidi