Established in 2005 by Ricardo Hoffmann (vocals, guitar, piano, organ, banjo, concertina, singing saw) and Ines Hoffmann (bass, guitar), the Berlin based band Saline Grace evoke a deeply sinister fascination.

Indeed, on the one hand they combine the nightmarish accentuated scenes of a David Lynch with Nick Cave-like raging and the philosophical poetry of a Leonard Cohen, but on the other hand creating pictorial synaesthesias they raise nightly panoramas from imaginatively enraptured roadmovies and give not uncommonly a premonition of British bands like And Also The Trees, Tindersticks or those mystical moments of the American band The Doors.

Saline Grace’s intentionally antiquated arrangements, mainly consisting of a mandoline-like guitar, twang or slide guitar sounds, bass, piano, organ and dark jazz drums, draw marvellously attention to singer and composer Ricardo Hoffmann’s emotional baritone.