Ricardo Hoffmann is the composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer of Saline Grace.

Born in the eastern border town of Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, he founded his first band The Vagrants in 1994,
becoming two years later, in 1996, the darkwave band Nobility Of Salt. In 1997, the band released a first demo tape
The Evening Prayer and the musicians were drawn for several years to London. The UK gigs left appropriate traces on
a further demo tape Through Clouds And Thoughtful Years in 1998. From February 2000 onwards, the band worked
on their first album The Tremulous Sea in Berlin, Germany, and released it in autumn of the same year. After releasing
The Silent Ship in 2002, followed the last Nobility Of Salt release Those Narrow Streets in April 2004.

In 2005, Ricardo Hoffmann began to work on material for a further album. On this occasion, he was supported by his
present wife and long-term bass player, Ines Hoffmann (née Pollok), who came initially in touch with Ricardo Hoffmann's music in 1994. Saline Grace was born. With its sinister Americana sounds, the debut album Border Town Shades marked concurrently a stylistic change and was released on 1st September 2007.

In 2011, Ricardo Hoffmann made time for a guest appearance, joining Hamburg-based band Dark Orange on their album Horizont. On this album, along with Steven Burrows (And Also The Trees) on bass, Hoffmann contributed on guitar and piano. Early in 2012, he remixed the Dark Orange song Traumwandler (Rising Stream Mix) for Interpretations, a bonus CD of the same release; other remixes were made by artists like Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) and members of And Also The Trees.

On 21st January 2013, the second Saline Grace album Fog Mountain was released and it was chosen as one of the best
ten albums of 2013 by German music magazine Amboss. Four years later, on 4th September 2017, Saline Grace released
Blacksmith's Fire, whereby, with its 1960’s sounds it drew concurrently a line under a sinister Americana trilogy.

On 12th July 2021, the first politically motivated Saline Grace single Der Meister der Intrige was released and two years later, on 21st January 2023, The Whispering Woods, an evocative album full of pictorial synaesthesias.

Now, after more than twenty-five years with several projects in music business, the already fifth Saline Grace album
The Tree of Knowledge was released on 18th May 2026.

DISCOGRAPHY

Albums:
Saline Grace - Border Town Shades (Album 2007/DWRCD03)
Saline Grace - Fog Mountain (Album 2013/DWRCD04)
Saline Grace - Blacksmith‘s Fire (Album 2017/DWRCD05)
Saline Grace - The Whispering Woods (Album 2023/DWRAL06)
Saline Grace - The Tree of Knowledge (Album 2026 / DWRAL07

Singles:
Saline Grace - Der Meister der Intrige (Single 2021/DWRSIN05)
Saline Grace - The Evening Prayer (Single 2023/DWRSIN06)
Saline Grace - Bar Moon (Single 2023 / DWRSIN07)
Saline Grace - Rooms to Let (Single 2026 / DWRSIN08)

PROJECTS, GUEST APPEARANCES, BOOKS AND COMPILATIONS

Nobility Of Salt - The Evening Prayer (Demo 1997)
Nobility Of Salt - Through Clouds And Thoughtful Years (Demo 1998)
Nobility Of Salt - The Tremulous Sea (CD 2000/DWRCD01)
Nobility Of Salt - The Silent Ship EP (CDM 2002/DWRCDM01)
Nobility Of Salt - Those Narrow Streets (CD 2004/DWRCD02)
Dark Spy Compilation Vol. 17 (CD 2008/Dark Spy Magazine – Issue No. 23)
Mick Mercer - Music To Die For (Cherry Red Books 2009)
Dark Orange - Horizont (2CD 2012/KAL41)
Orkus! Compilation 87 (CD 2013/Orkus! Magazine – Issue No. 03 – March 2013)
Cold Hands Seduction – Vol. 191 (CD 2017/Sonic Seducer – September 2017)