Pete Ross & The Sapphire have once again waved their noir wand and transformed a traditional American lullaby into their own catchy “rockaby” – Mockingbird; and took a wrong turn into the deepest forest to create the anti-lullaby – Down To The Woods. In between 6 months of touring, promoting their 2012 release Rollin On Down The Lane, Ross and Sapphire, along with drummer, Alessio Russio went into SAE’s Milan studio and recorded these 2 songs, which will is exclusively available on 7” vinyl through Beast Records.

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Take one abandoned psychiatric hospital, add a bizarre, derelict casino on a hill overlooking Lake Como in Italy, and you have the location ingredients for the new music video ‘Devil Inside’; the first single to be taken from the new album by Pete Ross & The Sapphire. To this setting add four mysterious characters and a psychedelic story line and you have a music video that is more like a mini-film, shot by Italian director Viola Barbato.

‘Rollin’ On Down The Lane’ is the third studio album by Milan based, Australian singer/guitarist Pete Ross and introduces New Zealander bassist/vocalist Susy Sapphire. Recorded at Sudestudio (Italy) and produced by French rocker Dimi Dero, the album is based upon a dark and deadly trilogy written by Ross & Sapphire, and combines stories of misfortune, disbelief and regret. It also contains a cover of Tom Waits’ ‘Jesus Gonna Be Here’, and a contemporary arrangement of the Townes Van Zandt song, ‘Rake’.

Pete Ross & Susy Sapphire began their musical partnership in 2010 when Ross’ second album Midnight Show, co-written by Sapphire, was released on 12’vinyl through French label Beast Records. Midnight Show featured guests Gianluca De Rubertis, Roberto Dell’Era (Afterhours) and Enrico Gabrielli (Calibro 35), and was mixed by Tommaso Colliva (Muse, Afterhours). Martin Jones of Rhythms Magazine described it as a psychedelic spaghetti western soundtrack, and it was from this base that their new album evolved. Pete’s 2009 debut album Six String Suicide was recorded in Australia with his former band The Paesanos, and released in Italy through Halidon Music SRL.

Pete has been touring across Europe, the US and Australia since 2008. Highlights have included SXSW (USA 2010), Mirande Music Festival (FR 2010), Binic Folk Blues Festival (FR 2010 & 2011), Festival Des Alpilles (FR 2011) and 3 performances on RAI International (IT). Prior to that he was a guitarist with successful EMI artist Dan Brodie.