About the Album

Nick Coetzee created an award-wining instrumental album called Harvest around 1991. You should be able to get a copy off of his Rain Music website. He sent it to me.

 

I was going through a divorce and completely shattered. I could hardly get out of bed in the mornings, but was singing and part-time managing a restaurant in Stellenbosch. I would leave Cape Town, Southern Suburbs, feeling like I could not work and certainly was unable to sing. I was so depressed. With absolute determination, I would fight against the darkness that was trying to overwhelm my soul and "put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness". I would feel like my praise was hitting the ceiling of the car and bouncing,  back at me. Then the breakthrough would come! Inspired by the music, I wrote songs over the instrumental and called it Rain Before Harvest. The vocals and  guitar were recorded direcly live onto a DAT tape recorder. It was passionate stuff.  Nick would have preferred to have remixed and produced these songs specifically.  I liked it a lot anyway and hope you will also.