Just Desserts: Curtains
(2025 Just Desserts)
‘Curtains’ is the fourth full length album from a NYC duo that has made music since 1977, playing clubs like CBGBs, Mercury Lounge, Knitting Factory, Rodeo Bar, Pyramid Club, etc. while recording albums, EPs and Singles along the way.
Tom Laverack is one half of Just Desserts, a singer-songwriter, co-owner of Sojourn Records, and former social worker. Laverack has released four solo albums, he dabbles in writing prose and poetry and is excellent at Excel.
Larry Fessenden (the other half), an acclaimed independent film director and producer and proprietor of the company Glass Eye Pix since 1985, has been instrumental in producing, promoting and launching the careers of a host of filmmakers. Larry’s films include No Telling, Habit, Wendigo, The Last Winter, Depraved and Blackout, all of which feature the music of Tom Laverack.
‘Curtains’ is a post-Covid reconnection of two old pals who worked out the details of this record in Larry’s barn in the Catskills. A few songs have origins in sessions dating back to 2017 and one dates back to 1989. The songs and sounds of the album evoke a lived in feeling of relative oldsters that haven’t quite grown up but are feeling the cinch of time.
Recorded, produced, mixed and chaperoned by Mark Ambrosino rat his storied studio The Madhouse in Queens, NY and featuring Ambrosino on drums and former Just Desserts session players Dave Richards and David Morgan on basic tracks, the album features an array of very special guests who contribute to the immersive soundscape
Insist the creators: “While the title does refer to the imminent dirt nap, it is actually an appreciation for being alive. Welcome to our world. Come stay a while.”
1 Mad About The World (1:23)
2 Spark (3:39)
3 Didn’t Want That (4:09)
4 Aint Seen the End of You (3:31)
5 Nothing You’d Ever Want (4:59)
6 Change Your Mind (5:04)
7 Lower Than Low (4:40)
8 Stiff Upper Lip (3:44)
9 Something to Hold On To (4:29)
10 Heart (3:53)
11 Days of Loneliness (4:44)
12 Evergreen (4:10)
13 Bitter Moon (3:45)
14 Tender (4:20)
15 Curtains (2:55)
