FOR YOUR GRAMMY® CONSIDERATION

It is with so much gratitude to have my single accepted to the 69th GRAMMY® Awards and on the official ballot!

Häana :: GHOST RANCH

Song of the Year | Best Alternative Music Performance

It’s a haunting ghostly love story, hidden in a desert landscape. The song encapsulates the beauty of what remains.

ABOUT ::

“Ghost Ranch” is a cinematic electronica saga about the ghosts of love, the lives we’ve lived, and the quiet transformation of past relationships into new energy and light.

Composed during an extended, self-guided artist retreat in the high desert of New Mexico, the song was born at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiú, a place of extraordinary natural beauty and spiritual resonance, famously associated with artist Georgia O’Keeffe. Its vast, otherworldly landscape became an integral part of the music itself.

Dust-laden electronic textures, emotive cinematic strings, and plaintive acoustic guitar converge to create a richly layered sonic world: intimate yet expansive, haunting yet luminous. The result is a meditation on love and loss that ultimately finds its way toward resolution :: not by erasing the past, but by allowing it to become something new.

Ghost Ranch is an invitation to inhabit that in-between space, where memory becomes myth, heartache softens into acceptance, and the fading light reveals something unexpected.

For the full experience, pour a hot lavender tea or a dram of bourbon, settle beside the fire, and let the music unfold at dusk.

TRACK CREDITS ::

Ghost Ranch by Häana

Released by Paper Gold Records, Oct 10, 2025

produced, arranged, mixed by Häana, additional mixing by Mehdi Hassine
vocals + violin + viola :: Häana
guitar :: Thomas Hjorth
cello :: Hillary Flowers
violin/viola + vocals recorded at Pyramind Studios, San Francisco, CA
cello recorded at Seaboard Sound Studios, West Columbia SC by Chris Wenner
acoustic + slide guitar recorded at Velvet Mind Studios, Joshua Tree, CA, by Thomas Hjorth
mastered by Shawn Hatfield, AudibleOddities

cover art ::
by Marisa Pfenning (portrait in Pioneertown, CA) + Haana Thiem (Ghost Ranch Mountains, Abiquiu, NM)

graphic design by Häana
duster jacket designed by The ORDER
hat by Five and Diamond

ABOUT HÄANA

Häana is a Los Angeles–based producer and composer blending classical string virtuosity with downtempo bass, cinematic textures, and nature-field recordings. Known for her “future-ethereal” sound, she channels the emotive depth of artists like Massive Attack, Björk, and RY X while crafting engaging performances that merge reactive visuals, dance, and immersive electronics woven into deep, melodic, and atmospheric sets. With a festival résumé spanning Coachella, OZORA, Boom, and Shambhala, Häana creates sonic landscapes that invite listeners into liminal spaces of memory, mysticism, and physical place—a crossroads of ancient roots and future sound. Häana’s discography of music has amassed 1.7 million + streams on Spotify, 1 million + streams on Soundcloud, and 157k + views on YouTube.

Häana has performed as a live electronic sound artist for brands Intel, Apple, Amazon, Ferrari, Porsche, Nike, and a guest artist at Berklee in Valencia, Spain. She's also a film score composer and has scored a 90-min feature documentary This Cold Life (produced by Time, INC) and music for Heavy Water (produced by Red Bull).

"One of a kind atmospheric sonic experience" - Magnetic Magazine

"Remarkably stark fusion of the digital and the organic.” - Clash UK

“Sonic stardust.” - Vogue