Squidco: Reign of Ferns (Raffa / Weathers): In The Same Room

In The Same Room

A transpacific collaboration merging long-distant sonic composition and improvisation between Taipei-based Ryan J Raffa and Texas composer Andrew Weathers, capturing the evolving project Reign of Ferns in an intimate, improvisational exchange of texture and tone, their music shaped by distance, friendship, and the quiet resonance of shared creative presence.

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Personnel:

Ryan J Raffa-composer, performer

Andrew Weathers-composer, performer

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Label: Editions Glomar
Catalog ID: GLOM10
Squidco Product Code: 36825

Format: CDR
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard sleeve, sealed
Recorded by the artists.

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"Music is connection, the anchor of my life, the anchor of my friend's lives. I follow it to find myself in quiet rooms and loud rooms, familiar and boring and surreal and filthy. There's not a place that Music Happens, but there's the people music happens with. I've never been in Ryan's studio in Taipei, but I know it from the video calls that we share to keep Reign of Ferns going. I gauge my tomorrow looking at the morning light coming in through his windows.

Last summer, my last summer "Texan," we spent some days together. We listened, sat on the patio once the evening got cool, truly the things that are worthwhile. My studio a tangle of cabling, knots of signal. Somewhere in the process I momentarily forgot that I'm left-handed and dislocated my shoulder taking a sledgehammer to a car door. All of that is in this music, like it always is.

Reign of Ferns music continues to shift, a constant presence in both of our lives, a tether across the pacific."-EDITIONS GLORMAR

Artist Biographies

• Show Bio for Ryan J Raffa

"Ryan J Raffa is an interdisciplinary artist based in Taipei, Taiwan. Their work is rooted in the transformative power of improvisation, informed by personal geographies, the prismatic lens of Eastern thought, and observations within our shared sonic vocabularies.

Recent solo works include Memory Field at the Mastu Biennial and the albums 4 e and a (Group Tightener) and We Have Always Existed (Aural Canyon). Collaborative projects include Out Beyond Is (Longform Editions) as Reign of Ferns and the sound installation Sound of the Beyond with Lim Giong."

-Ryan J Raffa Website (https://www.rjraffa.net/)
10/6/2025

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• Show Bio for Andrew Weathers

"Andrew Weathers (b.1988) is a composer and improviser originally from Chapel Hill, NC and currently based in Littlefield, TX. His work engages with notions of place, tradition, repetition, and spirit, splitting the difference between folk music and Land Art. Weathers studied composition at UNC-Greensboro and electronic music at Mills College in Oakland, CA.

A consistent presence in the underground music scene over the past decade, Weathers' work covers a wide spectrum from solo acoustic guitar to electronic noise. He also performs and records regularly with Tender Crust, Wind Tide, Satin Spar, Tamarisk, Llano Estacado Monad Band, Tethers and Real Life Rock & Roll Band. Weathers also produces recordings for the Full Spectrum, Other Minds, and Rural Situationism record labels, curates the Longitudes music series at CO-OPt Research + Projects in Lubbock, TX and works as a freelance mixing and mastering engineer."

-Andrew Weathers Website (https://www.andrewweathers.com/)
10/6/2025

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Track Listing:

1. Remains the Rain 22:57

2. Cascade Tub 26:43

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