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New Weird American Movement/Freak Folk singer/songwriter Raymond Byron Magic Raposa (Castanets, Raymond Byron and the White Freighter) writes in both an Americana style, and also in idiosyncratic, imaginative and unusual terms, using strong and unlikely images around ambiguous subjects that make his songs curiously repeatable, here in 20 succinct songs. |
In Stock Shipping Weight: 24.00 units Quantity in Basket: None Log In to use our Wish List ![]() UPC: 825481505116 Label: ESP Catalog ID: ESPDISK 5051LP Squidco Product Code: 31783 Format: LP Condition: New Released: 2022 Country: USA Packaging: LP Recorded at Old Unconscious, in Portland, Oregon, by Cory Gray. Personnel: Raymond Byron-performer Cory Gray-performer Erik Clampitt-performer Pony Domer-performer Jason Stinson-performer Lauren K. Newman-performer Kimba Kuzas-performer Ron Burns-performer Paula Barry-performer Coty Dolores Miranda-performer Josh Cole Click an artist name above to see in-stock items for that artist. Highlight an instrument above and click here to Search for albums with that instrument. ![]() ![]() Artist Biographies: • Show Bio for Raymond Byron "In a two-decade career, Raymond Byron Magic Raposa has recorded six albums as Castanets, another as Raymond Byron and the White Freighter, and has worked with musicians ranging from Annie Clark (St. Vincent), Matthew Houck (Phosphorescent), and Sufjan Stevens, to Liz Janes, Jana Hunter, Nathan Hubbard (Trummerflora, Cosmologic), and John McCauley (Deer Tick). Over the course of that time, his music has been called part of the new weird America movement, freak-folk, psychedelic folk, and indie folk." -Squidco 8/3/2022Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography. ^ Hide Bio for Raymond Byron ![]() SIDE A 1. How It Ends 1:12 2. Vaya 1:04 3. Paris Trout 1:49 4. Colima 1:43 5. There in the Loam 1:53 6. Polly 2:41 7. Emma 2:11 8. Cyclone Fence 1:06 9. No Joke 1:47 10. I Don't Captain 1:24 11. Gone Rider Spur 2:02 SIDE B 1. Polly 2 (Sparrow) 0:42 2. Old Unconscious 1:00 3. Benediction Mountain 1:47 4. Bond Wire Cur 5:06 5. Before What's Left of Our Minds Go 2:25 6. Yea That I Walk 1:43 7. Wings of a Dove 3:16 8. Lope 1:11 9. Next Trick 2:24 |
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Bond Wire Cur is as surreal and desolate and haunting as anything Raymond Byron has done. Collaborators on the album are many, yet the sound of the record is stripped-down and stark. It is a crucial chapter in his career and in ESP-Disk's Drive to Revive Weird Rock.QUOTES: "Strong and weird. Using ancient ingredients these little vignettes grow sneakily large and become some new kind of food. It's beautiful and Ray's finest record yet." - Matthew Houck (Phosphorescent) re: Bond Wire Cur"Raposa's skill as a singer and a lyricist are inextricably linked. His voice has a drifting, spectral quality that's perfectly suited to his overlapping images. Like John Ashbery, he's able to sustain pointed ambiguity for the duration of a composition, talking all around the thing without saying it." - Brian Howe, Pitchfork, re: Castanets' First Light's Freeze
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