Ryan J Raffa // 4 e and a LP

過去にAural CanyonやShimmering Moodsなどから発表している台湾・台北のアンビエント作家Ryan J Raffaが、2023年1月にアメリカ・NYのオールジャンルレーベルGroup Tightenerからリリースしたレコードです。

ドリーミーなシンセアンビエント〜アンビエント・IDM〜アンビエント・ダブ8曲を収録。

8ページのブックレットとDLコード付属。

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Includes DL code. Edition of 250. Includes 8-page booklet. 

Tracklist:

1. All At Once 08:46
2. Thoughtful In Late Nights 04:46
3. Heart Shaped Holes In Your Heart 01:57
4. The Benefits Of Getting Lost 04:03
5. Spirits Of Menghuanhu 09:43
6. How Real 03:40
7. I and I 03:20
8. That Constant 04:50

Group Tightener:

"4 e and a is about the infinite spaces between. As a classically trained percussionist, Raffa sat in front of a metronome for the majority of their life. And in their mind, they would play with the spaces between those clicks. In especially challenging times, Ryan would attempt to expand and stretch those spaces into forever. Just existing in the between. This record is about these moments (and places) when we are living in those infinite spaces.

That time of intense musical focus was also Ryan's first introduction to an analog synthesizer. As a teenager, their drum teacher was Herb Flower, an incredible human with light beams of creative energy pouring out of him and his musical family at all times. A parent of another student of Mr. Flower’s was an electrical engineer who had recently been laid off during large cutbacks at Carrier, one of the major employers at that time in Syracuse where Raffa grew up. This parent, with their newly acquired free time, hand-built a drum machine, housed in a large wooden cabinet with 8 or so unmarked knobs, and they gave this synthesizer to Mr. Flower. The sound from that machine was glorious. And Mr. Flower, their drum teacher, would turn a few knobs, make a pattern and have me play along with it during rehearsal. These moments were such a gift, and I know those moments are still reverberating today. Raffa thinks about that time of experimentation, of exploration, of shared love of sound and music as a place that they can go to, a place we can all go to, whenever we choose. "

Artist : Ryan J Raffa

Label : Group Tightener