New Days, by For Barry Ray

New Days

by For Barry Ray

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Original 5 panel fold out, matte laminate and monochrome printing

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1.	Through Holes, Glass & Stone 04:46	buy track
2.	David 03:12	buy track
3.	A Dark Blue Heat 06:02	buy track
4.	Aurora, Dancing... 04:41	buy track
5.	Hummingway 04:23	buy track
6.	The Porcelain Horse 01:27	buy track
7.	If Mingus Was Your Mother 01:50	buy track
8.	Morgonstund 02:42	buy track
9.	Blending Light 08:48	buy track

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For Barry Ray is the husband and wife duo of Carina Thorén (Sweden) and John Chantler (Australia). After a number of compilation appearances, long gone CDrs and lathe cut records under various guises, the pair bunked down over the winter of 06/07 to lay the foundations for ‘New Days’, kicking off things Christmas morning with the gift of a London turned silent and a sky free of planes.

On ‘New Days’, the sound moves from the wash of organs and lofi analog detail that opens the record to ecstatic blasts of freeform percussion and electronics, some hypnotic distorted keyboards and looped flute tones. Dom Garwood (Alexander Tucker/Ladywoodsman et al) dropped by for a meal and laid down some clarinet parts. The records second half increases the sense of space. An old Swedish folk melody is buried beneath waves of fuzz while Loren Connors-esque guitar notes step gently in the wake. Two short interludes follow, the thrum and pause of ‘The Porcelain Horse’s analog tape manipulations and the heavily processed guitar loop of ‘If Mingus was your Mother’ - its intimately suggested backbeat gently peeled back by computer interventions… The record closes with a piece of extended quietitude – acoustic guitar and piano notes ring out against great chunks of silence.

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released April 30, 2007

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