The Lost Art Of Wandering, by Raymond Richards

The Lost Art Of Wandering

by Raymond Richards

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howlerchj Just a beautiful body of work. Hats off.

kenny wisdom Hard to pick a favourite but this is doing it this morning folks..x
Favorite track: PARADISE, CALIFORNIA.

yemib Cet album est complètement magique.
Transportée comme dans un rêve. Merci pour ce voyage intérieur.

This album is completely magical. Transported as in a dream. Thank you for this interior travel. Favorite track: PARADISE, CALIFORNIA.

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1.	DENTON, TEXAS 05:38	buy track
2.	FOSSIL, OREGON 04:27	buy track
3.	TUCSON, ARIZONA 03:21	buy track
4.	LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA 05:40	buy track
5.	ASTORIA, OREGON 04:08	buy track
6.	ROSLYN, WASHINGTON 04:28	buy track
7.	IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO 03:29	buy track
8.	PARADISE, CALIFORNIA 05:41	buy track

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***RESTOCKING – NEW ORDERS SHIPPING JULY 10

In the late 90’s, east-side LA was in the throws of a post-indie explosion; a network of stoned bands ranging from neo-psychedelia to pseudo-country overran Spaceland (our generation’s Troubadour) and the local Silverlake Lounge. I was playing freakbeat records twice a week in dive bars, half of Spacemen 3 was crashing at my house (my drop-out roommate was Sonic Boom’s tour drummer) and it was during this blur that I met Raymond Richards, a clean-cut all-American pedal steel guitarist playing in Mojave 3 (the country-tinged 4AD side project of shoegaze royalty, Slowdive). I was instantly swept off my feet, head over heels in love with Raymond's weeping tone — the most chill-inducing, emotionally responsive dialog I’d had with music since discovering Satie as a child — it was then and it is now, truly haunting. After a year of personnel trials, my roommate and I stole Raymond for our own band, and not only did he smother our songs with his enchanting steel, he was virtuosic with a variety of atypical instruments such as baritone guitar and theremin, he utilized them all. The band was short-lived — I split to jam with Ariel Pink, Raymond fled to Portland, then me subsequently to New York City — but in founding the ESP Institute years later, there was always a recurring mental note; "we must make Raymond’s pedal steel album." I had managed to wrangle his blessed performance on a remix for Project Club’s 'El Mar Y La Luna', but it took almost a decade until I once again wore the producer hat and we began working on 'The Lost Art Of Wandering', a title borrowed from Sam Shepard’s 'Stories'. Spiritually candid, expansive yet enveloping, this is the strung-out, visceral country music that simply radiates from Raymond. Each song is his set of coordinates in a vast open terrain, holding a sentimental familiarity, a truthful longing for the simple comforts that diffuse life’s complications, a place to get lost.
—Lovefingers

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released May 22, 2020

Produced by Lovefingers. Written by Raymond Richards. Recorded by Raymond Richards at Long Play Recording and Fremont Recording in Portland Oregon. All instruments by Raymond Richards except; Brud Giles - Drums, Jean-Pierre Garau - Piano and organ on Fossil, OR and Idaho Falls, ID. Cover image - Barbara & Michael Leisgen, Eintauchen [detail], 1972.

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