No Blue Thing
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No Blue Thing is Ray Lynch
’s third album. It won two Billboard Awards
, featuring selected pieces. The book presents each piece in standard notation for both hands, and also features a short interview. It includes four pieces from No Blue Thing: "No Blue Thing", "Here & Never Found", "Homeward at Last" and "Evenings, Yes".
Ray Lynch
Raymond "Ray" Lynch is a classically trained guitarist and lutenist. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to a musical and artistic family. His mother was a classical pianist and watercolor artist. At age 6, Lynch began studying the piano until age 12, where he was inspired by the music of Andres...
’s third album. It won two Billboard Awards
Track listing
- "No Blue Thing" – 5:35
- "Clouds Below Your Knees" – 4:40
- "Here & Never Found" – 4:44
- "Drifted in a Deeper Land" – 7:22
- "Homeward at Last" – 3:38
- "Evenings, Yes" – 4:52
- "The True Spirit of Mom & Dad" – 8:05
Personnel
All music composed, arranged, and produced by Ray Lynch.- Ray Lynch – keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, classical guitarClassical guitarThe classical guitar is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones... - Tom Canning – "guitar" keyboards on "Clouds Below Your Knees"
- Timothy Day – fluteFluteThe flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
- Julie Ann Giacobassi – oboeOboeThe oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois" , "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca...
and English horn - Amy Hiraga – violinViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
- David Kadarauch and Peter Wyrick – celloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
- Basil Vendryes and Geraldine Walther – violaViolaThe viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
Production
- Mastered by Bernie Grundman (Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, California)
- Mixed by Ray Lynch and Daniel Ryman at Ray Lynch Productions studio except for “Evenings, Yes” (Recorded at Different Fur, San Francisco; engineered by Howard Johnston; mixed at Mobius, San Francisco)
Sheet music
Ray Lynch has produced a piano anthology, Ray Lynch AnthologyRay Lynch Anthology
Ray Lynch Anthology is a compilation of sheet music for piano, featuring selected pieces from the albums of Ray Lynch. The book presents each piece in standard notation for both hands, and also features a short interview...
, featuring selected pieces. The book presents each piece in standard notation for both hands, and also features a short interview. It includes four pieces from No Blue Thing: "No Blue Thing", "Here & Never Found", "Homeward at Last" and "Evenings, Yes".