Ray Lynch: Best Of, Volume One
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Ray Lynch: Best Of, Volume One is Ray Lynch
's fifth album and includes three new music tracks. All tracks have been digitally remastered.
, featuring selected pieces. The book presents each piece in standard notation for both hands, and also features a short interview. It includes two pieces that appear on Ray Lynch Best Of, Volume One: "Celestial Soda Pop" and "Kathleen's Song".
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 fifth album and includes three new music tracks. All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Track listing
- "Ralph’s Rhapsody" – 4:43
- "The Music of What Happens" – 4:04
- "The Oh of Pleasure" – 5:22
- "Celestial Soda Pop" – 4:40
- "Clouds Below Your Knees" – 4:54
- "The Vanished Gardens of Córdoba" – 8:24
- "The True Spirit of Mom & Dad" – 8:06
- "The Temple" – 8:03
- "Her Knees Deep in Your Mind" – 6:18
- "Kathleen’s Song" – 4:08
- "Tiny Geometries" – 6:06
- "Rio Clarifies" – 0:06
- "Celestial Soda Pop [Remix]" – 4:09
Personnel
All music composed, arranged, and produced by Ray Lynch except "The Oh of Pleasure" which is co–written with Tom Canning.- 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...
- Mel McMurrin – sampled voices
- John Gregory – 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....
improvisationImprovisationImprovisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings. This can result in the invention of new thought patterns, new practices, new structures or symbols, and/or...
s - Tom Canning – Prophet 5 keyboards
- 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...
- David Kadarauch – 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...
- 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 - Glen Fishthal – trumpetTrumpetThe trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
, flugelhornFlugelhornThe flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...
and piccolo trumpetPiccolo trumpetThe smallest of the trumpet family is the piccolo trumpet, pitched one octave higher than the standard B trumpet. Most piccolo trumpets are built to play in either B or A, using a separate leadpipe for each key. The tubing in the B piccolo trumpet is one-half the length of that in a standard B... - 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...
- David Krehbiel – French horn
- Daniel KobialkaDaniel KobialkaDaniel Kobialka, founded LiSem Enterprises Inc., in 1985 and created Wonder of Sound in 2009. Inspired by his time performing with major symphonies such as The Boston Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, and the San Francisco Symphony, and a desire to showcase violin music in a way it had not been...
– violin - Nancy Severance – 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...
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 two pieces that appear on Ray Lynch Best Of, Volume One: "Celestial Soda Pop" and "Kathleen's Song".