Ray Lynch

   
Artist: Ray Lynch

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Best Of Ray Lynch

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 13


   
 No Blue Thing

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 7


   
 Deep Breakfast

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 8


   
 The Sky of Mind

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 6


   
 Truth Is The Only Profound

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 11


   
 Nothing Above My Shoulders But The Evening

   Year:    
Tracks: 7

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Though he's one of the well-nigh influential artists in "new age bolt down" and adult alternate circles, Lynch has extensive formal music training. Inspired by Andres Segovia's classical guitar recordings, Lynch studied the cat's-paw in Barcelona, Spain, in the former '60s. He later attended the University of Texas as a penning educatee. Toward the end of the decennium, Lynch touched to New York and became a fixity in the city's "other music" shot as a lutanist with Renaissance Quartette. A geological period of personal and religious crisis, nonetheless, light-emitting diode him to retreat from his career in formal classical medicine. He touched to California, spent some time investigating various ghostly traditions and philosophies, and started experimenting with electronic music. His 1983 debut record album, The Sky of Mind, artfully meshed his early classical music leanings with spatial, synthesized orchestrations and became an underground success with well-nigh no promotional support. Two years later, he released his most renowned record album, Deep Breakfast. While lots of the record album continued in a neoclassical mineral vein (with some lyrical duets for viola and keyboards, among other things), Lynch's tricky tune, "Celestial Soda Pop," became a hit in the new emerging WAVE wireless formats. The record album was unrivalled of the first new age releases to trade over five hundred,000 copies. While Lynch's later albums make their moments, his increasingly pop-oriented style lost the expressive volume of his earlier work. Though, many listeners were attracted to his vibrant electronic textures and heartrending melodies.