Raymond Richards – Sand Paintings LP
Expected shipping week of May 6th
Raymond Richards returns to the ESP Institute with another pedal steel driven Western, dream-state trip. This time with a cast of players including Calexico’s John Convertino on drums and percussion, a bevy of eccentric stringed instruments and even a hint of brass to collectively stratify context for the pedal steel.
“Through diversifying the timbral palette, we invite an increased soundstage acuity but also reveal untapped wells of emotion for the listener, perhaps even testing cultural literacies. One foot remains in our established ambient realm, while the other steps toward grand cinematic gestures, and despite the dense, insurmountable emotion in these songs, there is a stoic singularity, like a lonesome cowboy pulling up his boot straps to endure another day.” – Lovefingers