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Bond Wire Cur

by Raymond Byron

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    cover art by Yuko Otomo

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How It Ends 01:12
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Vaya 01:04
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Paris Trout 01:49
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Colima 01:43
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Polly 02:41
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Emma 02:11
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No Joke 01:47
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Lope 01:11
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Next Trick 02:24

about

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Ray. Hard to believe we will never hear his gravelly voice on the phone again. He wasn't just an artist, he was a friend. R.I.P.

Bond Wire Cur is as surreal and desolate and haunting as anything he’s done. Collaborators on the album are many, yet the sound of the record is stripped-down and stark. It is a crucial chapter in his career and in ESP-Disk’s Drive to Revive Weird Rock.

QUOTES: “Strong and weird. Using ancient ingredients these little vignettes grow sneakily large and become some new kind of food. It’s beautiful and Ray’s finest record yet.” – Matthew Houck (Phosphorescent) re: Bond Wire Cur

“Raposa's skill as a singer and a lyricist are inextricably linked. His voice has a drifting, spectral quality that's perfectly suited to his overlapping images. Like John Ashbery, he's able to sustain pointed ambiguity for the duration of a composition, talking all around the thing without saying it.” – Brian Howe, Pitchfork, re: Castanets’ First Light’s Freeze

credits

released June 17, 2022

contributing musicians: Cory Gray, Erik Clampitt, Pony Domer, Jason Stinson, Lauren K. Newman, Kimba Kuzas, Ron Burns, Paula Barry, Coty Dolores Miranda, Josh Cole

Produced and engineered by Cory Gray at Old Unconscious
Mastered by Rafter Roberts
Additional tracking via the Tragedy House and Hollow Ltd.

Cover art: #3 by Yuko Otomo (graphite, 2015)

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