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Birkirkara

by Andy Ray

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Gradiend Fields 02:35
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Siam Blues 04:15
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Parrots Afternoon - Mandala in Your Hands 09:12
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Mercurial Chronicles 02:32
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Find Andy Rays' music on:
andyray.bandcamp.com/music

Tracklist:

01 Gradiend Fields 02:35
02 Siam Blues 04:15
03 Parrots Afternoon - Mandala In Your Hands 09:12
04 Mercurial Chronicles 02:32

Check out this video about the making of Birkirkara: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSiGlLyze9Y

In the making of his album "Birkirkara," Andy Ray enlisted the help of talented freelance musicians from around the world to bring his vision to life. While he wrote the songs himself, Andy Ray collaborated with these musicians to add their expertise and unique touch to the record. Via Red Light Studio, the Greek avant-garde experimentalist ensured high fidelity in capturing his guitar tapes and incorporated jam mood overdubs from the talented freelancers.

His album, Birkirkara, is an immersion in Eastern meets Western rhythm, inspired by Kikagaku Moyo and Khruangbin, with an Eastern-Greek take on Tarantino’s cinematic vibes. The winding guitars, atmospheric percussive builds, harmonica fills, and sitar strings entwine into a mesmerising amalgam, unruly to constrictive traditional structuring.

The EP has been remastered as proof that nothing is impossible in the competitive and capitalist music industry, where budgets are barriers, but art and expression will always manifest and triumph.

The EP features German Perez Bottesi & Indiana Drones on bass, Epilef Terier & AnestisPsaltoy on drums, Chithrinie Nirupama on sitar, Hector Alexander on harmonica, and the vocalist Kanako Jones, in addition to Andy Ray on vocals and guitar.

Andy Ray said: “The naive playing of Syd Barrett really got me, and that flows through this EP. I chose an album without a metronome for an experimental shaky style. The background heat from the Only Lovers Left Alive soundtrack inspired this EP, along with a lot of influence from the past and modern psychedelic bands from the Californian new wave scene.”

Amelia Vandergast, the Executive Editor at A&R Factory said:
“Andy Ray broke the monocultural mould with Birkirkara. The Eastern infusion alongside the bleeding cinematic Western tones created a feat of sonic beguile that few can authentically rival.”

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released September 26, 2021

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German Perez Bottesi Bass
Indiana Drones Bass
Epilef Terier Drums
Anestis Psaltoy Drums
Chithrinie Nirupama Sitar
Hector Alexander Harmonica
Kanako Jones Vocals
Guitars / Vocals Andy Ray

Mix / Master Rokhai
Produced by Andy Ray

All songs © & ℗ 2021 Adreas Rozos

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