Raymond Richards

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Raymond RichardsRaymond Richards is a Portland, OR-based composer & producer working from his Red Rockets Glare studio. His extensive producing & engineering credits include Local Natives’ Gorilla Manor & Hummingbird, LCD Soundsystem’s American Dream, & Blitzen Trapper’s Holy Smokes Future Jokes.As a multi-instrumentalist and member of Mojave 3, Idaho Falls, & The Parson Red Heads, Raymond has toured the world.The Lost Art Of Wandering, released 22 May 20201. DENTON, TEXAS2. FOSSIL, OREGON3. TUCSON, ARIZONA4. LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA5. ASTORIA, OREGON6. ROSLYN, WASHINGTON7. IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO8. PARADISE, CALIFORNIAIn the late 90’s, east-side LA was in the throws of a post-indie explosion; a network of stoned bands ranging from neo-psychedelia to pseudo-country overran Spaceland (our generation’s Troubadour) and the local Silverlake Lounge. I was playing freakbeat records twice a week in dive bars, half of Spacemen 3 was crashing at my house (my drop-out roommate was Sonic Boom’s tour drummer) and it was during this blur that I met Raymond Richards, a clean-cut all-American pedal steel guitarist playing in Mojave 3 (the country-tinged 4AD side project of shoegaze royalty, Slowdive). I was instantly swept off my feet, head over heels in love with Raymond's weeping tone — the most chill-inducing, emotionally responsive dialog I’d had with music since discovering Satie as a child — it was then and it is now, truly haunting. After a year of personnel trials, my roommate and I stole Raymond for our own band, and not only did he smother our songs with his enchanting steel, he was virtuosic with a variety of atypical instruments such as baritone guitar and theremin, he utilized them all. The band was short-lived — I split to jam with Ariel Pink, Raymond fled to Portland, then me subsequently to New York City — but in founding the ESP Institute years later, there was always a recurring mental note; "we must make Raymond’s pedal steel album." I had managed to wrangle his blessed performance on a remix for Project Club’s 'El Mar Y La Luna', but it took almost a decade until I once again wore the producer hat and we began working on 'The Lost Art Of Wandering', a title borrowed from Sam Shepard’s 'Stories'. Spiritually candid, expansive yet enveloping, this is the strung-out, visceral country music that simply radiates from Raymond. Each song is his set of coordinates in a vast open terrain, holding a sentimental familiarity, a truthful longing for the simple comforts that diffuse life’s complications, a place to get lost.—Lovefingers

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