Raymond Byron - Bond Wire Cur

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: ESP5051LP
Barcode: 0825481505116
Release Date: 24 Jun 2022
Genre: Folk/Americana

In a two-decade career, Raymond Byron Magic Raposa has recorded six albums as Castanets, another as Raymond Byron and the White Freighter, and has worked with musicians ranging from Annie Clark (St. Vincent), Matthew Houck (Phosphorescent), and Sufjan Stevens to Liz Janes, Jana Hunter, Nathan Hubbard (Trummerflora, Cosmologic), and John McCauley (Deer Tick). Over the course of that time, his music has been called part of the New Weird America movement, freak-folk, psychedelic folk, and indie folk. Bond Wire Cur is as surreal and desolate and haunting as anything he’s done. Collaborators on the album are many (Cory Gray, Erik Clampitt, Pony Domer, Jason Stinson, Lauren K. Newman, Kimba Kuzas, Ron Burns, Paula Barry, Coty Dolores Miranda, Josh Cole), 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.

TRACKLISTING
Side A
1. How It Ends
2. Vaya
3. Paris Trout
4. Colima
5. There in the Loam
6. Polly
7. Emma
8. Cyclone Fence
9. No Joke
10. I Don't Captain
11. Gone Rider Spur

Side B
1. Polly 2 (Sparrow)
2. Old Unconscious
3. Benediction Mountain
4. Bond Wire Cur
5. Before What's Left of Our Minds Go
6. Yea That I Walk
7. Wings of a Dove
8. Lope
9. Next Trick