Ray, by Ashley Paul

Ray

by Ashley Paul

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bartel hulst Thanks for the magical concert @ Rewire festival, sept 11th 2021.
Love, Anka & Bartel

Gavin Hellyer Pretty well neo-classical and typically fascinating work from Ashley. Very good indeed. Favorite track: Little Butterfly.

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1.	Star Over Sand 03:33	buy track
2.	Blue Skies Green Trees 03:06	buy track
3.	Little Butterfly 04:30	buy track
4.	Garden Walk 02:44	buy track
5.	Choices 06:56	buy track
6.	Cross The Ocean 02:26	buy track
7.	Light Inside My Skin 03:14	buy track
8.	Darkest Hour 03:25	buy track
9.	Lost Memories 04:09	buy track
10.	No End 04:00	buy track

about

'Ray' is Ashley Paul's bright, sensual return to Slip: a lifting, delighting suite of yearning winds, loose beats, and cocooning, humid bass coming together and falling apart as songs.

The LP airs Paul's new trio, alongside bass clarinettist Yoni Silver and bassist Otto Willberg, who fatten out and shine light on her singularly intimate, multi-instrumental with mystery and grace. 2018's 'Lost In Shadows' wrote into the bewildering ecstasy of recent motherhood with a tingling resolve. On 'Ray' - recorded remotely during lockdown - Paul's deliciously hesitant songcraft is an outpouring and an anchor in freshly tumultuous times.

Says Ashley:

Over the past six months I've found myself needing music in a new way, a way of coping. I found again albums I had loved in the past, full of melody and humour, to cancel out the barrage of terrible news happening outside. I think this album is a reflection of that need. There is the playfulness of spending my days with our four year old, and the hours spent tending to plants in the garden and examining bugs, and also the pain of missing family and friends. It’s hard for me to fully comprehend the breadth of emotion I've felt recently but maybe this is a small window.

The trio idea had been formulating in my head for months, and then lockdown happened. At first I was very disappointed and thought I'd be waiting forever to finally make it a reality, but time passed. I started working on a new album and could only hear it with these guys. We recorded remotely. I sent material in a variety of ways; written, aurally and verbal ideas/queues, sometimes with just a shell of a track and other times nearly completed. I wanted all our voices to be present, and to allow freedom in the parts for interpretation and improvisation. Maybe because we've all worked together in various situations and are friends, I’m not sure, but it came together naturally, magically and quickly.

'Ray' [SLP060] is available from November 2020 on LP and download. Painting by Gayle Paul. Design by Ashley Paul. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Distributed by Boomkat.

credits

released November 25, 2020

Ashley Paul - voice, alto saxophone, clarinet, guitar, percussion
Yoni Silver - bass clarinet
Otto Willberg - double bass

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Painting by Gayle Paul
Design by Ashley Paul

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Ashley Paul Asheville, North Carolina

"...a songwriter with a diaristic, private and flexible sense of what a song is.”

– The New York Times

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nathan@33-33.co

discography

I Am Fog

Jun 2022
Window Flower

May 2022
RAY - Another Sand

Nov 2021
RAY

Oct 2021
Ray

Nov 2020
Heat Source

Oct 2020
Line The Clouds

Oct 2020
Lost In Shadows

Apr 2018

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