Dead Kennedys’ guitarist East Bay Ray’s electronic/ambient music release Labyrinth will be available Sept. 15 on iTunes, eMusic, Napster, Rhapsody and other music download sites. Four of the tracks can be heard on East Bay Ray’s MySpace page. The CD version will be in stores Nov 17.
The tracks on “Labyrinth” show an alternate side of East Bay Ray, but this side would not surprise fans familiar with the more psychedelic sounds of his playing with Dead Kennedys. The recordings are a collection of material from different times and places. Some were recorded on tape through analog equipment, with all the warm character and random sounds that materialize around the edges of analog, even a little white-noise tape hiss. Others were recorded digitally and then processed and manipulated later. Several of the tracks started out as improvisations, while others were composed or edited into compositions. Though mostly instrumental, there is one work with a vocal. The tracks embody different characteristic, such as 6/4 time, polyrhythms, modal harmonies, and tape-manipulation techniques.
Link to: iTunes Store - East Bay Ray - Labyrinth