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Vintage Astronaut

by Vintage Astronaut

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Eventually 07:40
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Former Glory 07:42
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Improv 3.0 05:09
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Perceptions 09:02
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Goat Dick Tattoo 05:36
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Frank the Boat 05:13
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Urban Camping Revelations vol.1 10:02
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Lost Art of Chivalry 10:17
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Waffle TIme 09:26
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F'lanyap 09:26
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about

This is music that catalogs the last 10 years of my life. I’ve played in cover bands and done pickup jazz gigs for a long time, and I’m sick of playing cover tunes. Especially the same 50 songs that get called on every gig. I started playing at Southside in Winston-Salem with the intention of building something unique, and part of that vision is using the session as a creative outlet for my compositions, and those of my friends. I wanted to write tunes that have interesting and unique improvisatory possibilities, and then learn them and hone them live so we can improvise with them as fluently as the jazz tunes we’ve all been playing for years.

This album marks the end of an era for me, and the beginning of new one. I wrote the oldest of these tunes in 2008, while I was on tour with a beach music band. ‘Perceptions’ was written after I discovered the Brian Blade Fellowship album ‘Perceptual.’ I listened to the record 3 times in a row on the tour bus, and then picked up a bass and sketched out the melody to ‘Perceptions.’

Waffle Time was written shortly after that. While I was eating a belgian waffle with Nutella and ice cream on top, the form just came to me and I pulled out a pad and write it down. I still have the original in my notebook, complete with Nutella stains.

This album was recorded in one night. I booked the band weekly for the whole month, expecting to compile the record from the best takes from all four shows, but the magic happened in one night, in one set. With the exception of Waffle Time (the recording stopped mid-way through that tune and I had to use a take from the other set that night) and a little editing, this album is a continuous recording. The vibe was just right, the crowd was into it, and like the best recordings - the magic was there. There are plenty of mistakes recorded on here, but that’s part of the vibe and trying to fix them would take away from the record in my opinion. This is pure- this is a documentation of what I’ve been trying to say with my music for the last 10 years. I can happily close this chapter now and move on.

-John

credits

released April 12, 2019

// Jonathan Greene, drums
// Daniel Serrif, guitar
// Matt Kosma, tenor sax
// Michael Kinchen, keys
// John Daniel Ray, bass

Recorded live on August 4, 2018 at Southside Beer Garden in Winston-Salem, NC
All songs composed by John Daniel Ray ©2019 Mr. Haircut ASCAP *except 'Former Glory' and 'Lost Art of Chivalry' by Michael Kinchen
Art by Suzanna Ritz ©2018
videos by Daniel Fox Johnston @stillframestorytelling www.stillframestorytelling.com
Produced by Mr. Haircut ©2019

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Vintage Astronaut Winston Salem, North Carolina

Featuring: the thoughtful rhythmic musings of celebrated master percussionist Jonathan Collin Greene, the harmonic wonders of avant synthesist Michael Kinchen, and led by heroic captain and digital/analog low frequency pioneer John Daniel Ray. This music will literally rearrange the molecular configurations in your body to a more harmonious state and thus erase greed and hatred from the world. ... more

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