Current Events, My New 8 Song Ambient Instrumental EP, Is Now Available For Purchase!!


Hello Everyone, 

Happy to announce NEW MUSIC for autumn! This was a labor of love. Please read this whole post to get a sense of what my intentions were and why I'm offering this.

My 8 Song Ambient Instrumental (DIGITAL ONLY) EP, Current EVENTS, is now available for purchase and download HERE:  

http://matthewryan.bandcamp.com/album/current-events 

Follow Bandcamp's instructions upon purchasing, their download system is quite simple, just follow their instructions. Bandcamp also offers unlimited streaming via their Bandcamp App upon purchasing. If you pre-ordered and haven't received your Download Link, PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDERS!

This is a digital only release, there will be no hard copies printed at this time! 


 


HERE'S A SHORT EXPLANATION OF WHY I'M OFFERING THIS: 

Autumn is my favorite time of year, so vivid and constantly changing in air and look. I love the stark winters that follow up here where I'm living in Western Pennsylvania. Hills and rivers and trains, steel bridges and old architecture. And even still, the constant incoming of technology and information and the election. The troubles around the world and the country, the stresses and dissonance, and the seeming suddenness we've come to know so well. I wanted to make a companion to all that cinema. But I wanted it to operate without hype or force. Current EVENTS is offered to be experienced at a quieter to mid-level volume, it welcomes the ambient noise of wherever you live or what you're doing without invading your thoughts. It's intent is almost a soundtracking to you being leading women and men. Like Tom Waits said "All broken down by the side of the road, I never felt more alive and alone." That's what I tried to do here, to connect with those moments that sprawl. It's driving music, driving to work or stores or nowhere. Music for leaving and music for arriving. It's late night music, or rush hour music. Music for falling in love and being alone. Music for interiors. Music to make your friends worry about you... Hahahaha...  

I've loved the ambient work of Brian Eno, and the instrumental work of Ryuichi Sakamoto for years. The Cinema Paradiso pieces by Ennio Morricone have been constant companions for me since forever now. I've often thought instrumental music was the most generous music because it imposed no dialogue. It's pure, and allows each of us to immerse ourselves in our own stories and plots and beauties and aches. I've often found that some of my best lyric writing comes after a period of listening to a lot of instrumental music. Almost as if the absence of language reconnects me to my own interior. That's what I hope this collection offers to you. I don't pretend to be as proficient at this type of music as the artists I mentioned above, or even as my friends in Hammock and Our Ceasing Voice. I am a tourist when it comes to this. I don't consider myself a composer or even a particular gifted arranger. But I am a pretty good at offering weather via sound and simplicity, and I love the process. Hopefully these pieces become ladders and ropes and hallways to your own thoughts. Ultimately, that's the goal. Again, at its root, I hope this collection offers you yourself. That's why there's no voice or language on Current EVENTS. I wanted you to hear your own voice here. It's my guess that that's what a song should always be doing, because in ourselves we find each other. 

Above all I hope you enjoy this music, that it becomes a good companion.  

All the best, always... 

Matthew Ryan