Rain Down Fire by Rick Graham

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

I'm doing a lot of emailing tonight
and listening to tracks from the brand new release of
Northern Irish live looping artist,  Ricky Graham,  "Rain Down Fire".

I'm really thoroughly enjoying this record.   It's really sonicaly 
sophisticated
with really delicious choices of timbre in the excellent and 
professional production.

It's also really cool because Ricky has taken on several different 
styles of
pop music and made largely instrumental tracks.

He goes from dreamy ambient-ish trip hop to industrial tracks to drum 
and bass in a way
that, amazingly,  all feels coherent despite large stylistic leaps.

The biggest compliment I can give to this really wonderful outing
by a young musician (currently doing his Masters Thesis on Live Looping, 
by the way)
is that these tracks would be fantastic tracks to add pop vocals to.

In fact, it would be awesome if he were to do a follow up EP by giving 
these
tracks to some really good singer/songwriters and just have them write 
lyrics
and record them.   The tracks are just that good!

Check it out.

http://www.rickygraham.net/