Hear
Jesus and Mary Chain name-dropping
deep cut from “Choses Obscures” (French for “obscure things”) now. Album
out July 19th.
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Ryan Traster as photographed by Kimberly Traster
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Ryan Traster | “Endless
Summer Blues”
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Ryan
Traster
Choses
Obscures
(Slow Start Records)
July 19th, 2019
Track Listing:
01. Old World Present Tense
02. New Again
03. How Dark It's Been
04. Lost In A Sound
05. Libra
07. Kansas
08. Busy Mind Lazy Mouth
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Ryan Traster
| In The Press
“Catchy, classic folk-rock tunes.” — 89.3 The Current (Minnesota Public
Radio)
“A folk-country gem teeming with wanderlust and
impeccable vocals.” — Vita.mn
“Cuts straight to the chase, brushes cheeks with
brashness, and makes no apologies.” — City
Pages (Minneapolis)
“Evokes comparisons to Grant Lee Phillips or Josh
Ritter.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune
“An extremely impressive slice of Americana.” — My Old Kentucky Blog
“Warm, folk-influenced pop that’s likely to appeal to Jayhawks fans.” — St. Paul Pioneer Press
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Ryan Traster
| About
The upcoming new album by Minneapolis-based
singer-songwriter Ryan Traster (July 19th, Slow Start Records) features that warm,
worn-in vibe of an album that’s been in your cool parents record collection
since you were a kid. Eventually, it gets passed down to you to take along into
“the real world” and is there when you need to be reminded of being a kid
again.
It’s that gem of a find in a milk crate of vinyl at
the local tag sale on a Sunday afternoon. The kind of album that becomes an
all-time favorite, only discovered there by the person who knows what they’re
looking for and has the time to dig for it.
Choses Obscures (the title translates from French as “obscure things,” and implies a
“dark energy”) is both of those things, and that implied darkness provides a
subtle mask that contrasts and deepens the sunny images above.
When Traster
throws curve balls with lyrics of places and times that don’t abide the most
famed of singer-songwriter eras (the kind that even the album’s cover art
evokes), things get real.
It comes as a jaw-dropping surprise to hear
Jesus and Mary Chain name-dropped on
“Endless Summer Blues” when Traster sings, “We were living in Echo
Park / I was smoking dope in the backyard / You were listening to all those Mary Chain records / We had the endless
summer blues.”
According to Traster,
the album’s cosmic-country, straight outta Laurel Canyon feel is heavily
influenced by Skip Spence, Bert Jansch, and Judee Sill, all of whom passed before their time. That “beyond the
grave” murkiness pervades Traster’s
lyrics in a profound way, even down to that JAMC reference.
Choses Obscures is “born from the subconscious in troubled times, both personally and
globally,” Traster explains.
“I wrote a good chunk of this record while traveling
the east coast, following a few years of international touring,” he says. “I
ended up in Nashville, going to dive bars alone, and hanging out in a dingy
bedroom.”
After that long world-wide stretch on stage, Traster was actually unable to perform
when he got to Nashville, as he had sustained a vocal cord injury on the road.
“My focus was solely on crafting the best material I
could with the plan to record it when I regained full health,” he says.
It was a dark period for Traster, but he managed to find inspiration while working at
Nashville’s world famous Ryman
Auditorium, where “listening to old timer’s tales, and being submerged in
song, helped me create what I believe is my best material to date.”
Choses Obscures, the second full-length album by Ryan
Traster, arrives July 19th
from Slow Start Records. Ryan Traster is available for
interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
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Ryan
Traster | Links
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion | Contact
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