Songwriter’s family stars in “Lost in a Sound,” from cosmic
country “Choses Obscures,” out now. Artist
plays L.A.’s Hotel Café on Sept. 12th.
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Ryan Traster as photographed by Kimberly Traster
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Ryan Traster
| In The Press
Ryan Traster’s second album ‘will transport you to the haziest dog
days of summer” (Americana Highways)
with his “thoroughly enjoyable fusion of country and power pop” (Glide Magazine) that adds up to a
“lyrically impressive and soncially mesmerizing album” (The Big Takeover). Traster’s
unique voice “cuts straight to the chase, brushes cheeks with brashness, and
makes no apologies. Traster’s best album yet.” (Minneapolis City
Paper).
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“My family recently moved to Joshua Tree, which has
been a decade long dream of mine. We made this video together, with the idea of
capturing where the exploratory and grounding aspects of your lives are meeting
right now, which fits right in with the theme of the song, which is a look at
the cyclical nature of chasing the muse. Whether that be art or love, it can
have the ability to act as both the source and savior,” explains Ryan Traster.
See the video for “Lost in a Sound” at Americana Highways or at the link below!
See the video for “Lost in a Sound” at Americana Highways or at the link below!
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Ryan
Traster
Choses
Obscures
(Slow Start Records)
Out Now
Full Album Stream:
Track Listing:
01. Old World Present Tense
02. New Again (STREAM | MP3)
03. How Dark It's Been
04. Lost in a Sound (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)
05. Libra
07. Kansas
08. Busy Mind Lazy Mouth
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Ryan Traster | Live
09/12/2019: Los Angeles, CA @ Hotel Café
11/05/2019: Nashville, TN @ The Basement
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Ryan Traster
| About
The new album by formerly Minneapolis-based – now relocated
to Joshua Tree – singer-songwriter Ryan
Traster 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.
Choses Obscures, the new full-length album by Ryan
Traster, is out now via 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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