No Blue Thing

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No Blue Thing
No Blue Thing cover
Studio album by Ray Lynch
Released 1989
Genre New Age
Adult Alternative
Length 39:21
Label Ray Lynch Productions
Windham Hill Records
Producer(s) Ray Lynch Productions
Professional reviews

All Music Guide: "Once again this meticulous artist has produced a sublime album of sensitive and deep compositions and sophisticated yet uncluttered arrangements."

Ray Lynch chronology
Deep Breakfast
(1984)
No Blue Thing
(1989)
Nothing Above My Shoulders but the Evening
(1993)


No Blue Thing won two Billboard Awards[1] and is Ray Lynch’s third album.

Contents

[edit] Album

[edit] Track listing

  1. "No Blue Thing" – 5:35
  2. "Clouds Below Your Knees" – 4:40
  3. "Here & Never Found" – 4:44
  4. "Drifted in a Deeper Land" – 7:22
  5. "Homeward at Last" – 3:38
  6. "Evenings, Yes" – 4:52
  7. "The True Spirit of Mom & Dad" – 8:05

[edit] Personnel

All music composed, arranged, and produced by Ray Lynch.

  • Ray Lynch: keyboards, classical guitar
  • Tom Canning: "guitar" keyboards on #2
  • Timothy Day: Flute
  • Julie Ann Giacobassi: Oboe and English Horn
  • Amy Hiraga: Violin
  • David Kadarauch and Peter Wyrick: Cello
  • Basil Vendryes and Geraldine Walther: Viola

[edit] Production

  • Mastered by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, CA.
  • Mixed by Ray Lynch & Daniel Ryman at Ray Lynch Productions studio except for “Evenings, Yes” (Recorded at Different Fur, San Francisco, CA.; engineered by Howard Johnston; mixed at Mobius, San Francisco, CA.)


[edit] Sheet Music

Ray Lynch has produced a piano anthology, Ray Lynch Anthology, featuring selected pieces. The book presents each piece in standard notation for both hands, and also features a short interview. It includes three pieces from No Blue Thing: No Blue Thing, Here & Never Found, Homeward At Last, and Evenings, Yes.


[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ All Music Guide