Light From a Curious Sky, by Ryan McIntosh Ryan

Light From a Curious Sky

by Ryan McIntosh Ryan

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1.	Looking Down 03:26	buy track
2.	Mandrake 03:15	buy track
3.	Street Reflections 02:48	buy track
4.	Argyle Maroon Beam 03:13	buy track
5.	Chiffonier 01:45	buy track
6.	Amid, Imbued 03:04	buy track
7.	Through Boards 03:21	buy track
8.	Snow Window 03:07	buy track
9.	In a Nice Place (Swimming) 02:43	buy track
10.	Canopy 01:51	buy track
11.	Malammore 01:41	buy track

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Devin Ryan- acoustic and electric guitars
Heather McIntosh- bass and cello
Dylan Ryan- drums, vibraphone, piano, and synthesizer

This trio had already been making records indirectly together for decades before convening officially to record “Light From a Curious Sky.” Heather McIntosh and Dylan Ryan first played together in 2004 in the Chicago-meets-Philadelphia-via-Athens post-rock group, Icy Demons, bonding over a mutual love of film, and especially soundtracks. Since that time, McIntosh has carved out a prolific career as a film composer. She is an alumna of The Sundance Institute Music & Sound Design Labs at Skywalker Sound, a 2014 Sundance Institute Time Warner Foundation Fellow, a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and co-President of the Alliance for Women Film Composers.

The Ryan brothers began playing together in their parents' basement during the mid-nineties, doing their best to imitate the records of Captain Beefheart, and Ken Vandermark. Devin Ryan moved to the southwest in the mid-2000s and has since been heard playing with Opera Southwest and the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra. After relocating to Los Angeles in 2010 Dylan Ryan has since drummed with groups such as Red Krayola, Cursive, and Man Man, while also maintaining ties to the local experimental community, frequenting the bandstand alongside artists such as Bitchin Bajas, Jeff Parker, Patrick Shiroishi, Daniel Carter, Sam Gendel, and Devin Hoff, and releasing two albums under his name on the Cuneiform Records imprint.

Regarding the impetus for the “Light From a Curious Sky” record. Ryan explains, “Heather would hire me for soundtracks and we’d always end up chatting about some album in her collection and how fun it would be to do ‘something like this or that’... Devin and I had also been talking about doing something super loose, with no charts or songs brought in, just letting it come together up there on the mountain in Santa Fe where he was living.”

The group embraced the opportunity presented by the serendipitous timing of the two projects in such a way that two duo recordings came together as one trio record. The collection of pieces unite cinematic and improvisational aesthetics on one recording, drawing on free jazz, new age, minimalism, and psychedelia.

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released August 18, 2023

Recorded by Dylan Ryan and Nicholas Allen Johns in Santa Fe, NM and Pasadena, CA
Mixed by Nicholas Allen Johns in Pasadena, CA at Portable Picnic
Mastered by Dave Schultz in Los Angeles, CA at D2 Mastering

Original art by Jaime Zuverza
Cover layout by Alessandra Santucci

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