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10 tracks | 60 minutes
Released Feb 2002
on Ray Leonard Records
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Melodic and ambient space music for deep relaxation from Emmy Award winning engineer/composer.
Editorial review
"His goal," writes annotator Beth Ann Lerch of synthesizer player and composer Ray, "is simple: to create music that will bring people to a state of relaxation and reflection." In trying to reach this goal on his debut album, Ethereal Journey, the veteran recording engineer better known as Ray Leonard has made a space music album that treats space as a lonely and austere place. The title track, which opens the album, has a minor-key melody reminiscent of the folk song "The Great Silkie," a melancholy tune that sets the mood the disc maintains for an hour. The music is slow-moving, full of icy, echoing synthesizer patterns. This is the sound of deep space for listeners who have had their hearts slowed to the point of suspended animation. "Melodic ambient music," is the description written on the album cover, and the words are apt. As new age music goes, this one is better used than many for background and atmospheric effect rather than foreground listening. It is certainly calming, but it also has a distinctly sad tone. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
Imagine exploring the frontiers of space where endless wonders unfold. RAY'S music can contribute to numerous personal experiences including meditation, massage, yoga, therapy, stress relief, relaxation, love-making, healing, spiritual thought, prenatal care, sleep preparation, substance abuse recovery, hospice care, rave dance chill-out, or simply listening.
A top engineer in both the music business and television industry, Ray Leonard also is a New Age recording artist in his own right known as RAY, whose album takes the listener on a musical trip through the universe using gently-melodic space music.
RAY's main musical influences are Tangerine Dream, Patrick O'Hearn, and Enya. RAY, who composes all his own music, is inspired by nature sounds and scenery, reading, meditation, his son, personal events in his life, and the thrill of experimenting in the recording studio. All of his music is created on synthesizers.
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"With my music, I don't care if someone puts on headphones, closes their eyes and imagines space, or they put the album on at low volume in the background at a dinner party so they can talk over it," explains RAY. "There are many ways to utilize music. The sound can gently wash over you creating a sense of peace and relaxation, or you can listen closely and hear many of the little nuances that I added into the mix, sometimes up to forty tracks."
"Synthesizers can do amazing things. Not only can they emulate nature sounds or acoustic musical instruments, but they also can create brand new sounds, even notes beyond human hearing. There's nothing more exciting than creating a new sound which no one in the world has ever heard before. By blending all of the possibilities in an orchestral manner, it becomes a very powerful medium. The music has a freshness because there are those new elements blended with traditional sounds in a surreal fashion. As the composer, arranger and performer, I try to take each new piece into previously unexplored territory. I believe listeners feel like they too are discovering something exciting and new."
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