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Released
  
December 12, 1984

Length
  
40:20

The Sky of Mind (1983)
  
Deep Breakfast (1984)

Artist
  
Ray Lynch

Label
  
Ray Lynch Productions

Recorded
  
1984

Producer
  
Ray Lynch

Deep Breakfast (1984)
  
No Blue Thing (1989)

Release date
  
1984

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Genres
  
New-age music, New Age, Adult album alternative

Similar
  
Ray Lynch albums, New-age music albums

From beyond spiritual music


Deep Breakfast is Ray Lynch’s third album and was released in 1984. In 1989, the album peaked at #2 on Billboard's "Top New Age Albums" chart, behind David Lanz's album "Cristofori's Dream". The album was eventually certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1994.

Contents

Title

The album's title is taken from a line in The Mummery Book by Lynch's spiritual teacher, Adi Da Samraj: "Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. 'You must be starved, old friend. Come into my apartments, and we'll suffer through a deep breakfast of pure sunlight.'" The sentence is quoted in the album's liner notes.

Reception

Joe Brown of Washington Post praised the album, calling it an album to "effective with headphones". Brown particularly praised the the song "The Oh of Pleasure", stating that it "uses gradual amplification to give the strange sensation that you're being drawn deeper and deeper into the sound."

Track listing

Deep Breakfast includes the following tracks.

Personnel

All music composed, arranged, and produced by Ray Lynch except The Oh of Pleasure which was co-written by Lynch and Tom Canning.

  • Ray Lynch – keyboards, piano, guitar
  • Tom Canning – keyboards on "The Oh of Pleasure"
  • Beverly Jacobs – flute
  • Ron Strauss – viola

    • Production

  • George Horn and Fantasy Studios (San Francisco) – mastering

    • Appearances in other media

  • Several tracks from the album were commonly used during the late 1980s and early 1990s as atmospheric music in Wonders of Life in Epcot and Tomorrowland in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.
  • The Stone Mountain Laser Show in Atlanta, GA used "Celestial Soda Pop" as one of the tracks in the show, set to animated shapes and colors. The segment containing the song retired after the show's 25th anniversary.
  • "The Oh of Pleasure" is used as the theme song for Dreamland, a radio program hosted by Whitley Strieber, and prior to him, Art Bell.
  • "The Oh of Pleasure" can be heard in the video game "Grand Theft Auto IV" on the fictional radio station "The Journey".
  • "The Oh of Pleasure" is featured in the film Gentlemen Broncos. The song was later reused in Jared and Jerusha Hess' other work, the animated adaptation of Napoleon Dynamite, when Kip performs his illusionist trick in front of an audience.

    • Songs

    1Celestial Soda Pop
    2The Oh of Pleasure5:22
    3Falling in the Garden2:47

    References

    Deep Breakfast Wikipedia
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