No Blue Thing

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Released August 15, 1989 Producer Ray Lynch Release date 15 August 1989		Length 39:21 Artist Ray Lynch Label Ray Lynch Productions

No Blue Thing(1989) Nothing Above My Shoulders but the Evening(1993) Genres Instrumental, Adult album alternative Similar Deep Breakfast, Nothing Above My Shoulder, The Sky of Mind, Aerial Boundaries

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No Blue Thing is Ray Lynch’s fourth studio album. It peaked at #1 on Billboard's "Top New Age Albums" chart as well as #197 on Billboard's "Top 200 Albums. The album also peaked at #16 on Gavin Report.

Reception

Keith Tuber of Orange Coast praised the album, commentating that Ray Lynch "has a way with melodies, combining classical, acoustic and synthesized pop elements.". Meanwhile, John Diliberto of Jazziz Magazine criticized the album, calling it formulaic and concluded that the album "breaks no new ground".

Track listing

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

Personnel

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

Ray Lynch – keyboards, classical guitar

Tom Canning – "guitar" keyboards on "Clouds Below Your Knees"

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

Production

Mastered by Bernie Grundman (Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, California)

Mixed by Ray Lynch and Daniel Ryman at Ray Lynch Productions studio except for “Evenings, Yes” (Recorded at Different Fur, San Francisco; engineered by Howard Johnston; mixed at Mobius, San Francisco)

Songs

1No Blue Thing5:36
2Clouds Below Your Knees4:53
3Here & Never Found4:46

References

No Blue Thing Wikipedia

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