Raymond Byron - Bond Wire Cur

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Ray. Hard to believe we will never hear his gravelly voice on the phone again. He wasn't just an artist, he was a friend. R.I.P.

Bond Wire Cur is as surreal and desolate and haunting as anything he’s done. Collaborators on the album are many, yet the sound of the record is stripped-down and stark. It is a crucial chapter in his career and in ESP-Disk’s Drive to Revive Weird Rock.

QUOTES: “Strong and weird. Using ancient ingredients these little vignettes grow sneakily large and become some new kind of food. It’s beautiful and Ray’s finest record yet.” – Matthew Houck (Phosphorescent) re: Bond Wire Cur

“Raposa's skill as a singer and a lyricist are inextricably linked. His voice has a drifting, spectral quality that's perfectly suited to his overlapping images. Like John Ashbery, he's able to sustain pointed ambiguity for the duration of a composition, talking all around the thing without saying it.” – Brian Howe, Pitchfork, re: Castanets’ First Light’s Freeze