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Raygun Ballet – World That Wasn´t
CD/DIGITAL DOWNLOAD, Private Release, 2012

Raygun Ballet is the persona of Los Angeles based creative director John-Mark Austin, whose name some may remember from Immersion Theory’s excellent space album release “The Icarus Foray”.

Its music though is a different story: it focusses on downtempo and IDM, and if you’re familiar with the quality music releases of the French Ultimae label, one will find out there are various similarities to be found on the strange but fascinating world made up by “World That Wasn’t”. The latter is dedicated to the relentless pursuit of naivete. In terms of instrumentation, Mellotron, Theremin, vocoders and laboratory sinewaves all make frequent appearances, next to acoustic guitar, Gregorian chants, plaintive vocal wails, electronic glitches and hypnotically pulsating beats.

The tracks itself feel a bit like a collection of short stories, taking a peculiar and different sonic highway compared to the vast cosmic journey displayed on “The Icarus Foray” (although both, according to the composer, chronicle a sort of transcendence). If I had to pick any highlights from the 51-minute recording, I’d choose “Sparky’s Theme”, the evocative “A Prayer for Mercy” and the tantelizing “Bursting Eden”.

All in all, the cinematic and profound nostalgic sounding “World That Wasn’t” is your personal invitation to a 1950′s sci-fi scene, offering an attractive opportunity to make up onces own flights of imagination into a feel-good world long gone by.
A special note and word of appreciation on Bryan Carrigan’s excellent mastering job and cool design/print work that graces “World That Wasn’t”.

Website: www.raygunballet.com