Monday 24 August 2020

Ray Gomez' Volume (1980) in lossless, by request







Many thanks to the commenter who pointed this release out to me.  Ray played with Joachim Kuhn, most notably on the brilliant and beautiful fusion album Sunshower, as you can see here.

Most of the album is quite ordinary electric blues, electric pop, or hard rock, and not progressive at all.  It is, however, very pleasant if taken on its own terms-- like a little bit more educated version of a Steve Miller Band album with no radio-friendly hooks, jokes, and zoo sounds.

On the other hand the closer Blues for Mez combines really tight, gorgeous guitar lines on the strat with those awesome bent notes and finger-pickin' licks with a really nice, original chord structure that goes way beyond 12-bar banality, some of the dark intensity of it recalling the great Ralph Towner:



AVE CAESAR, those who are about to rock salute you... 
Play it out loud friends

7 comments:


  1. Btw I did the opposite of what you'd expect, I packaged the flac in a folder inside the mp3 folder, hopefully not a fake (news) flac
    https://www.sendspace.com/file/moyfuf
    https://www107.zippyshare.com/v/PERlC4d6/file.html

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  2. Thank you very much for this. Lovely full sound quality. Great request.

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  3. the info on who played is ALL wrong and the songs are out of order...but still a great post

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  4. Hi can you re-up with zippy please. Don't work with sendspace. Thank you

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  5. https://www76.zippyshare.com/v/6ZlkREKT/file.html
    here you go

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