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Castanets is the musical project influenced by country, folk and experimental rock led by Ray Raposa who has been signed to Asthmatic Kitty records since 2004. He has released seven albums, most recently ''Decimation Blues'' in 2014. Additionally, he participated in a number of split 7" singles and an EP with the likes of Shapes and Sizes and Dirty Projectors.〔(Listing ) of Castanets releases on Discogs.com, accessed August 7, 2015〕 While Raposa is the only constant member of the band, his records and live performances feature a rotating cast of musicians. A San Diego native, Raposa has lived in Brooklyn and currently resides in Portland, Oregon.〔 == Biography == Ray Raposa (b. 1981 Raymond Byron Magic Raposa) was born in Michigan City, Indiana.〔 He moved to San Diego at the age of two and grew up in the Mission Beach area.〔 At the age of 13 he and his mother moved to Baja while being home-schooled for a year. Raposa left school at the age of 15 and traveled around North America and St. Croix doing odd-jobs. He worked as a surf instructor for some time. In his late teens, Raposa became involved in the free-jazz project ''Womb'' that released a self-titled album (2004) recorded in 2001.〔(Listing ) for the Womb album on Discogs.com, accessed August 7, 2015.〕 In 2003 he appeared on the Liz Janes live EP ''Liz Janes And The Three Hour Choir'', recorded locally. While performing with others, Raposa had begun to develop his own musical interests. Together with Nathan Delffs, he recorded an number of CD-Rs, one of them entitled ''What Kind of Cure'' (2002).〔 While on tour with the band Howard Hello, Raposta began working with Liz Janes, whose was already signed to Asthmatic Kitty at the time.〔 The ''What Kind of Cure'' album was put forwarded to Sufjan Stevens who signed Rapose to the label. Instead of re-recording ''What Kind of Cur''e, it was decided to record new material for what became the ''Cathedral'' release in October 2004.〔 It was followed by an instrumental 12" that was split with the duo I Heart Lung.〔 Around the same Raposa moved to Brooklyn to pursue music together with Stevens while working in a record store.〔 In October 2005, the band released ''First Light's Freeze'', which was largely constructed by Raposa together with Stevens and engineer Rafter Roberts.〔 Prior to the release of the album ''In the Vines'' in 2007, Raposa was held at gunpoint in Bed-Stuy. The instrumental album ''City of Refuge'' was recorded in the Nevada desert town of Overton and released in 2007. Before beginning the recording of the fifth album ''Texas Rose, the Thaw, and the Beasts'' Raposa left New York and moved to Portland. He explained that half of the material was written 'on piano which I had never done before. I get a lot more pleasure out of it than playing guitar'.〔 However, failing equipment forced him to temporarily return to San Diego where he completed the album together with Rafter with contributions by Jason Crane, Pall Jenkins, Andy Robillard and DM Stith.〔 Raposa has toured with singer-songwriters Jana Hunter and Red Hunter (aka Peter and the Wolf). Raposa's most recent record, ''Decimation Blues'', was released in 2014 by the Asthmatic Kitty label. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Castanets (band)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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