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12" Vinyl Album (Repress)
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
White vinyl with a printed innersleeve that includes lyrics and credits. Cover photo processed using cyanotype processing.
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PRE-ORDER: 12" Vinyl Album (Repress in Silver)
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
2nd edition of the début album with a silver design. Inside, a black vinyl with printed innersleeve that includes lyrics and credits. Cover photo processed using cyanotype processing.
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12" Vinyl Album (First Edition)
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Black vinyl with a printed innersleeve that includes lyrics and credits. Cover photo processed using cyanotype processing.
Includes unlimited streaming of Old Love Will Rust
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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CD + booklet with lyrics in a plastic-free digisleeve
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Gatefold card case with the photo of Rita Ray processed using cyanotype method. Sticker is on the case itself. Please recycle the shrinkwrapping!
Includes unlimited streaming of Old Love Will Rust
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
The debut album of the singer-composer Rita Ray from Estonia packs powerful, warm vocals and crisp production to go with it. "Old Love Will Rust" contributes 8 soul-heavy cuts to the current scene: it's got that slower, classic R&B side of affairs, as well as an uptempo disco delight, that keeps things tight. While miss Ray herself has credits in almost all aspects of the LP, it's a certified Solid Gold Production, led by Martin Laksberg of Lexsoul Dancemachine. Blue-eyed soul hasn't sounded so strong in ages!
Rita Ray is a small-town girl whose vocal chords are hardened by a decade in choir singing, spirit toughened by the city life and a foundation built in jazz studies. She's the first contemporary soul diva to rise from the post-Soviet state. Her soul-stirring shows have yet to leave a heart cold - she'll have you in her palm to deliver tender melodies, irony-filled lyrics, catchy riffs and disco-stomping sessions.
credits
released November 15, 2019
Personnel:
Recording engineer: Martin Laksberg
Assistant engineers: Robert Linna, Markko Reinberg
Mixing: Martin Laksberg
Producers: Martin Laksberg, Rita Ray
Mastering: José Diogo Neves, Peeter Salmela (A4)
Executive producers: Kristi Raias, Henrik Ehte
Released by: Funk Embassy Records
Album cover photo: Hannelore Karmel Juurikas
Photo cyanotype processing: Johann Huimerind
Graphic design: Céline Binkert + AKU
Musicians:
Rita Ray: vocals, back vocals, piano (A1, A4, B3-B4), wurlitzer (A2-A3, B2), horn arrangements (A2-A3), string arrangement (B2), percussion (A1, A3)
Artis Boriss – wurlitzer (A3), hammond organ (A1-A2), (B4)
Kristen Kütner – electric guitar (A1-A3), (B1-B4)
Jasper Alamaa – bass guitar (A1-A3), (B1-B4)
Ott Adamson – drums (A1-A3), (B1-B4), percussion (B1-B3), co-writer (B3)
Luiz Black – percussion (B2,B4)
Laura Klesment – violin (B2)
Toomas Hendrik Ellervee – violin (B2)
Talvi Nurgamaa – viola (B2)
Kaspar Kluge – cello (B2)
Jason Hunter – trumpet (A2-A3)
Siim Aimla – tenor saxophone (A2-A3)
Keio Vutt – baritone saxophone (A2-A3)
Thank you: Ülle Raias, Sten Valdmaa, Vaiko Eplik, Jarek Kasar, Mati Vaarmann, Robert Linna, Markko Reinberg, Salme tänava stuudio, Lauri Põld, Kaarel Raud, Johannes Laas, Rasmus Raal, Henrik Ehte, Peeter Salmela
Financed: Põlva Vald, Eesti Kultuurkapitali Põlvamaa ekspertgrupp
Blue-eyed soul and R&B as her forte, Rita Ray is a young singer and composer from Estonia known for her powerful yet
touching voice.
About debut LP "Old Love Will Rust"
“Rock solid and soulful.” - Shawn Lee (multi-instrumentalist, producer and presenter at Soho Radio)
"Best ever soul-album from Estonia." - Vaiko Eplik (composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer)...more
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