Castanets News: Castanets - Texas Rose The Thaw & The Beast (2009)
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Ray Raposa sure knows his way around a room. Whether using Castanets as a solo or band vehicle, he has explored inner and outer space was few have recently. You feel a sense of place, a grounding, in his music, as if the physical drives the emotional. "Texas Rose The Thaw & The Beast" is more open and emotionally varied than last year's brilliant but somewhat introverted "City of Refuge."
Reverb and cinematic atmospherics abound. Even on more or less country tunes like "Rose" and "Thaw and The Beasts" there is an ambient element, an almost prog obsession with aura...
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