Castanets

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San Diego, United States

Castanets is an experimental one-man band from San Diego composed of Raymond Raposa and any number of session musicians brought on for his albums and performances. The music has been described as gothic country, avant-garde indie, psychedelic neo-folk, and a slew of other labels. Fundamentally, the music of Castanets is built on the clash between traditional music styles (folk, country) and modern intuition (avant-garde, psychedelia).

For several years, Raymond spent his time traveling the USA by bus and distributing CD-R copies of his music. Castanets has since released two albums, 2004’s Cathedral and 2005’s First Light’s Freeze, both on Sufjan Steven’s Asthmatic Kitty label.

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In The Vines
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First Light's Freeze
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What Kind of Cure
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Top Tracks

1	As You Do free download	407
2	This Is The Early Game free download	291
3	Sway free download	257
4	You Are The Blood	240
5	Strong Animal free download	228
6	Industry And Snow	204
7	Just To Break Free From A Hundred Families	202
7	Cathedral 2 (Your Feet On The Floor Sounding Like The Rain)	202
9	Rain Will Come	195
10	Good Friend, Yr Hunger	186
11	Westbound, Blue	167
12	Dancing With Someone (Privilege of Everything) free download	161
13	The Smallest Bones	156
14	All That I Know to Have Changed in You	154
15	No Light To Be Found (Fare Thee Faith, The Path Is Yours)	153

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pelicanese wrote:
Tuesday evening

Going to pick up City of Refuge today!...as soon as I can get my act together enough to leave the house.

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Milla_Rodka wrote:
last week

I've loved. Thanks

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FrankieHollywoo wrote:
last week

man. rock on. ROCK on. please.

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nibbleyourears wrote:
last month

Ray, you never let me down. New album is beautiful.

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brunoessm wrote:
last month

good

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xbelen wrote:
last month

3 dias 4 noches..

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LudwigVanGogh wrote:
August 2008

Ray I love you

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LudwigVanGogh wrote:
August 2008

Tripppy

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jennsayshello wrote:
July 2008

Where can What Kind of Cure be found?

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leivreed wrote:
July 2008

Very similar artist Leiv Reed, new album: http://www.last.fm/music/leiv+reed/only+color+true/

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theCaStOr wrote:
July 2008

great

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sinnido wrote:
July 2008

What Kind of Cure is my favorite Castanets album.

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mboles wrote:
July 2008

so, so, so underrated.....looking forward to "City of Refuge" in October...

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l7285462l wrote:
July 2008

perfect.

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moonblissser wrote:
June 2008

greatness. glad i finally took some time out to listen

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saintdeuce wrote:
June 2008

Cathedral is just really good folk music. I wouldn't say it's all that experimental...as much as it is just really well written folk songs.

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orangesideshow wrote:
June 2008

In The Vines is fucking amazing!

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Oblivion13 wrote:
June 2008

This man's beard has rockstar potential.

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El-Ejecutor wrote:
May 2008

everybody loves Raymond

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yolcuvincent wrote:
May 2008

how can i find song lyrics of ''in the vines'' album ? please p.m. me.

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