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My debut album is now available.


Recorded at Studio 15, New Plymouth and in the Caravan Ray Mansion - "Sleeper" by Caravan Ray is 11 foot-tapping tales of drunkedness, cynicism and sexual perversion. The perfect party starter for any occasion.

CD's can be purchased at:
Chaos Music (Australia & NZ), and
CD Baby (USA and rest of the world)

MP3 downloads will be available from iTunes etc soon.

CD quality downloads are available at Bandcamp - you name the price.
and mp3 downloads at The Sixty-One

For those in the cheap seats - head on over to http://www.caravanray.com - and I'll see what I can do for you....

What's on it?

1. Sleeper
- remixed version of Nur Ein song

2. Pictures of Natalie Portman
- completely new recording of "Don't Break My Heart George Lucas" SF entry

3. So Blue
- completely new recording of "Purple Reign" song

4. In The Ditch
- completely new recording of Songfight entry

5. Control Yourself
- mostly completely new recording of Songfight entry

6. Clause 5, Sub-Paragraph b)
- remixed version of Songfight entry with extra guitar

7. Under the Horse
- completely new recording of Songfight entry

8. Pencil Me In
- remixed version of Nur Ein song with bass added

9. Sugar Shaker
- completely same recording of old Songfight entry, except for a few new vocals

10. Get A Life
- mostly completely new recording of Songfight entry (recycled old backing vocals)

11. Clear Blue Skies
- completely new recording of Songfight entry originally titled "Moonshine"

...and some notes on the artwork:

Many, many years ago - while still a schoolboy - some friends and myself travelled from Newcastle to Sydney to watch a One Day International cricket match between Australia and the West Indies. We stayed the night in tents at a caravan park in one of Sydney's southern suburbs. We got drunk, as schoolboys do - and my friend Justin passed out unconscious face down in the dirt. I took a photo of him.

Several years later - I and another friend started a band - "The Mess". We dreamed of one day recording an album. The picture of Justin unconscious in the dirt would be our album cover. That album never happened.

Some 20 years later - I made a CD. I had no title for it. I decided that a song called "Sleeper" would be the opening track. I remembered the photo of Justin passed out unconscious face down in the dirt (now badly faded, and badly in need of some Photoshopping). It all seemed to make sense. I made Justin a T-Shirt with his image as his modeling fee.

The CD also has a nice B/W photo of the summit of Mt Taranaki on the back cover, and lyrics inside.

I ordered mine. Get on it, peoples!

You're a champion Paco

Woohoo! My copy is on the way!

I'm on the dole right now, so I had to get the free mp3s, sorry. Good thing I did, though, because I couldn't help but notice an egregious typo on the front page of your site:

Caravan Ray's website wrote: SLEEP available everywhere!

Woot.

Generic wrote:I'm on the dole right now, so I had to get the free mp3s, sorry. Good thing I did, though, because I couldn't help but notice an egregious typo on the front page of your site:

Caravan Ray's website wrote: SLEEP available everywhere!

Woot.

I don't know how that creeped through. My website is normally such a slick and professionally run operation.

It is not necessarily incorrect though. Are you saying SLEEP isn't available everywhere? It may be difficult in some places, but under the right circumstances...

depends on who is doing the sleeping.

i was just waiting for a second songfighter cd to become available to buy fluffy's album, so i got both of them today. just a few left! order now!
-bill

ujnhunter wrote:Woohoo! My copy is on the way!

Thank you very much. You are a fine upstanding cock.

HeuristicsInc wrote:depends on who is doing the sleeping.

i was just waiting for a second songfighter cd to become available to buy fluffy's album, so i got both of them today. just a few left! order now!
-bill

Thank you. You can tell us which one is best cutting through the <6 months demographic

Generic wrote:I'm on the dole right now, so I had to get the free mp3s, sorry.

That is perfectly fine. Take. Enjoy. (though if you do actually enjoy - a brief note attesting to this at the CD Baby or Chaos websites would be more than ample payment)

I ordered my copy as soon as you posted about it on Twitter (if you are wondering who the "anonymous from san francisco" was). I received it the other day. I haven't gotten around to listening yet but it is sitting comfortably in the Song Fight Artists wing of my CD library.

Someday I will get around to putting up some sort of webpage of what's in my Song Fight Artists album collection so other people can know what's out there for purchase, although many of them are just lovingly hand-burned editions that people gave out at Song Fight Live or whatever.

A most excellent album! Full of the Ray that we all know and love, the songs are cleaned and spiffed up, yet retain all the right amounts of dirt that you'd expect. Catchy, well balanced, and funny. Impressive to listen to, and tastefully arranged to look at. Order your copy today!

Thank you Mr Stink.

I must admit - I am very pleased with how it came out. It is, I think, basically a good record of what I have been doing for the last 5 or so years. I think it represents my oeuvre well, and is something I am quite proud to play to someone and say - "this is me" - which was basically the whole point of the exercise in the first place.

The only song I was not entirely happy with was the one I didn't record myself, "So Blue". I got the studio to master that in without me even hearing it. Still - that is probably a good thing. If I had got my hands on it, I may have changed it for the worse. As it is, it provides a bit of variation (though there is a bit of sloppy guitar I'd like to edit out....).

And I am extremely pleased with the cover! The visual arts are really not my forte - but I think I fluked something pretty cool with that.

Caravan Ray wrote:

ujnhunter wrote:Woohoo! My copy is on the way!

Thank you very much. You are a fine upstanding cock.

and that was before So Blue pumped through my stereo system...
very cool album! it was nice hearing those songs... it brought me back to SF NYC v2!

i think they sold out already, because they sent me the sockpuppet but not the ray. i wait.
-bill

I sent more stock over a week ago - shouldn't be too far away

Man, how did you sell out of your initial stock so quickly? It took me MONTHS to get that far. Because my music sucks and nobody wants to pay for it, I guess.

Hey, I paid for your disc Fluffy! It's very good. As good as Ray's is, on a completely different plane. There's a great blend of sadness, elegant(!) what appears as simplicity, and smile inducing grooves and themes to it. Don't take the low road, man, yer stuff is damn good. Now everybody go get plaid!

Aw, thanks. That's what I try for.

I'm finally listening to "Sleeper." It sounds great, and it really brings new life to the original songs (which were of course great to begin with). I'm not too big on the weird chimey stuff towards the end of the title track but other than that it sounds excellent.