A new EP from The Sand Rays is available October 1st, and it is called (For October 2024), part of the series The Sand Rays has been devoted to exclusively since 2021, all derived from a short accidental recording of a humidifier, one distant lockdown day.
Ad copy is a fact of life, and so is distortion. Two tracks, sulphurious drones to euphonious haze within a twenty-or-so time span. Would have been a great 10” record, but is instead a cheap download.
Available at The Sand Ray's Bandcamp page.
Two online reissues of The Infant Cycle for April's Fools Day: The Sand Rays (originally released as a CD by Diophantine Discs in 2009), and Secret Hidden Message (a 7" from Drone Records, 2008). Both are available from The Infant Cycle Bandcamp, and both come with new pdf booklets and the option to buy the original physical releases as well:
The Infant Cycle's Bandcamp page.
While production for the long-form video drags on and on, we've decided to take stock on the last two and a bit years and make a compilation of the various work-in-progress releases from that time.
With working on the long-in-the-making (embarrassingly-delayed) eight-hour album taking its toll, we decided to put together a compilation from the previous progress-report releases that we made had made. Of course, it wouldn't be a Sand Rays release if it wasn't delayed itself- much of the material has been extensively reworked. This release could be regarded as a hybrid compilation/remix/new album.
The title refers to the surface noise of all life, the sounds that accompanies our existence. The actual sound source for all the pieces is only one short accidental recording of a humidifier, used as the sole sound source for all pieces in this recording.
Available at The Sand Ray's Bandcamp page.