BILL RYDER-JONES - IF...(LP)

Bill Ryder-Jones If... on LP + Download Card

If…, is the debut solo album from Bill Ryder-Jones. The release is inspired by Italo Calvino’s meditation on writing in the post modernist novel If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler and it lays out grand orchestral movements side by side with stark, nakedly emotional vocal led pieces that weave a bleak but beautifully visceral accompanying narrative.

Ryder-Jones left The Coral after their fifth studio album Roots & Echoes, on which his arrangements hinted at a deeper and spectacular compositional talent. If… has since provided the framework necessary for Ryder-Jones to explore his musical potency in full detail.

Taking its cue from Abel Korzeniowski’s off-kilter soundtrack for Tom Ford’s acclaimed film A Single Man, If…’s influences are eclectic and diverse, from modern cinema composers like Michael Galasso (Seraphine) and Clint Mansell (The Wrestler, Black Swan) to psychedelic sorcerer Syd Barrett, Nick Cave and '90s Welsh indie-psych disciples Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci. The results often sound like musical pieces in search of a film and it’s Bill’s intention that the listeners minds conjure their own to accompany the album.

If… was recorded in various locations around Ryder-Jones’ hometown of Liverpool including the Scandinavian Church and the Grade II listed warehouse Elevator Studios and his mother’s house. Musicians, friends and even the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra pulled together in order for If… to become a reality.

Bill Ryder-Jones If... Track Listing:

1.  If…
2.  The Reader (Malbork)
3.  Leaning (Star Of Sweden)
4.  By The Church Of Apollonia
5.  Le Grand Desordre
6.  Enlace
7.  Intersect
8.  The Flowers #3 (Lotus)
9.  Give Me A Name
10. Some Absolute End (The End)