Deep Breakfast from Ray Lynch

Nothing Above My Shoulders but the Evening

Deep Breakfast

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Deep Breakfast

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Platinum Record Certification,

May, 1993
Recording Industry Association of America, Inc.

DEEP BREAKFAST was the first independently released Platinum album.

Audio CD: $12.98 each qty:		*Personalized, Autographed Audio CD: $20.48 each qty:

Audio Cassette: $9.88 each qty:		Personalized, Autographed* Audio Cassette: $17.38 each qty:

1. Celestial Soda Pop

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5. Rhythm in the Pews

6. Kathleen's Song

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7. Pastorale

8. Tiny Geometries

2. The Oh of Pleasure

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3. Falling in the Garden

4. Your Feeling Shoulders

Ray Lynch Comments:

Deep Breakfast was possible because I had already done The Sky of Mind and new technological tools had become available. One part of my character had been summarized and expressed in the previous work and I was ready to do something different - something more energetic and less "controlled". I didn't "plan" or prefigure the album as a whole (I never do this). I simply started writing pieces which were interesting or moving or fun, or any combination of the above and when I had enough pieces I spent a fair amount of time sequencing them until they seemed to work together. Deep Breakfast eventually went platinum (mainly through word-of-mouth, so it took a while), and it generated a lot of fan mail. Hearing from so many different kinds of people telling me how much the music meant to them was both empowering and sobering. And to some extent, it helped set the stage for the next album, No Blue Thing.

		Special award from BMG Records for Deep Breakfast - Pete Jones, President of BMG distribution (left), Al Bergamo (right)
In the photo above, Ray is standing in front of the oil painting of *Deep Breakfast* , which was used for the album cover. An artist friend of Ray's, Kim Prager (now Zen Player), had heard some of the new music and asked for a cassette of it, which Ray gave him. Several weeks later, Kim came back to Ray with this lively oil painting, which really captured the spirit of the music.

Did You Know………

The music of *Deep Breakfast* keeps popping up in intriguing places . . . to the surprise of everyone, The Oh of Pleasure is included in the Grand Theft Auto IV soundtrack, along with artists such as Aphex Twin's SAWII, Jean Michel Jarre, and Tangerine Dream.