August - December, 1998

name: CAROLYN WARD   age: 49
profession: HOMEMAKER
place: FORT PLAIN, NY USA
time: Monday, December 28, 1998 at 14:10:41 (EST)
subject: ONE OF MY FAVORITES

IT IS ALWAYS EXCITING TO LISTEN TO YOUR MUSIC AND I LOVE ALL OF YOUR MUSIC.

name: Brian Beechum   age: 23
profession: Automotive Manufacturing Supervisor
place: Franklin, KY USA
time: Monday, December 14, 1998 at 03:57:30 (EST)
subject: Music in it's purest form

I just felt the need to express how much I enjoy listening to your music. I've been an avid follower of yours since I was 16, when I heard a selection from the deep breakfast cd in Walt Disney world. I've since gained a tremendous respect and insight into music from you. I'm also excited to hear your music playing on the Art Bell show :) I love the new dance re-mix, and hope to see a bit more of this in the future. I'll always be listening



name: Kimberley
profession: Medical field
place: Minneapolis, MN USA
website: http://home.talkcity.com/BlabWay/tccgabbie
time: Friday, December 11, 1998 at 15:02:38 (EST)
subject: The "Deep Breakfast CD"

I have been listening to your music it seems
forever...it's by far the best music for the soul
that I've found anywhere! I have noticed when I've
had a bad day,or just depressed,I pop in that CD and
all my troubles seem to fade from that point on.Ray,
you just have to keep on sending that beautiful music
to our ears forever!!I love your style and keep up
the fantastic work!! I would love to be able to have
a piece of your music to play on my website.Take care
and God Bless!:)


name: Kimberley
profession: Medical field
place: Minneapolis, MN USA
website: http://home.talkcity.com.BlabWay/tccgabbie
time: Friday, December 11, 1998 at 14:57:29 (EST)
subject: The "Deep Breakfast CD"

I have been listening to your music it seems forever...it's by far the best music for the soul that I've found anywhere! I have noticed when I've had a bad day,or just depressed,I pop in that CD and all my troubles seem to fade from that point on.Ray, you just have to keep on sending that beautiful music to our ears forever!!I love your style and keep up the fantastic work!! I would love to be able to have a piece of your music to play on my website.Take care and God Bless!:)


name: Randy Heck   age: 36
profession: Computer Network Administrator
place: USA
time: Thursday, December 10, 1998 at 10:28:03 (EST)
subject: Soundtrack ?!?

I popped Deep Breakfast into the cdrom this morning when I got to work. Fired up Real Player to catch up on what was new with the space station assembly. "Celestial Soda Pop" and "The Oh Of Pleasure" were playing during the highlights from yesterday's spacewalk. Very cool indeed!!! As if they were destined to be the soundtrack for this mission.

BTW I love your music and I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of "Best Of"

Randy


name: Ken Levesque   age: 28
profession: Computers
place: Mobile, AL USA
website: www.finchco.com
time: Monday, November 23, 1998 at 00:09:43 (EST)
subject: Great Music

10 years ago it was your music from the album Deep Breakfast, that helped me for the first time confront my own inner beauty. I'm not exactly sure how that happened, but it happened. I love your music and think that it has a certain introvertive quality that is wonderful. I'ts also great to play when making love. Thank you for the sharing of your gift.
Ken


name: Richard Clark   age: 54
profession: Civil Engineer
place: Simi Valley, CA USA
time: Saturday, November 21, 1998 at 02:37:07 (EST)
subject: Best Of

After years of hearing this music on the new age station in LA, I finally found out who you are. There are echoes of Faure, Debussy, and other Romantics in your music.
Very nice!


name: L. Alicia Sanchez   age: 22
profession: Computer Animator
place: Mesa, AZ USA
time: Monday, November 16, 1998 at 22:18:59 (EST)
subject: Beautiful Music That Makes Me Think

Dear Ray, I love your inspirational music. I would love to use it on my animation portfolio with your permission of course. Deep Breakfast is my favorite album. It helps me think. It makes me feel good when I'm feeling down. It even helps me draw and paint better. Thank you for your great sounds.
-Luly


name: Roy Green   age: 41
profession: Library Courier
place: Leesburg, VA USA
time: Thursday, November 12, 1998 at 20:33:00 (EST)
subject: Many Thanks

I heard " Celestial Soda Pop" on the radio why on my route, so I grabbed a pen and wrote it down on the first thing that came to hand, my left hand. Soon as I got home, went to Amazon.com and got "Best of". Can't thank you enough, your music does settle a fractious soul. Yours, Roy


name: Schuyler Norman   age: 12
profession: None
place: derry, nh USA
website: what's this
time: Thursday, November 12, 1998 at 14:37:13 (EST)

Dear Ray.
I love your music and hope you continue to make albums. I first found out about your nusic at a music store. I was listening to various cd's and then I saw your cover for "The Best of Ray Lynch" so i listened two it. I kept begging my dad until he bought it. I really like your music and it helps me relax. If I have a problem I pop in the CD. I would aprreaciate it if you would continue to make CD's.
thank you,
Schuyler Norman


name: Tom Greany   age: 48
profession: Engineer - Marriott Corporation
place: San Diego, CA USA
time: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 at 23:26:25 (EST)
subject: Ray Lynch, Best of

Dear Ray.
I was first exposed to your music via the introduction
music for "Dreamland" (Art Bell).
While browsing his [Art Bell] web site, I was able to
locate the title of the music that I found to be so unique.
My birthday was coming up and I was asked what I
would like. My request was for your CD (Deep Breakfast).
As fate would have it, I didn't get my request.
What I got instead was your CD, Ray Lynch, Best of.
If this CD is any indication of what I can expect
from your other CD's, you can be assured I will be
shopping for them in the near future.

My best regards and thanks, Tom Greany



name: John Bedunah   age: 51
profession: Teacher/Computer Consultant
place: Ft. Worth, TX USA
website: xmldevelopers.com
time: Monday, November 09, 1998 at 01:14:03 (EST)

Rarely in my life have I heard as beautiful music as that of Ray Lynch. The only way to enjoy such music is to turn out the lights, close your eyes, and let the music take you into worlds you have never experienced. The movement of the music is like the movements of a celestial universe where thought and feeling have no bounds and whole lifetimes are lived in seconds. The mundane disappears into heavenly flights and creative geometries that only your soul can understand. My life has been immeasurably enriched by Ray's music. His work is a concrete example that higher states of mind exist and that mind is, above all, a supreme creator in its own right. I'm listening to his music now as I work on my computer and no matter how many times I have listened I still feel uplifted. Thank Ray for the music and please tell him to keep writing it his way.

John Bedunah



name: Vincent F. Deatras   age: 35
profession: Framing Manager / Musician/ Collector....
place: San Martin, CA USA
time: Thursday, November 05, 1998 at 04:26:46 (EST)
subject: What imagery...........................

Dear Ray,

I would like to thank you for your newest offering to your humble admirers.

I was a Clarinetist for about 13 years before I had to give it up and start on a new path in the realm of Graphic Design. I can understand how music can affect and touch your life in many ways.

I had first heard your music in the early 80's, and since then I kept on listening.

Strangely enough, I didn't buy an album until your best of Ray Lynch hit the music shelves.

I have always liked the " Oh of Pleasure " and especially "Celestial Soda Pop". My other favorite artists are as follows Constance Demby and her " Novus Magnificat / and Set Free" albums, " Tangerine Dream, ( almost all of their albums ), and a new guy in the business Nicholas Gunn, ( I can't remember the names of his albums, but they were good too).

Thanks for your time and the wonderful gist of your music. You deserve all the praise that I've seen from your letters.

I can't wait to hear more from you.....


My warmest regards,


Vince Deatras....

Musician/Graphic Artist..........



name: Wendell Elmore   age: 53
profession: Move Coordinator
place: Aurora, CO USA
time: Saturday, October 31, 1998 at 17:15:40 (EST)
subject: Favorite Artist

My introduction to Ray Lynch was courtesy of a Denver area station, KHIH. At one time, it was a New Age station and was hooked into "The Wave". At the time I found this station, they were playing "Rythm In The Pews" and "Celestial Soda Pop".

I was just building my New Age library at the time and had to add Deep Breakfast to my collection. As much as I enjoy those cuts, my favorite by far is "The Pleasure Of Oh".
When I need to escape, I will put on my headphones and let the music engulf me. I have never found anothe piece of music that seems to be so in tune with my pschye.

I can't say enough about how much I enjoy the music of Ray Lynch and I anxiously await the release of a new CD.


name: Brian Green    age: 20
profession: Student at Arizona State University
place: Tempe, AZ USA
time: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 at 15:54:45 (EST)
subject: Great Music

You're Deep Breakfast soundtrack inspired me to create a short animation that will help me become an animator, a profession I have desired for many years. Thank you.


name: David Bowden   age: 24
profession: Writer
place: Champaign, IL USA
time: Monday, October 26, 1998 at 15:13:09 (EST)

Dear Ray,

It was ten years ago and I was just nodding off to sleep when a New Age station in Chicago played "Celestial Soda Pop." I didn't sleep at all that night for all the wonderful imagery it conjured up; I hadn't heard anything so rhythmically and melodically clean and subtle and 'alive' on the radio. I listened in vain for the credits to the song afterwards; there were none and I figured it was just a chance meeting, never to be repeated. The music lingered in my mind, though, and I found myself listening everywhere for it, humming whatever I could remember of it, and imagining what I couldn't hum. Anyone who's ever met and then lost an intriguing acquaintance knows what this feels like.

A couple of years later I was in Paris with my French class, and we stopped in a small bookstore, where I heard "Soda Pop" again. The clerk pointed out your album to me, and I (rather mindlessly) paid the equivalent of $28 for it on the spot. It's been more than worth it; Deep Breakfast was my very first CD (had to buy a player just for this album!) and it is easily my most-played.

Your music was my accompaniment as I first thumbed through the photos and souvenirs of that Paris trip. When I committed to writing as a vocation, it was while listening to "Falling in the Garden." These and many other fond memories are inextricably tied in with your music, Ray. Thank you ever so much for loosing your creativity on the rest us; it's always inspiring and fresh, a much-needed tonic in this tired world.

A devoted fan,
David Bowden
ilych@advancenet.net


name: Dennis Peters   age: 54
profession: Technical Support Specialist
place: West Chester, PA USA
website: N/A Street Addr... 604 Brookhill Road
time: Monday, October 26, 1998 at 09:53:48 (EST)
subject: Kudos

Just got my copy of "Best of RL Vol. one" and I love it. Thanks for a terrific mix of past albums and
new tracks. Please continue to produce celestial magic. We are many who love and appreciate
your hard work.

Regards, Dennis


name: Shelia Dexter   age: 23
profession: Customer Service Rep.
place: Corinna, ME USA
time: Friday, October 23, 1998 at 09:57:22 (EDT)
subject: Deep Breakfast

Ray,
I just wanted to let you know, I have enjoyed your music for 10 years now, it started back when I was in the seventh grade. My old History teacher played it for my best friend and I one day towards the end of the school year, while we shared a pizza on the front steps of the tiny Junior High School. My history teacher never knew how much your music got to me. I went out and bought the tape Deep Breakfast the next day, listend to it until it just plain wore out. I didn't know where to find another one until last summer, I was looking through some cd's at a yard sale and bought your cd from there. I listen to it frequently again and have shared it with many friends, including the same little girl who sat on the Jr High steps with my old History teacher and I that first day. She loves it too. I didn't realize you had so many other ones out. I will have to go in search for them, Celestrial Soda Pop was the one that got me hooked at first, but have since then enjoyed all of them on that cd. Thank you Ray!



name: Paul Scheller   age: 46
profession: wheat farmer
place: Odessa, Wa. USA
time: Friday, October 23, 1998 at 02:08:48 (EDT)

"The Oh of Pleasure" from Deep Breakfast brings to my mind the splendor of the Sonoran desert after a thunderstorm. I love your music Ray.


name: mark baker   age: 22
profession: usaf
place: Las Vegas, NV USA
time: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 at 16:21:16 (EDT)
subject: Breakfast

I was first introduced to "Deep Breakfast" by a friend in High School. I loved it then (til I lost it), and I recently found it again on the net. Thanks to seaches I was able to locate it fairly easily (I only knew Deep Breakfast). I am once again enjoying it over and over. Thanks.......


name: Patricia Okada   age: 40
profession: writer
place: Ut USA
time: Sunday, October 18, 1998 at 03:01:57 (EDT)
subject: The magic of Ray Lynch

Dear Ray,
I can honestly say I have been a fan of yours for almost 10 years. My first exposure to your music was Celestial Soda Pop and it hooked me from the first notes. I can listen to your music over and over again and love it every time. That is a rare thing in a writer/Composer. I am glad to see you are still at it and want to thank you for your contribution to my music enjoyment. You are one of my all time favorite musicians. I look forward with anticipation to more great compositions. Thank you, Sincerely, Patricia Okada


name: Dave Seger   age: 47
profession: Engineer, NBC News
place: Glendale, CA USA
time: Saturday, October 17, 1998 at 01:02:14 (EDT)
subject: Thank you!

Dear Ray:
It was a few years ago that I had worked late into the night after a very very long day and was finally returning home on a rainslicked Glendale Freeway when I first heard "The True Spirit of Mom and Dad" on the radio. As the rain came down on my windshield, I was moved to tears of such joy that I'm sure you CAN imagine, having created such beauty. I was almost lost in time and distance as I made my way home that night listening to your music.

The next day I went on my search for this "No Blue Thing" I heard the night before. Upon listening to it I fell even more in love with you musical vision. I shared it (a tape) with my very young daughter at the time and she too would ask for "No Blue Thing" when riding in my '84 Toyota pickup. Alas, the '84 pickup was stolen one day along with "No Blue Thing". For too long a time I did not, could not, listen to Ray Lynch as other things in life seemed to prevail.

And then last summer took me to Kuai with my family and my mother for what turned out to be an extraordinarily special vacation and timein our lives together and apart...my mom lives back in Iowa. I convinced Mom to join me on a helecopter ride over Kuai. It was a truly remarkable experience, even for me, even though I have logged many hours aloft. For Mom, it was beyond that. But as we descended into the Volcanic crater in the highest of Kuai's mountains, our piolot switched the CD to "The True Spirit of Mom and Dad". I lost it (again) and asked him who recorded it. I'd forgotten. He said "Ray Lynch" and we made some sort of connection on inquiry as I could read a very friendly sort of "But you knew that" in his eyes. Thank you, Ray! I'm listening again.


name: Louis Z   age: 59
place: West Hollywood, CA USA
time: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 at 22:44:53 (EDT)
subject: The Beauty of Your Music

I have been a fan of yours for about 10 years and have faithfully collected all your albums. To this day, wheneverI enter a music store, the first area I check is the New Age in the hope that you may have released a new album. Your music has meant so much to me. Almost like a religious experience. It is spiritual, uplifting and inspirational. I am truly one of your most admiring and respectful fans. Thank you for adding so much to my life.


name: Ron Mahannah   age: 56
profession: Designer
place: Clover, SC USA
time: Saturday, October 10, 1998 at 07:22:09 (EDT)
subject: Thanks

I have all your albums, including "The Best of..."
I want to know when the next one'll be released.

I really get into your music. It tugs some primeval chords.


name: Mark Keillor   age: 40+
profession: musician
place: Greensburg, IN USA
time: Friday, October 09, 1998 at 16:38:45 (EDT)
subject: Great Music

Great music, I enjoy listening and even trying to play some of your tunes myself. Looking forward to more.


name: Eek   age: 22
profession: united states marine core
place: san diego , ca USA
time: Friday, October 09, 1998 at 16:25:30 (EDT)

ray lynch puts out verry uplifting albums and no matter what mood im in he always prevails to make it much better i listen to a wide variety of music but find myself listing to new age more and more ray was the first of the new age i heard and if you like him you should also like vangallis (i think thats how its spelled) angellic voices

name: John H. Carney   age: 57
profession: retired
place: Boca Raton , FL USA
time: Thursday, October 08, 1998 at 22:46:11 (EDT)
subject: Spiritual communication

Have been listening/inspired by your music since I heard Deep Breakfast many years ago in a small shop in Nashville,IN. Your music speaks a spiritual language that touches me deeply.

Several important questions, if you are able to answer: How do you receive the inspiration for your music? Are you religious, and if so, of what church might you be a member? Do you feel the presence of God in your music and your world?
Thanks. John

name: Pam and Bill Bird   age: 50
profession: Life travelers
place: Albany, NY USA
website:
time: Friday, October 02, 1998 at 21:36:51 (EDT)

This music is great for opening the heart and processing stored emotion, n'est ce pas?


name: Daniel Martin   age: Ageless
profession: Devote of Life
place: Ravenshoe, NQLD Australia
website: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/2633
time: Monday, September 28, 1998 at 00:38:52 (EDT)

I your music Ray.

I would love to talk to who ever would Like to talk about anything. Come visit my site.
Ray, get MP3s of your music.


name: Kristofer Ulfves   age: 22
profession: student, musician
place: Umea, Sweden
website: http://www.ing.umu.se/~me96kus
time: Monday, September 21, 1998 at 17:36:13 (EDT)

Ray Lynch has been a great influens for me, and certainly has helped me understand the undiscribable beaty that can be performed by the blending of elektronics and traditional chamber-music. I think "The Sky of Mind" and "Deep Breakfast" is the greatest highs. Thanks for the great music Ray!


name: Doug Jones   age: 39
profession: Service Department Manager
place: Fort Wayne, IN USA
time: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 at 10:22:26 (EDT)
subject: Best of CD

I just wondered if any one else felt the audio on the new (Best Of) disc seemed overdriven. I work in a Retail Consumer electronics store and the disc actually overdrives several of our pre-amps and really distorts at any volume in my PC (which I realize is not exactly HI-FI). Just curious!


name: Alejandro Vázquez del Mercado H.   age: 15
profession: student/artist
place: Mexico, DF México
time: Friday, September 11, 1998 at 22:30:26 (EDT)
subject: Ray Lynch's songs are strange worlds, and I have lived in all of them

Ray: I love Deep Breakfast and no Blue thing. Today when I was hearing No Blue thing I was falling asleep in my bed (no offense, i was VERY tired) but suddenly track four began (drifted into a deeper land) and then i was between consiousness and unconsciousnes, and i got the idea that i was in a place. It was a place I created listening to your music, and it was such an incredible experience. You know, for all those fans reading, i get the idea that Deep Breakfast is a world, and every song shows a part of this world and songs are some kind of related, showing different faces of the same. And maybe deep blue is some other kind of world (like Ray Bradbury's october country).

Well, that's just a crazy idea that ocurred to me today, so, fans out there, wether you are against that or not please write me.

Before Ray I never heard music so simple and so complex... it is the escence of something i cannot quite describe, and yet it is displayed so naturally.... as if each song was perfect and eternal and Ray Lynch captured them (that's what I feel, I don't mean to take out any credit).
Well, as you can see i'm a little bit crazy...
Keep up the perfect work Ray!
PS: if anyone is interested in writing a new age song with me we can do it by mail or something! please write!



name: Jamie & Adrien Sumner   age: 21&20
place: Jonesville, SC USA
time: Thursday, September 10, 1998 at 23:11:57 (EDT)
subject: Just visiting

I must say that Ray Lynch is one of the greatest musicians I have heard. I listen to a wide variety of music, but I must say that Mr. Lynch is one of the most talented and most original artist I listen to. I was wondering if there is anyway to get sheet music of any of his songs....I would great appreciate any info....feel free to email me.


name: Candi González Buesa   age: 18
profession: Estudiante
place: Moros (Zaragoza), España
time: Sunday, September 06, 1998 at 16:48:55 (EDT)

Ojalá todos los artistas y músicos a los que admiro tuvieran una web como ésta. Acabo de entrar aquí y la verdad es que alguien se ha tomado bastante tiempo en hacer estas fantásticas páginas. Un gran trabajo.
Y, por cierto, la música con que usted nos maravilla es algo... no se puede describir con palabras.
Gracias.


name: Rhonda    age: 42
place: Danville, VA USA
time: Saturday, September 05, 1998 at 22:45:58 (EDT)

I Love your music...I discovered it many years ago and have been a loyal fan ever since. I've recommened it to all my friends and the interest continues to spread. Thanks for all your hard work!


name: Robert Thomas   age: 49
profession: computer programmer
place: Little Rock, AR USA
time: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 at 08:36:05 (EDT)
subject: Reaction

When I play music for guests, when your work comes on someone always asks: "What IS that music?"
The only other piece that gets that response is The Serenade for Strings by Dvorak.


name: Barry    age: 22
place: USA
time: Sunday, August 30, 1998 at 20:01:11 (EDT)

Dear Mr. Lynch

I have recently become acquiated with your works,
and am totally blown away. Never Have I recieved
such raw emotion, from a single peice of art. The levels and
depth of intrigue and beauty which you breath into into each
peice, is rivaled only by Keiko Matsui. I find myself
listening to your music, each note seperatley as one word
and then writing down what I hear suddenly I have whole
conversations. These conversation are then added to my
stories. Many have not found a place yet but will.
Your music is one of the few than I can not listen to
without giving full attention to it. I follow along with
each new sound and paint brush rush through my mind creating
wonderful landscapes. Your music is such an insipration that
I have managed to talk my college English teacher into using
as a reading, rather listening requirment!

Thank you so much for your gift to me. I hope someday I may
give you something in return.

Luck, Love & Life
Barry




name: Jim de Graff   age: 44
profession: Computer Programmer/Analyst
place: Winnipeg, MB Canada
time: Friday, August 28, 1998 at 14:35:54 (EDT)

As far as I'm concerned you have no responsibility your
fans. You didn't get them by guessing at their tastes. You
composed what was in your heart. You can be faithful to your
fans only by continuing to write what you feel.


name: Dan Peters   age: 21
profession: Student
place: Northampton, MA USA
time: Thursday, August 27, 1998 at 12:43:56 (EDT)
subject: Tours

No Blue Thing was the first cd I heard that led me to start exploring musical styles. I picked up that album when I was 16 and since then, I have added the rest to my collection. I would love to see you live sometime. I think depriving the ears of the world of your music would be a shame.


name: Bryan Rulli   age: 21
profession: Student
place: Franklin, WI USA
time: Monday, August 24, 1998 at 19:08:44 (EDT)
subject: Web Page

I recently purchased Ray's CD, The Best of, and can say that it was very pleasant, emotional, and ingenius. This is my first CD of Ray Lynch's, and I must say I was impressed. Also, I want to say Excellent web page!
Keep up the good work.


name: George Page   age: 66
profession: Retired??? Consultant
place: Yuma, AZ USA
time: Tuesday, August 18, 1998 at 23:55:15 (EDT)
subject: My deepest thanks

Dear Ray,

I wrote to you some years ago and received a very prompt and friendly answer. I have every album that you have made, and if you could wear out a CD, I'm sure mine would have been tossed months ago. I take your music with me wherever I go. I just happend on your web page and as a result, will rush out to buy your new one. I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for providing me with so many hours of top quality entertainment.

One more thing. Your Web Site is just great. I was already aware of a few of the high points of your life, by now I have learned much more. My hat is off the the developers of your site.

So now I will patiently, well semi, for your next compositions. Have you ever considered doing some Classical using your great talent on the synth?? Just a thought.

God Bless you,
George Page


name: ANTONIO PADILLA   age: 27
profession: JUST AN ORDINARY MAN
place: aguascalientes, AGS. MEXICO
time: Tuesday, August 18, 1998 at 16:50:38 (EDT)
subject: JUST LETTING KNOW

DEAR MR. RAY LYNCH:
I CAN TELL YOU THAT NO OTHER MUSIC HAS MAKE FEEL ALL THIS MARVELOUS SENSATIONS. SINCE THE VERY FIRST MOMENT I HEARD "NO BLUE THING" I KNEW YOU ARE THE BEST NEW AGE MUSICIAN EVER.
THE FIRST TIME I HEARD FROM YOU WAS IN 1991, AND BELIEVE ME, SINCE THEN I HAVEN´T MISS ANY OF YOUR PRODUCTIONS.
I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU ABOUT MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE RECORD "NOTHING ABOVE MY SHOULDERS BUT THE EVENING".
I WAS VISITING MY FAMILY IN L.A. WHEN I ADCQUIRED (BOUGHT) "THE SKY OF MIND" AND "NOTHING...".

BY THAT DATE I ALREADY HAD THE FIRST TWO RELEASES: "NO BLUE THING" AND "DEEP BREAKFAST" WHICH I BOUGTH HERE IN AGUASCALIENTES (WELL, AT LEAST THE FIRST ONES FROM YOU IN THIS CORNER OF THE WORLD).
AND WHEN I LISTENED TO "OVER EASY" I THOUGHT: "HEY!, THIS IS NOT RAY LYNCH". AND SO ON WITH THE OTHER ONES IN THE ALBUM.
DON´T ASK ME ABOUT "THE SKY OF MIND". BUT BELIEVE ME. YOU CAN´T REALLY IMAGINE HOW IMPRESSIVE IT HAS BEEN FOR ME TO DISCOVER THE GREATNESS IN YOUR COMPOSITIONS.

AND NOW AFTER FOUR YEARS OF LISTENING THOSE TWO LAST ALBUMS (WHICH IS A GLOBAL OF SEVEN YEARS LISTENING TO YOUR MUSIC) I HAVEN´T FISHISHED OF GETTING IMPRESSED.

EVERYTIME I LISTEN TO ANY OF THOSE PIECEWORKS I CAN PERCEIVE AND FEEL ALL THE POWER THAT IT INVOLVES AND EVOKES.

AND NOW -FOR LAST- YOUR PART ONE OF HITS. DON´T MAKE US WAIT THAT LONG TO HEAR FROM YOU AGAIN. PLEASE. YOUR MUSIC IS PART OF MY LIFE -AND SO MANY OTHERS´-. IT HAS MAKE ME SEE HOW MUCH BEAUTINESS THERE IS.

THANKS FOR YOUR INSPIRATION, SIR!.


-ONE LAST THING. HOW CAN I GET THE MUSIC YOU PERFORMED WITH THE RENAISSANCE QUARTET AND ALL THE ORCHESTRAS AND ASSEMBLES YOU PLAY (ED) WITH.?
IF THERE IS A WAY TO GET THEM PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

MY ADRESS IS:
FRANCISCO FLORES #213
COLONIA MIRAVALLE C.P. 20040
AGUASCALIENTES, AGS. MEXICO

I AM AN EMPLOYEE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF AGUASCALIENTES.


name: Philip Shore   age: 51
profession: Arts Administrator
place: Asheboro, NC USA
time: Sunday, August 16, 1998 at 19:09:29 (EDT)
subject: Greetings and request for your contemplation

I am new to you. Just got "RL Best of" and am being internally tickled. The Music of What Happens is complex and meaty--I enjoy it very much along with other cuts. I know composition is not something that can be requested but for an outsider to suggest to an insider a thought field sometimes yields a result which has its own life. I live in an area rich in the traditions of pottery. Seagrove, NC, is just down the road. There are 90-some pottery businesses there. (besides being artists, each and every one is an independent business-person). Your music could envelop the rising of the clay and take it through the kiln and come out permanence from humble mud, brightly glazed and full of flowers. thank you for your music and your time.


name: Stephanie
time: Friday, August 14, 1998 at 17:12:19 (EDT)
subject: How the "Deep Breakfast" CD Touched My Life

Dear Ray,

I have a unique story to relate to you about how your music touched my life. I lived most of my life in New Jersey near the ocean and have focused much of my master's degree on marine science. I also have been a dancer since age four and have been teaching dance for a number of years now. I currently direct a community dance school and dance company in New Hampshire.

Last January, I went scuba diving in Florida (another of my passions) with my Coral Reef Ecology class. During the course a guest lecturer gave a slide show on Yap and Palau. This moving underwater slide show used your "Deep Breakfast" CD as accompanying music. I didn't know if I was more moved by the magnificent pictures before me or the inspiring music attacking my senses. I could hear the music in my head each day as I dove the magnificent coral reefs. It seemed as though nature was calling me to action on her behalf. I was so taken by the music that I ran out to get it immediately upon my return to New Hampshire.

When I returned to dance classes I announced that the dance company would be starting on a series of dances in commemoration of 1998, the International Year of the Ocean. Company dancers ranging in age from five to thirteen made a group field trip to the New England Aquarium to see the grace at which marine organisms move in the water.

My students dance in unison with the grace of kelp in the ocean - their aqua blue costumes shimmer like the sea. It gives me chills everytime I see them dance. Part of it is just the excitement of seeing them in motion, a close group of intelligent, talented young ladies who are so important to me - but to see them move to such deeply spiritual music brings tears to my eyes. The girls truly enjoy dancing to your music.

Thank you, so much, for your inspiring music.

Sincerely,

Stephanie Scherr


name: Ed Collier
place: USA
time: Friday, August 14, 1998 at 15:46:10 (EDT)
subject: Request for Information, Please

I purchased "Deep Breakfast" after hearing a friend play it
in our car pool. I purchased the CD and share the music
with others when I drive. I recently purchased the "Nothing
Above My Shoulders But The Evening" CD, and was disappointed
that the selections on "Nothing Above..." were so dissimilar
from those on "Deep Breakfast." Please let me know which of
Ray Lynch's compact discs contain selections more in the
style of all the MARVELOUS [my taste] selections on
"Deep Breakfast," as opposed to the ones on "Nothing
Above...," which, unfortunately tends to cause me to nod
off while driving.

Thank you kindly for your help in this matter.

Ed Collier


name: JAMA BALLENGER   age: 50
profession: MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST
place: HAGERSTOWN, IN USA
time: Thursday, August 13, 1998 at 22:45:38 (EDT)
subject: BEST OF

WOW !!!!!!!!!
I JUST BOUGHT YOUR NEW CD AND I LOVE IT!
THIS IS THE FIRST ONE THAT I HAVE LISTENED TO.
I CAN'T WAIT TO PURCHASE MORE !!!!! THANKS !!!


name: oscar juarez   age: 37
profession: ingenier
place: matamoros, tamp mexico
time: Thursday, August 06, 1998 at 17:17:27 (EDT)
subject: congratulations

your music is very special
tank you for give us music.

i am from mexico , in the border with browsville texas.
when you are near to texas for a presentation let me know
please. tank you


name: David   age: 23
profession: Software Engineer / Musician
place: Phoenix, AZ USA
time: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 at 16:59:21 (EDT)

Just wanted Ray(or anyone for that matter) to know that his music has been one the driving forces that led my music to where it is today. Thanks Ray.


name: David   age: 23
profession: Software Engineer / Musician
place: Phoenix, AZ USA
time: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 at 16:58:37 (EDT)

Just wanted Ray (or anyone for that matter) to know that his music has been one the driving forces that led my music to where it is today. Thanks Ray.


name: Russ Briggs   age: 50
profession: Engineer
place: Blairsville, GA. USA
time: Tuesday, August 04, 1998 at 16:02:36 (EDT)
subject: Still Listening

Long ago I wrote you about my handicaped stepson Jason (Favorite Letters). Now deep in the moutains of North Central Georgia we still listen and enjoy your work. As long as we have your music there is color in his darkness and a smile in his soal.



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