Raymond Scott Woolson
NEWS   All new music projects are on hold while I deal with some major personal problems. Sorry 'bout that.
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play lo-fi play hi-fi  Outing Park
play lo-fi play hi-fi  We Broke Our Earthly Bounds
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Future Self Portraits
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Fallen As We Were
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Mona Risan
play lo-fi play hi-fi  By Special Invitation Of A Sky-Blue Scarf
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Towers And Rivers
play lo-fi play hi-fi  You Are Always The Ocean Around Me
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Falling Into The Waiting Fields
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Bringing Margot The Sun
Dream pop / shoegaze / ambient / ethereal / atmospheric.

Oceans of guitars, the occasional keyboard, a helpful drum machine. No vocals. The music speaks for itself.

"...a steady, cohesive flow of washed-out beauty..."
"...I'm lost in a sea of sounds..."
"...a truly beautiful, haunting quality..."
"...lovely, beautiful sonic soundscapes..."


THIS PAGE WAS UPDATED January 24, 2009.

What you'll find here:

Two brand new songs:
Outing Park
We Broke Our Earthly Bounds

One song from the unreleased CD album BROKEN THINGS MENDED.
Future Self Portraits

One song from the 2007 CD-R mini album WITH STRINGED INSTRUMENTS.
Fallen As We Were Upon The Autumn Of Our Days

One song from the 2003 CD-R album ATMOSPHERIUM.
Mona Risan

Four songs from the 2004 CD-R album LEGENDARIUM.
By Special Invitation Of A Sky-Blue Scarf
Through Towers And Rivers Of Light And Beyond
You Are Always The Ocean Around Me
Falling Into The Waiting Fields

One song from the 2007 CD album THE VIEW FROM BOGGINS HEIGHTS.
Bringing Margot The Sun

And, just for fun, a handful of older vocal and pre-"ethereal instrumental" songs:
The Silence That Followed - 2000
If Wishes Could Sing - 1993
Slayton Settlement - 1992
Hostage - 2000 recording of a 1992 song
Scattered On A Day Of Clouds - 2001 recording of a 1994 song
Drive On, Jeeves - 1998


CURRENTLY AVAILABLE:
ACCIDENTAL GRACE NOTES
50 minute CD available at cdbaby and itunes.

THE VIEW FROM BOGGINS HEIGHTS
58 minute CD available at cdbaby and itunes.

Gratia et pax Christi exultet in corde tuo.
Band History:
Raymond Scott Woolson first picked up a guitar at age 4, and has been making various noises with it ever since.
Your influences?
Slowdive, Cocteau Twins, Atmospheric guitar-based dream pop and shoegaze. Ambient mood music. Echoes and reverberations. Waves against the shore and birds in the high branches. Sun and stone. Wind and water.
Anything else...?
"Raymond Scott Woolson has delivered a beautiful guitar-based CD. The music revolves around a central chord progression motif which Woolson develops employing a lush combination of delay and volume washes. It's a peaceful ambience that evolves and flows over the course of the CD and makes for wonderful, quiet mood music that, for me anyway, feels quite uplifting. Highly recommended."
--ATMOSPHERIUM album reviewed by Bryan Baker, Gajoob Magazine