Artist.......: Magicrays
Album........: Off The Map
Label........: Gentlemen
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Mar-01-2007
str.date.....: Feb-2007
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo

track  title                                          time

01.   The Green River                               03:38
02.   Turn Insight Into Action                      03:15
03.   Marks                 Artist.......: Magicrays
Album........: Off The Map
Label........: Gentlemen
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Mar-01-2007
str.date.....: Feb-2007
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo

track  title                                          time

01.   The Green River                               03:38
02.   Turn Insight Into Action                      03:15
03.   Marks                                         03:40
04.   Off                                           04:52
05.   The Map                                       03:05
06.   9:21                                          05:30
07.   Hold Your Shoes                               03:59
08.   Dragon Shield                                 04:38
09.   Twilight Descent                              04:05
10.   Heart Burn                                    04:38
11.   Rotten Flowers                                01:49

Runtime  43:09 min
Size     54,1 MB

Release Notes:

About Magicrays :

It all started basically at the end of 89. Wlad &
Raph bought their first instruments together and
decided to form a band. Then Greg joined in 91 and
together with their drummer Yann, they did a few
gigs, opening for bands such as Noir DΘsir or New
Model Army, to then record their first album in 93
under a very teenage name Minds of contradiction.
Two years later, they sort of needed to experience
new things and changed their name to Magicrays,
adding some new members, a string section,
keyboard, trumpet and flute and recorded an EP.
They experienced gigs with 9 musicians on stageand
opened for Katerinewith a one gig temporary drummer
as Yann left the band just a week before. Joδl took
on the drums and in 99 they went off to studio
recordings for the first album Granted under the
name of Magicrays, followed by a EP Gawky with the
label Its time to. In 2000, they decided to play
only with the string section, Marie and Esther, and
toured a lot in Switzerland before taking a more
rock direction with only four members left on the
liststill there they are! For the intimate album
Take me home they wanted to record in a special and
vibrant place so they chose an old mansion in a
remote location in the Swiss mountains. This album
was also the move to a new label, Gentlemen
records, together with Fig joining the band as
fifth member. Magicrays first steps out of
Switzerland date back to January 2001 with Raph
touring solo in Germany, opening for Favez acoustic
tour, before experiencing the European adventure
with the band at the famous Eurosonic Festival up
north of the Netherlands in 2003, jumping that year
from cold weather to hot Paleo Festival. Time to go
back to recordings again and they contacted John
Parish who accepted to work with them on the album
On the shoreline far away in Wavelab Studio
(Calexico, Giant Sand) in sunny Tucson, AZ. What an
experience that was, also sleeping and playing at
the famous hotel Congress. On the shoreline came
out in Spring 2004, and gave the opportunity for
the band to tour around Europe before working on
new material for their album to come but also on
parallel projects. Raphelson for Raph, Twenty box
stories for Fig and Paramotion for Joδl. So for
now, Magicrays is working hard on new songs to be
recorded this Summer 2006, but also play a few
gigs, playing live some new songs that will be on
the new album. / @ Myspace.