New Album, Calamities of Silence available 10/9/20
California Bay Area-based guitarist and composer Ryan Pate has created a series of striking soundscapes inspired by writers and thinkers who’ve grappled deeply with the existential human dilemma. The texts serve as a heady launching pad for a suite that’s sonically expansive and emotionally inquisitive, encompassing lushly orchestrated ambiance, beautifully calibrated melodic passages, and stark meditations. Featuring drummer Devin Gray, pianist Omree Gal-Oz, Pate on electric guitar and occasional piano, synths, and percussion, and Aaron Kruziki on bass clarinets, alto sax, flutes, and accordion, Calamities of Silence opens a fascinating new chapter for Pate, introducing a compositional vision that draws equally from post-bop idioms and contemporary classical music.