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Ra Guitarist, Ben Carroll, Releases Solo Album

Posted by satch - June 29th, 2009

Ben CarrollUniversal recording artist, Ben Carroll, releases his first solo effort, A Dream Between Two Fires. Carroll, lead guitarist for the band “Ra” (Universal/SMR) has spent the past three years conceptualizing and recording the album in between tours and recording sessions with “Ra” (Universal/SMR) which has released 4 albums over the past 6 years with a combined sales total of over half a million units. Carroll says, “A Dream Between Two Fires is the record I’ve wanted to make my whole life, I’ve always been driven to do an instrumental record that follows on the footsteps of guys like Joe Satriani & Steve Vai.”

Along with writing, arranging, producing, engineering and mixing A Dream Between Two Fires, Carroll laid down every track. “This record motivated me to keep innovating my guitar playing and overall musical style, as well as motivating me to learn engineering, mixing, editing, programming and all other aspects of studio work. I wanted to have full artistic freedom and be totally in charge of the end result.”

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Ra’s new record Black Sheep is now available!

Posted by satch - June 10th, 2009

As fans will tell you, some of the best, most unique Ra songs were never released on any record. Catchy tracks like “The Foundation” and “Busted” have been floating around for years, but never officially made public.

Black Sheep has finally changed that!

Ra’s latest record offers some new material, but also a list of gems that have been remastered for release. I know I speak for a lot of fans when saying .. it’s about time!

Get your copy of Black Sheep

Here is some information about the tracks, posted from Ra’s Myspace:

For those of you who purchase “Black Sheep”…here are the liner notes…

1. Cross of snow
Written by Sahaj Ticotin and Nandi Johannes
Performed by Sahaj Ticotin- Bass, vox, Nandi Johannes- Guitars and Frank Katz- Drums

1994-One of the first songs to capture what eventually would become Ra’s sound. Notice the arabic influence and the stop and go chorus…just like in “Rectifier”

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