Music of The Years Gone By

by Ryan El-Solh

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	1.	In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning 02:26
	2.	Lonnie's Lament 02:44
	3.	Laura 03:04
	4.	I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You 03:43
	5.	Rest 02:55
	6.	Sarabande 02:21
	7.	If I Loved You 01:58
	8.	Bygones 02:17

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It stands to reason that the pandemic has spawned so many guitar instrumental records, but you’d be hard-pressed to find one in the vein of Music of the Years Gone By. its selections span centuries, from J.S. Bach to some of Frank Sinatra’s signature “saloon songs” to El-Solh’s own originals. But if you’re imagining rote run-throughs of this material on a nylon string or on a cranked-down amp in a Starbucks, you couldn’t be further from the mark. With breathtaking skill and sensitivity to his source material, El-Solh turns in a record of ballads that is often as unsettling—and sometimes heavy—as it is gorgeous.

Music of the Years Gone By’s 22 minutes are full of styles and musical impulses that may, on paper, seem contradictory. However, the lightning ride through music history it takes us on doesn’t really feel like a journey at all. Every track is firmly grounded in El-Solh’s bold and inimitable voice as a stylist, resulting in an unforgettable album that is as fun and accessible as it is accomplished.

- Winston Cook-Wilson

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released May 21, 2021

Arranged, performed and recorded by Ryan El-Solh at home, January-April 2021.
Mixed and mastered by Ryan Weiner
Design and layout by Benedict Kupstas using "Studies on Twilight Phenomena After Krakatoa" (1888) by Eduard Pechuël-Loesche

Utmost gratitude to Carmen Rothwell for teaching me how to record, and to her and Ryan Weiner for their kind and considerate feedback at every step of the process 

"Rest" and "Bygones" composed by Ryan El-Solh
"In the Wee Small Hours" by David Mann & Bob Hilliard
"Lonnie's Lament" by John Coltrane
"Ghost of a Chance" by Victor Young, Ned Washington & Bing Crosby 
"Sarabande" by J.S Bach, from Partita for Violin no. 1, BMV 1002)
"If I Loved You" by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein

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