CD RELEASE PARTY

Praise for At War With Walls & Mazes

"Not one song on this album is below the highest echelon of trip hop and electronic music. It is nearly flawless." - Nick Greer, sputnikmusic

"It will take some sort of miraculous effort to unseat this one as the best album of 2008. - Andy Whitman of Paste

"Affecting, resonant, and engaging. There are lights in the darkness and a holy ghost in the Son Lux machine. The lyrical concerns of Sufjan Stevens circa Seven Swans, production techniques from Massive Attack, and the classical habits of Nico Muhly." - Evan McGarvey, pitchfork

"New York-based composer-turned-beatmaker Son Lux is one of those artistically adventurous outsiders. At War With Walls & Mazes is a hallucinatory vortex of Classical, Jazz, Soul, Rock and Electronica. Yes, it's just another excuse to shout 'SON!!!'" - El Keter, Okayplayer

"One of the most eerie and otherworldly albums in recent memory, but it's also one of the most gloriously human." - J Lincoln Hurst

"A dense, meticulously crafted haze of Baroque instrumentation, electronic pulses and hip-hop beats." - Mehan Jayasuriya, popmatters

"At War with Walls and Mazes defies genre and proves that the mathematics of music can be bent and at times even broken. From minimal elevator sounds to orchestral grandeur, Son Lux is defiant, wondrous, and illuminating." - B.A. Herndon

"Dynamic atmospheric tunnels of sound that quake and curl in your head." - Faith-Ann Young, RCRDLBL

"Music that undulates at a half-step ahead of the curve." - Jake Krolick, jambase

"5/5 stars." - Paul Ford, The Morning News

"Simultaneously engaging and hypnotic." Amelia Raitt, eMusic

"Son Lux has allowed the listener to listen to music without listening to songs, like a poet allows the reader to read words without sense, or at least any traditional sense. In this respect, Son Lux also opens the mind's eye." - Paul Bozzo, treblezine

"Like a well-written story desperate to share every detail, At War takes its time and savors each moment." - XLR8R

"Ryan Lott, a.k.a. Son Lux, picks up where many classical crossover artists seem to jump off." - Paste

"Tracks organically mutate from opera-hall-sized compositions with car-speaker-rattling hip-hop beats to bare-all dim-lit bedroom intimateness. A superb and multifaceted album. More amazing is the fact that it is the work of one man." - Matt Whelihan, Free Times

SON LUX DEBUT OUT MAR 11 ON ANTICON.

*PRE-ORDER IT HERE Ships February 29th*

Excerpt from work in progress

The Distance Between Us {excerpt} (click for a free mp3)



this is a track i wrote this summer for Gina Gibney Dance, a modern dance company here in NYC with whom i've collaborated over the last few years. this is an excerpt from a large-scale work called The Distance Between Us, premiering the end of november here in new york. enjoy!

for more: Son Lux on Myspace

(son lux is ryan lott. to contact ryan directly, email him at lottmusic [at] gmail [dot] com)

Absolut

I'm now composing music for Fluid NY, a music and editorial house in manhttan.

check out one of my first spots on Fluid's home page: fluidny.com

it's an ad primarily for Europe and select US markets.

also, i'm still working on a large-scale work for Gina Gibney Dance, which will premier at the Citigroup Theater in NYC in novemeber. here's another excerpt of the work in progress:

Vocals in this excerpt are by Katie Chastain, with whom i'll be doing some shows around NYC in the fall.

( ( ( click to listen ) ) )

New Son Lux Blog

THE NEW SON LUX BLOG IS HERE

son lux album artwork in-progress

for several months, Joshue Ott created dozens of beautiful images for the son lux album artwork. though many of them could have worked beautifully, this one's the one. thank you, joshue!



(son lux is ryan lott. to contact ryan directly, email him at lottmusic [at] gmail [dot] com)