10 track album - available now at https://brendaray.bandcamp.com/Jan.2022
Thanks for all 'listening ears'

'The new “fragrant” collection covers ambient-washed conscious rap – hip-hop-influenced, sample-saturated selections, busy with horns and Blaxploitation boogie licks. Jive collages of `50s radio and movie dialogue. There’s sexy latin jazz syncopation and out there orchestration........Theme From A Tall Dark Stranger, originally recorded by Brenda, with The Beachballs, in 1986, makes a Return, in a beefed-up reading. Hypnotic, conga`d, tabla`d, kinda new beat clanking beneath its melodica and dubwise echo. There’s dramatic ZTT-esque disco drama, and happy, loved-up, pop house....... “Put joy in your heart".......' 
http://banbantonton.com/

'Applying a distinctly dubwise experimental approach to these burgeoning genres along with her characteristic pop sensibility the results are nothing short of spectacular ranging from the hazy melodica led blissed out dub epic 'Return Of Theme From A Tall Dark Stranger' to the bass thumping proto-hip hop of 'Dancehall Exocet' to the heartbreakingly beautiful dub smudged house of 'Spirit's So High.' As you can imagine there's a wealth of riches to be enjoyed here..........."
https://dubwisevinyl.com/products/brenda-ray-perfume-of-the-soul-lp'

'This collection of ten very classy sounding Balearic pop songs actually consists of unreleased material from 1989-1991, a fact you'd never have guessed from merely listening to it. Brenda is a UK based singer and producer, and during the 80s frontperson of Brenda and the Beachballs (whose 'Theme From A Tall Dark Stranger' makes a return in a new form here), and the palate of influences does revolve around the best the decade had to offer.......
........exquisite listening that doesn't let its sophistication distract from a gentle sense of adventure and charm'
www.juno.co.uk/products/brenda-ray-perfume-of-the-soul/865279-01/ 

Stuart “Chuggy” Leath’s excellent experiment in record archaeology comes up trumps yet again, bringing this collection of previously unreleased material to a vinyl record in a shop near you! For those of you familiar with Brenda Ray’s work, from her now highly sought after classic mini-LP as Brenda And The Beachballs, too her two fabulous, more recent releases on Manchester’s Aficionado Recordings, you will know what to expect here. For those of you not already hip to the joy of Brenda’s music, it might be quite hard to put into words. Imagine, if you will, a sort of experimental, electronic, house-meets-bossa-nova-dub-pop. Something like A.R. Kane, meets It’s Immaterial, with a bit of Augustus Pablo thrown in. It really is a weird and wonderful, and totally original body of work, all recorded between 1989-91 in her home studio in the North West of England.
https://soundcloud.com/balearic-mike

from my archived Master analogue tapes(non-released on vinyl)
vinyl tba via emotional recordings Sept/Oct 2022
© 2022 - All Rights Reserved - Brenda Ray(Kenny)
naffi studio
causey cuts recordings

Brenda Ray - PERFUME OF THE SOUL - Album (clips)

1. Brenda - vocalyrics/chimes/'melodica/vslap/xylo/pixiphone+mix/prod.
Basso - Barfuss in den vollen Weiden Bomb EDIT + voices from Basso, his Uncle and Nephew https://soundcloud.com/buzzy-bird
http://testpressing.org/2017/12/2017-our-friends-family-pick-their-favourites/
2. Brenda - vocalyrics/'melodica/vslap/chimes/marimba/pixi +mix/prod.
Basso - unearthed another crate corker!! + Uncle Bussi/Basso vox/lyrics
https://banbantonton.com/2017/11/17/b-b-boogaloo-bbb/
'Possible the best Balearic 7 inch this year' Kenneth Bager - https://soundcloud.com/music-for-dreams
'Balearic record of the week, 7" of the year!' Patrick - Piccadilly Records
'love it' - Phil 'Cantoma' Mison
https://boomkat.com/products/crest-of-a-wave

Twist That Crest - Brenda und Basso

All Rights Reserved - Brenda Ray(Kenny)created/recorded/produced/mixed at "naffi studio" Cheshire
digital - https://brendaray.bandcamp.com/album/digi-drifts-ep
vinyl -  nado 24 - Aficionado Recordings
http://musicfordreams.dk/2017/09/27/hot-this-week-33/
https://boomkat.com/charts/2017/509

Celestial / spiritual balearic sounds - big from from Nado as they unleash Brenda Ray again - Check it out , much more than a beach record! 
vinyl underground

Flute. A fizz of dubbed-out percussion. Skanking keys. Strings, sighs and wordless harmony. Brenda`s beloved “shimmering top end”. The music winking sexily. Whispering pillow talk. A late Summer`s night dream. The first two tracks exuding a definite dusk ambience. The more urgent Skip Hop To Bop moves slinky. Like House with its kick stripped away. Scat vocals. Melodica. A lullaby on vibes. Echoing Ennio Morricone`s poignant cinematic pocket watch chimes.
banbantonton

'.......... Brenda B Ray returns with three more Balearic spellbinders... "Solartude" eases us in slowly with a limping, soft arpeggio that's shrouded in chimes and a growing orchestral warmth, "Space Dustin'" removes any traces of drum for an ambient sojourn into a night sky as the strings take a back seat for swooning moments of melted vocal harmonisation. "Skip Hop To Bop" closes on an upbeat note with a layered synths tease back and forth over roomy kicks and majestic beds of chimes. One of a kind'.
Juno Records


....keen to capture the coastal cool....... Aficionado summon strange-wave sorceress Brenda Ray for another hit of her interplanetary excellence. Wandering from new age haze to celestial rays on this tripped out trio, our genre blending genius takes the fourth world into the fifth dimension of psychedelic sound. 
.......... 'Solartude', an out-of-body beauty bathes us in swirling flute, dreamy chimes and shimmering tape delay before sending us off towards the Orient. Eastern tones and hushed vocals ride a glistening sequence in  this flawless fusion of exotica and dub suggests a medicated Martin Denny stumbling out of Chinatown and into a humid mangrove.
 'Space Dustin', a lunar lullaby for lucid dreamers.... floating free of space and time, perhaps you too can glimpse the excellent birds. 
.... the temperature begins to rise. 'Skip, Hop To Bop' sees Brenda dabbling with dub Techno, setting Basic Channel synths and stirring strings to a skittering rhythm. Dislocated and disoriented we descend into a strange subterranean world of Rothschild parties, Lynchian noir and muffled Techno. surrounded by swirling voices, shuffling percussion grabs hold of you and all that remains is to sway. 
Patrick - Piccadilly Records

DIGI DRIFTS ep - 2015

1. digital 
3. digital/cd 
available at https://brendaray.bandcamp.com
2. https://cantomamusic.bandcamp.com/album/just-landed
1. 1988 & 2018
2. 2016
3. 1981 & 2012

3+ decades

PERFUME OF THE SOUL

Love's The Most (Acoustic)

Love's The Most (Acoustic) (clip)

Return Of Theme From A Tall Dark Stranger

Return Of Theme From A Tall Dark Stranger(clip)

This Was No Dream

This Was No Dream (clip)

Dancehall Exocet

Dancehall Exocet (clip)

Hope

Hope (clip)

Love's The Most

Love's The Most (clip)

Spirit's So High

Spirit's So High (clip)

Universal Purpose

Universal Purpose (clip)

...one of my' archived analogue antics'....
Respect - Brother Jack McDuff

Mmmmoon Wrap

......another dug-out from archives of my analogue Master Tape(s)......
as Brenda and The BeachBalls.
Brenda - drums/perc./vocals.  
D.Clarke - fiddle      
F.Viaduct - bass
All Rights Reserved  - Brenda Ray(B.K.)
r/p - 5 piece ex B.B.C. mixing console with reverse platinum faders and inbuilt reverb! ... looong gone....

(this title not same as my T.W.D. 7" vinyl - recorded 1994 /released 2001)

Everyday Another Dream

Brenda Ray D'Ya Hear Me! Naffi Years 1979-1983

D'Ya Hear Me!

D'ya Hear Me! naffi  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - Brenda Ray

mix/prod. Brenda Ray(Kenny) at/of "naffi studio" Cheshire U.K.- played 'melodica, xylo/pixiphone, chimes, eggs, vocals,triangle.
A.r.t. Wilson, Melbourne - sun sign aries mix/synths/drum machines  https://soundcloud.com/andraaaaaas
All Rights Reserved Ray/Wilson 2014

Shimmer and Sway(Dawn Dance)

Shimmer and Sway (Dawn Dance) Brenda Ray and A.r.t. Wilson

With Respect - Andreas Vollenweider
cartwheel crest
Brenda -  vocalyrics/chimes/'melodica/vslap/xylo/pixiphone and mixed/produced. 
Basso - Barfuss in den vollen Weiden EDIT + voice from Basso, his Uncle and Nephew

Crest Of A Wave

CREST OF A WAVE

2014
played casio keyboard strings/vocals + ornetteorbit
comp/mix/record/prod.
August 2017 - skippin' now at a shore nearby....
vinyl nado 24

Digi Drifts ep

Space Dustin'

26/5/2014
Brenda played strings/percussion//xylo/pixiphone/vocals/mix/prod.
Basso - @buzzy-bird SLICES EDIT

SLICES AND SPICES

2014
comp/mix/record/produced-Brenda - naffi studio
played - codeg bells/flute/keyboard strings/vocals/brushes + kk
August 2017 - vinyl nado 24

Solartude

https://thump.vice.com/en_uk/article/yp4byx/bliss-out-with-mark-barrotts-past-present-and-future-of-balearic-playlist
...........one track here from my master tape archived analogue 
Brenda and The BeachBalls - VOLUME ONE - 5 track mini album (P.P.17T)
All Rights Reserved - Brenda Ray (B.K.)
Brenda - snare drum/cymbal/SH-101 and RSO9 bass and strings/vocal/
flexatone/triangle/xylo/pixiphone/whistlin' 
Freddie Viaduct - electric bass
Dave Clarke - fiddle/vox
Big Jo Ross - tenor sax'
Paul 'spark' Higham
r/p - Brenda - on 8 track analogue 1" Scully + B.B.C. mixing console with reverse platinum faders and inbuilt reverb!

Theme From A Tall Dark Stranger

mix/prod and played live percuss/vocals/keyboard for strings/brass etc - Brenda
another of my 'arkived analogue'.
Respect - Charles Lloyd/Cecil McBee

Tequila Sam

another archived version of my Theme From A Tall Dark Stranger as Brenda 'BeachBall' Kenny
(c) 1984 - B.K.
(p) 1987 - B.K.
featuring "Chop Walker"
Bugs On The Wire - limited vinyl release 1987
digital self release - 2014

Chandgari

Chandgari (trunc'd)

..........a happy little groove thang oddity......
whistle while you play/rest/work...:}
Brenda - played couple of flutes/percussion/mix....
Yeah.......another 'Slice of Finest Finds' From Basso

BRENDAFRICA

After whetting our appetites with the Aperol Spritz of his recent ‘Tabarin’ 12” on Highwood, Phil Mison returns with the first Cantoma LP in six years, a gorgeous collection of summery moods and sultry grooves called ‘Just Landed’. Guitar in hand, the Cafe Del Mar legend leads us through shimmering heat haze to a distant horizon where azure waves meet an endless blue sky.

‘Just Landed’ finds Phil Mison in imperious form, showing off a lifetime of musical experience and calling on a who’s who of Balearic legends to help him deliver the finest Cantoma LP to date.

8 - Clear Coast

Brenda - mix/prod. + vocalyrics/'melodica/vslap/chimes/marimba/pixi
Basso - unearthed another crate corker!! + vox Uncle Bussi/Basso https://soundcloud.com/buzzy-bird

5/8/16 - This is truly lovely. A perfect summer driving record.
Magnifique!
moonboots - Aficionado Recordings

Twistin' Times

TWISTIN' TIMES

......a little light summer entertainment from my 'shelved archives'........no music samples with a knight of the realm contribution/approval..



BOTH (r.mix ii)

2015 - comp/mix/prod. played all instr/vocals/inc. keybd for bass/strings+ kk at naffi studio
August 2017 - skippin' now at a shore nearby....DIGI DRIFTS ep viny/digital
Solartude/Space Dustin'/Skip Hop To Bop
All Rights Reserved - Brenda Ray

Skip Hop To Bop

Brenda And The Beachballs – Dancing Thru’ The Night (5:11)

Brenda Ray(Kenny)melodyist/rhythmist - vocals and live hand played instruments. composer/mixer/producer at home style...naffi studio.
♪tactile manual mixin'♪...analogue with a sprinkling of digi. vu's rule.
! Tnx for all 'listening ears and comments' !

Brenda B Ray

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