Great work on this music,  love the build up, Great jam !

Dont Be Scared

All The Night

In a world so vast and empty, illusions fade.
Whispers in the silent night, lost in dreams, lost in silence.
Truth lies in dreams
Looking for a box to put my nightmares in 
Searching for what cannot be found,
In your eyes shines a world not quite as it appears.

Truth Lies In Dreams

Façade

Vesper

SciFiSky
Song: "Entropy"
Album: Spontaneity / Live Recordings: 6th Session - May 2018

"Entropy" is probably our favorite live recording. Considering its spontaneity, the quality, layers, the different sounds, and the shifts really impressed us upon listening back. We have since re-recorded it into an official song (which is still under construction), and intend to include it on a future album. 

At long last, we have finally uploaded our sixth and most recent jam session. This is the most dynamically diverse and highest quality of our spontaneous albums thus far. Ranging from distorted electric guitars alongside synths and pounding drums, to hypnotic ambient washes with pulsating brushed drums atop synth pads, to stripped-down, raw acoustic tracks consisting merely of two guitars, this session consists of both improvised jams and re-attempts at a few tracks that we previously devised during past sessions.

Recorded live at home in a converted garage by Jonathan Carey (guitar) and Evan Witkowski (drums, keys, drum machine, percussion).

Photography / Album Art by SciFiSky

SciFiSky 2018

Spontaneity / Live Recordings: 6th Assembly - May 2018

66 Entropy (Earliest Iteration) (Live Spontaneous Jam)

2023-12-09

The Way Home

All music written, recorded and performed by Ryan J Raffa in Taipei, Taiwan during late 2021 on moog matriarch, modular, fender rhodes, snare drums, cymbals, percussion, op1, tape machines, and field recorders.

Every sound was captured for this specific occasion

Mastering by Taylor Deupree
Vinyl cut by Barry "Baza" Grint at Alchemy
Layout by Drew Heffron
Photographs by Ryan J Raffa

4 e and a is about the infinite spaces between. As a classically trained percussionist, Raffa sat in front of a metronome for the majority of their life. And in their mind, they would play with the spaces between those clicks. In especially challenging times, Ryan would attempt to expand and stretch those spaces into forever. Just existing in the between. This record is about these moments (and places) when we are living in those infinite spaces.

That time of intense musical focus was also Ryan's first introduction to an analog synthesizer. As a teenager, their drum teacher was Herb Flower, an incredible human with light beams of creative energy pouring out of him and his musical family at all times. A parent of another student of Mr. Flower’s was an electrical engineer who had recently been laid off during large cutbacks at Carrier, one of the major employers at that time in Syracuse where Raffa grew up. This parent, with their newly acquired free time, hand-built a drum machine, housed in a large wooden cabinet with 8 or so unmarked knobs, and they gave this synthesizer to Mr. Flower. The sound from that machine was glorious. And Mr. Flower, their drum teacher, would turn a few knobs, make a pattern and have me play along with it during rehearsal. These moments were such a gift, and I know those moments are still reverberating today. Raffa thinks about that time of experimentation, of exploration, of shared love of sound and music as a place that they can go to, a place we can all go to, whenever we choose.

4 e and a

Thoughtful In Late Nights

26Dec23

Cover art generated using ArtSpace.ai

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Imaginary friends made of felt and sticks

K G G - Altered Reality

Scorched Earth

Watch "A Final Run," now streaming on YouTube, featuring original music by SciFiSky:

https://youtu.be/2NvC1FqUYPk?si=zCwkE4MBWUNznRQe

Indie Rock, Art Rock, Alternative, Soundtrack, Instrumental, Ambient, Jam Band

Converted garage band formed in 2016 in a small New Mexico desert town.

Jonathan Carey - Guitar, Bass, Keys, Drum Machine
Evan Witkowski - Drums, Guitar, Bass, Keys, Percussion

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66 Entropy (Earliest Iteration) (Live Spontaneous Jam)

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