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Seabuckthron

Red Dead Redemption II Ambient Country

Copy of Red Dead Redemption II Ambient Country

A House With Too Much Fire

Seabuckthorn [Andy Cartwright (UK) - Acoustic Guitar Solo Project]

This Soundtrack came exclusively with the William Ryan Fritch - Leave Me Sessions Subscription, which is now sold out.  However "The Old Believers (Extended Edition) is now available for the first time ever to the public here: https://williamryanfritch.bandcamp.com/album/the-old-believers-extended-edition

The Old Believers (Extended Edition)

The Old Believers

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William Ryan Fritch - The Old Believers (from The Old Believers Extended Edition)

Comes To Light

A collaboration with Rafael Anton Irisarri from his album 'Reverie' (http://www.discogs.com/Rafael-Anton-Irisarri-Reverie/release/2218962)
An Arvo Pärt piano piece with added electronics and ambient texture.

Arvo Pärt's 'Für Alina' (with Rafael Anton Irisarri)

A live performance of an Aphex Twin piano piece for prepared piano.

Jynweythek (aphex twin cover)

Traditions

William Ryan Fritch - Traditions (from The Old Believers Extended Edition)

Ljósið

Near Light

Left Behind (Together) - Gustavo Santaolalla

A collection of songs played mainly on an open C tuned resonator guitar & an open A tuned 12-string acoustic guitar. 
Melodies coming from guitar improvisations, heard in dreams, misheard in reality, all of which continued to invade my thoughts, a driving force for inspiration to record during my time living in Paris. These songs did indeed haunt me most thickly. 

Let The Night In

They Haunted Most Thickly And Sang

Heavy Calm animated music video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDSoox28iBQ&feature=youtu.be

Heavy Calm

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In 2014, William Ryan Fritch and Lost Tribe Sound embarked on a massive undertaking to release a series of 12 albums from Fritch over a two year period. Known as the ‘Leave Me Series,’ it covered a wide spectrum of sound, including two soundtracks offered as series exclusives from Fritch’s work for film during that period. For the subscribers who had the chance to hear these original soundtracks for the films, ‘The Old Believers’ and ‘The Sum Of Its Parts,’ they were heralded as two of the most prized and cohesive scores in Fritch’s vast catalog. 

Knowing how loved these works became, LTS has decided to open the musical vaults and make these albums available to the public for the first time. In addition, ‘The Old Believers’ album has received quite the facelift since it first appeared in the series. Along with the new cover artwork, Fritch has rearranged and incorporated 8 new compositions.The additional music was taken from two other recent films that also center around the plight of those that are displaced and seeking refuge (including 2016’s academy award nominated documentary ‘4.1 Miles’).These new pieces offer engrossing textures and beautiful themes that unlock new depths to the solemn meditations of its previous iteration.

As for ‘The Sum Of Its Parts,’ the feature film from award winning filmmaker/editor Fiona Otway’s introduces some of the world’s foremost robot researchers alongside tomorrow’s future leaders in robotics. This film explores the messy front lines of the crusade to make robots part of our everyday experience. From initial sketches, to soldering wires, to programming actions and performing experiments “in the wild”, scientists, high school students, and artists obsessed with bringing robots to life are shaping a new era in our relationship with technology. Yet, by observing their successes and failures along the way, what becomes clear is that robots actually have a lot to teach us about what it means to be human. ‘The Sum of Its Parts’ is a celebration of hands-on human creativity, and a contemplation of our deep need for connection and community as a source of meaning in our lives.

‘The Sum of Its Parts’ soundtrack, composed and performed entirely by William Ryan Fritch, is a dynamic counterpart to the film’s central themes and philosophical inquiries. The score’s markedly organic instrumentation (string ensemble, french horn, vibraphone and prepared piano), is wrought into circuitous rhythms and patterns that hum, churn and grind with a mechanical steadiness that belies the achingly human and expressive compositions they propel.

It should be noted, that calling ‘The Old Believers’ and ‘Sum Of Its Parts’ soundtracks paints an incomplete picture. Too often the genre or classification of “soundtrack” brings to mind sloppily arranged carbon copies of a film’s cues; often just a few main themes and a collection of one minute tracks that, when not set to picture, fall short of an overall worthy listen.  

This is where Fritch’s soundtracks truly separate themselves. For LTS released soundtracks (such as 2013’s ‘The Waiting Room’ or 2016’s ‘Birkitshi’) Fritch spends a great deal of time after the film is finished making the soundtrack experience stand on its own, making sure it tells an incredibly strong story even without the visuals. This attention to detail becomes evident when listening to masterful ebb and flow of an album like ‘The Old Believers.’ While it’s just semantics, Fritch’s “soundtracks” could easily sit right along side the most cohesive LP’s out there.

Cover Photo courtesy of Grayeme (www.flickr.com/photos/_____graeme/) 
Cover photo modified by Ryan Keane

Feeble Dreams

William Ryan Fritch - Feeble Dreams (from The Old Believers - Extended Edition)

Peter Fonda's "The Hired Hand"

Leaving Del Norte

From Upcoming Album - A House With Too Much Fire
1st June 2018

Inner

Submerged Past

Somewhat Like Vision

The Cloud And The Redness

From a various artists compilation on Eilean Rec

Various Artists

After Image

Through A Vulnerable Occur

While There By The Woods

A very special Danny Norbury remix of a track from the upcoming 5" vinyl on Brian Records.

London Bridge, Friday, 2.30pm (Danny Norbury Remix)

Come Eluding I

'Seabuckthorn' is the solo work of Andy Cartwright.
Exploring various approaches on guitars, with fingerpicking, bowing and slides, often with layered accompaniments