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Gigs: “The Ray Mann Three” turns Ten – Live in Sydney

Hometown live show, celebrating Ray Mann’s debut album.

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Sketches: My favourite image from the new album that’s – psssst – available today!

As an artist who is DIY by default, not by design or intent (if I had the resources or the good fortune to be able to employ more capable and talented people than myself to handle the business and art of this project, I totally would), perhaps my favourite image of The Sketches Project is the Fellini-esque video I managed to shoot with blessedly generous collaborator Daniela Rastlos. It’s one of the rare occasions where I’ve managed to get an idea out of my head and into the world more or less intact, and the good fortune to have found a collaborator with whom I created something I could never have done on my own.

This video is, simply, a pretty girl dancing barefoot in the woods to my song. What made Daniela’s contribution more brazen, however, was the fact that we shot the video in the “mild” Berlin winter – 0 degrees – with her robed in nothing more than a summer dress and a fierce commitment to my vision. Hope you enjoy the result as much as I do.

The Sketches album is out now on CD and iTunes.

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Sketches: new album out today in Japan

Japan, as we all know, is ahead of the world in many ways – and from today, in one more. Sketches, the long-awaited second album from The Ray Mann Three, is released today through Japanese label P-Vine, and is available on CD or in mp3 format.

The rest of the world will have to wait until September 18 for their Sketches album goodness – but you can pre-order the album if you’re on our email list…

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The Sketches Project | What is Sketches?

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‘Sketches’: The Video Album

The second album from The Ray Mann Three is called Sketches. It’s available worldwide on CD and iTunes, out in Japan through P-Vine, and streaming on Spotify and Soundcloud.

The album was created as part of an ongoing audience collaboration series called The Sketches Project.

Nine music videos were created by Ray Mann, during production of the 15-track Sketches album. Here is the complete collection – each Sketch is accompanied by a link to see the process of how it was created.

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Sketch #1 | ‘Showya’ | Sep 2011
CD | iTunes | See the Process
Featuring the best gift you were ever given

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Sketch #2 | ‘Babylon’ | Oct 2011
CD | iTunes | See the Process
Featuring yr werds.

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Sketch #3 | ‘Who’s Loving You’ | Nov 2011
CD | iTunes | See the Process
Featuring your dance moves.

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Sketch #4 | ‘Bleeding’ | Dec 2011
CD | iTunes | See the Process
Featuring things you have said ‘Goodbye’ to.

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Sketch #5 | ‘Wannado’ | Jan 2012
CD | iTunes | See the Process
Featuring things you wanna do.

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Sketch #6 | ‘Soapbox’ | Mar 2012
CD | iTunes | See the Process
Featuring your ways of blowing off steam.

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Sketch #7 | ‘Sometimes’ | April 2012
CD | iTunes | See the process
Featuring things you’d hit somebody with

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Sketch #8 | ‘Hold Onto Me’ | May-June 2012
CD | iTunes | See the process
Featuring whatever it is you’re looking for

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Sketch #9 | ‘So Long Farewell’ | July 2012
CD | iTunes | See the process
Featuring somewhere you’d escape to

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What is Sketches? | Find out more about the Sketches album

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