Organic

With the new 2012 album ORGANIC, Ras Alan has sustainably harvested songs and stories from the experiential Appalachian World Wide asthetic. He and his family built the studio the CD was recorded in, using spruce, bamboo and locally milled hemlock lumber. The recording computer was assembled from collected parts and tracked the live performances of instruments including Ras Alan's handmade flat top guitar, resonator, classical and Stratocaster guitars, mandolin, piano, organ, bass, drumkit, hand drums and percussion. He recorded ORGANIC as the organic garden just outside the studio window went from compost, to seed, to mason jars...