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Ryan Van Dordrecht - Album Release with Megan Diane

  • Mississippi Studios 3939 North Mississippi Avenue Portland, OR, 97227 United States (map)

Ryan Van Dordrecht

Ryan releases his 10-song collection, “Undone” of finely-crafted, 1970s-style singer-songwriter album with a modern, alt-country flair. “Undone is the kind of thing that happens in your personal and creative lives when you stop trying to control everything,” the Portland, Oregon-based artist details. “Undone is a milestone entry in Ryan’s four studio-album oeuvre. Its breezy, 1970s AOR sensibility harkens back to formative influences such as Bruce Springsteen, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, and Bonnie Raitt. “In the past, I got away from the sounds I grew up on, and I sometimes tried to do what I thought people wanted to hear,” Ryan shares. Undone’s modern vintage aesthetic recalls artists such as War On Drugs, Jenny Lewis, Father John Misty, Neal Francis, and Phoebe Bridgers. Previously, Ryan played in the pop-Americana band Sidestar which earned opening spots with Cake, Death Cab for Cutie, and played the Northwest college circuit. Next, he played in the emo alt-rock band Castella which amassed over 10 million streams on Spotify, and earned opening spots with Gin Blossoms, Jude, and Storm Large.

MEGAN DIANE

is is pioneering a new genre: DREAM COUNTRY DISCO. What does this mean? Take your favorite vintage keyboard — hello Wurlitzer, hello Fender Rhodes — put them through an echo/delay pedal, add lush, dreamy layers of French horn and vocals, anchor them with throwback drum grooves, and top it all off with space echoed pedal steel guitar ANOTHER GLORY is the cool project of Revival Drums, Jose Medeles (Breeders, Joey Ramone, Modest Mouse, and a million others) .