A decade after the first Castanets LP, Raposa has reprised the name for Decimation Blues, a fragmented 12-song album that trends toward the same path that he already spent five albums exploring.

Over the course of three albums and a grip of other songs Castanets main dude Ray Raposa has shown that he is capable of creating some of the more atmospheric country-folk we've heard in awhile.

The Castanets is Ray Raposa, a San Diego native whose album City of Refuge is an exercise in solitude. Raposa recorded the album in Overton, Nevada, a two-bar town ...

Like a good insomniac, Raymond Raposa has a psychic anchor of 4:00 a.m. While most people are either curled fetal under blankets or hauling recycling bins to the curb, Raposa is awake and busy, ...

Often dismissed as little more than a niche songwriter futzing with the boundaries of his own woodsy, quasi-Americana palate, Ray Raposa (a.k.a. Castanets) has remained a sorely overlooked act. Often ...

Since the early days of Donald Trump’s political rise, mental health experts have argued over the ethics of diagnosing the once-and-wannabe-again POTUS from a distance. There is one stark precedent, ...

Singer-songwriter Ray Raposa is settling down. By way of proof he offers this: “I have roommates and we have chickens, we are raising chickens in the backyard.” While for most of us this is domestic ...

No score yet, be the first to add. "I do not want to explain, and I'm not going to," Raymond Raposa sings on "Dancing With Someone (Privilege of Everything)". He's not just whistling "Dixie", although ...

Castanets is the alias of Raymond Raposa, an indie-folk journeyman who comes across as particularly world-weary on In the Vines, his third album from Sufjan Stevens’ label Asthmatic Kitty Records.