Rich Ruth True Red Vinyl Water Still Flows Vinyl LP 2024

1. Action At A Distance
2. Crying In The Trees
3. God Won't Speak
4. No Muscle No Memory
5. Aspiring To The Sky
6. Blue Shell
7. Somewhere In Time

Rich Ruth, the recording project of Nashville multi-instrumentalist Michael Ruth, makes wholly immersive instrumental songs that thread the line between gleefully adventurous and calmingly meditative. His music starts in solitude with mesmerizing loops and drones anchoring the arrangements that are eventually colored in by an eclectic cast of collaborators. The resulting exploratory compositions, which combine spiritual jazz, synthinfused post-rock, and cosmic ambient, often beguile but they always soar with a palpable immediacy. His new album Water Still Flows is both his heaviest and his most cathartic. Across seven songs, the LP is both a document of an artist stretching the limits of his process and a testament to how songwriting can be a personally grounding force.