Phen Ray (Stephen Murray) is a musician, producer born and raised in Barbados who lives and works in Vancouver BC. With a sound that is born out of an interest in music from the fringes of experimentation, Phen Ray fuses the most sincere elements of what draws us to music and the most basic intonations that revive the spirit of musical innovation. Working with his own experimental noise band “Cock Fang”from 2005 -2008 to his work with artists Kelis, Toronto avant garde band LAL, Witch Prophet, Sitka based artist Nicholas Galanin “Indian Agent”’ and to currently scoring a CBC series “Black Life: A Canadian History, his compositions generate overtones more compelling to the listener than the sum of their parts -- it is this that makes them so powerful.
