J. Ralph

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Josh Ralph — usually credited as J. Ralph — (born 1975) is an American composer, producer, singer/songwriter and social activist. His professional career began when he was signed to Atlantic Records at the age of 22 as a recording artist. He is the founder of the music production company The Rumor Mill, and has written and produced the music for numerous artists and has received a number of Grammy and Academy Awards. His music has sold more than 10 million records world wide and has charted in over 22 countries.

Music career

Described by The Hollywood Reporter as the "go-to producer of documentary film scores", J. Ralph has mostly produced music for documentaries. Over the last seven years, he has written and produced the music for six Oscar nominated documentary feature films including Man on Wire (2009),The Cove (2010),Hell and Back Again (2012),Chasing Ice (2013),Finding Vivian Maier (2015), and Virunga (2015). For his contribution to Chasing Ice, J. Ralph received an Oscar nomination for his song "Before My Time", performed by Scarlett Johansson and Joshua Bell. It remains one of only six songs (along with his song Manta Ray from Racing Extinction 2015) from a documentary ever to be nominated for an Oscar. Additionally J. Ralph is the first composer in Academy Award's history to write and produce the original music for multiple Oscar nominated documentary films in the same year.

Bay of Pigs

Coordinates: 22°13′N 81°10′W / 22.217°N 81.167°W / 22.217; -81.167

The Bay of Pigs (Spanish: Bahía de Cochinos) is an inlet of the Gulf of Cazones located on the southern coast of Cuba. By 1910, it was included in Santa Clara Province, and then instead to Las Villas Province by 1961, but in 1976, it was reassigned to Matanzas Province, when the original six provinces of Cuba were re-organized into 14 new Provinces of Cuba.

Geography

This bay is approximately 30 kilometers South of Jagüey Grande, 70 kilometers west of the city of Cienfuegos, and 150 kilometers southeast from the capital city Havana. On the western side of the bay, coral reefs border the main Zapata Swamp, part of the Zapata Peninsula. On the eastern side, beaches border margins of firm ground with mangroves and extensive areas of swampland to the north and east. At the north end of the bay, the village of Buena Ventura is adjacent to Playa Larga (Long Beach). 35 kilometers southeast of that, Playa Girón (Giron Beach) at the village of Girón, named after the notorious French pirate Gilberto Giron (c.1604).

Bay of Pigs (EP)

Bay of Pigs is an EP by Destroyer released on August 19th 2009, on 12" vinyl.

Track listing

Side A: "Bay of Pigs" - 13:37

Side B: "Ravers" - 7:50

Style

Bay of Pigs is "Destroyer’s first foray into the ambient disco market. " Ravers is described as "...[exploring] some of the more meditative realms of 20th Century classical composition " Ravers is another version of the Trouble in Dreams track "Rivers" with a much slower tempo.

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