Raymond Raposa has been giving us itinerant folk songs as Castanets since the heyday of freak-folk, but he’s survived and evolved. “Out For The West,” the lead single from Castanets ...

Which castanets are best? The best castanets may vary from person to person, depending on each individual’s needs, but it’s not hard to miss a nice pair of castanets when you see them. While ...

Which castanets are best? The best castanets may vary from person to person, depending on each individual’s needs, but it’s not hard to miss a nice pair of castanets when you see them. While ...

Ray Raposa, the folk artist best known for his music as Castanets, has died at age 41. Via Pitchfork, the news came via Sufjan Stevens ‘ Asthmatic Kitty label, who released much of Raposa’s ...

SEE IT: Castanets plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., with Alameda and Old Light, on Thursday, Sept. 4. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

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 whose average t ...

Dive into the realm of traditional craftsmanship, where a single artisan breathes life into castanets. Witness the meticulous process as each piece is carefully shaped and perfected by hand. This ...

Castanets (a late addition to flamenco tradition) would only have been an obstruction. In her one-act suite “Colores,” she danced to instruments from India: the tabla (treble drum) and sarangi ...

A couple of weeks ago I ran into Raymond Raposa, a.k.a. Castanets, at Spuyten Duyvil, a beer and wine bar in Brooklyn. Always on the lookout for musicians with day jobs, I asked him a bit about ...

According to the Castanets’ biography, frontman Raymond Raposa tested out of high school at age 15, spending the next few years traveling via Greyhound bus. The songs on First Light’s Freeze ...