Ryan Scott’s musical life began more than 30 years ago, with the discovery of his mother’s forgotten nylon string guitar. Just a few years later, he was electrified… leading a teenage blues band at a bar on Cannery Row. Soon after, it was the jazz bug that led him to New York City to get schooled in the home of the modern jazz tradition. After years of hustling in every which stylistic direction to eventually become an in-demand sideman and studio player, Ryan finally emerged as his full and true self in 2019, with the release of his first one-man-band LP, ‘A Freak Grows in Brooklyn’. Recorded in a warehouse rehearsal space and an apartment closet, ‘A Freak Grows in Brooklyn’ is a culmination of years of experiences and sonic research, an experiment to see what’s possible with one human, a bunch of instruments, and a cassette recorder. Playing all the instruments himself, overdubbing on a Tascam 488 multitrack, Ryan managed to conjure a lo-fi masterpiece of dry, raw simplicity. 2022 brought the release of ‘cookies’, a vocal and keyboard heavy basement experiment from the depths of true solitude. Still holding to a set of analog rules, and created by one man and all real instruments(the synths are analog), captured onto some kind of tape. Quickly thereafter, in August 2023, Ryan released ‘Analog Vacation’, an epic 16 song double LP covering a wide swath of stylistic territory, but held together by the one funky man doing all the stuff. Check it out.