Asthmatic Kitty, the label founded by Sufjan Stevens, has been quietly assembling a group of artists who produce soft experimental music with intense, often spiritual, lyrical concerns. Castanets — ...

Ray Raposa, front man and essentially the only constant member of Castanets, has always been a wanderer. He’s spent much of his life on buses, in rest stops, and crossing interstates in the backseats ...

After his Castanets project vanished off the map in 2009, Raymond Raposa brings the experimental folk project back for another go-round. Decimation Blues is a fragmented album that trends toward the ...

For City of Refuge, Castanets' Raymond Raposa decamped, alone, to a tiny desert outpost in Nevada, away from Brooklyn, away from social interaction. The resulting album is appropriately barren and ...