The Humors, by Ryan Dugre

The Humors

by Ryan Dugre

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2.	Mateo Alone 04:33	buy track
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5.	Smoke From Above 03:54	buy track
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7.	High Cloud 04:35	buy track
8.	Tonight 02:59	buy track
9.	The Humors 02:18	buy track
10.	In Tall Grass 04:50	buy track

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The Humors is the second full-length album from Ryan Dugré, a NYC-based freelance guitarist. The instrumental pieces on The Humors are meant to create mood and space. Drawing influence from film music, sparse scores such as Neil Young's music for Dead Man, as well as the more melancholic pieces found on Marc Ribot's Silent Movies, Ryan's music is graceful and meditative.

Dugré composed the majority of the record in 2017, between tours with bands including Rubblebucket, Landlady, and Eleanor Friedberger. “After my first record, Gardens, I knew I wanted the follow-up to have a fuller, more textured sound. I experimented with engineer Sam Owens with different instrumentation, layering, and arranging in a way I hadn’t done before,” he says.

On The Humors, Dugré moves between several guitars and plays drums and synths. The record also features performances from additional musicians. Ian Mclellan Davis wrote string trio arrangements for three of the songs. Eric Lane added synths to “Mateo Alone” and “High Cloud.” Ian Chang and Jeremy Gustin added drums to “High Cloud” and “In Tall Grass,” respectively.

“I wrote everything on the guitar,” Dugré says. “A lot of the songs are in alternate tunings that I kind of stumbled into. This helped me connect what I was hearing in my head to my hands in a different way than I was used to. Certainly not a new technique, but it helped me remove myself from standard movements on the guitar.”

The name of the record comes from the ancient medical concept of humorism — the theory that one’s health and emotional well-being is determined by the balance of the body’s four fluids, or humors. “I had been thinking a lot about this idea of balance in a song, balance of an album. Staying aware of what types of sounds happen when, and how even small tweaks affect the listening experience. Sometimes, taking a little sweet away and adding more sharp was the move, and other times it was the opposite.”

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released March 8, 2019

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Ryan Dugre New York, New York

New York based multi-instrumentalist and composer from Holyoke, MA.

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Look See

Feb 2022
Three Rivers

Feb 2021
The Humors

Mar 2019
Gardens

Apr 2016
Parade

Dec 2015

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