Deep Breakfast

Deep Breakfast
Studio album by
Ray Lynch
ReleasedDecember 12, 1984
RecordedSeptember–October 1984
StudioRay Lynch's home studio[1]
GenreNew-age
Space music[2]
Length40:20
LabelRay Lynch Productions
Music West (1986 reissue)[3]
Windham Hill Records (1992 reissue)[4]
ProducerRay Lynch
Ray Lynch chronology
The Sky of Mind
(1983) 		Deep Breakfast
(1984) 		No Blue Thing
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[6]

Deep Breakfast is Ray Lynch's third studio album, released on December 12, 1984. Upon its initial release, the artist sold over 72,000 albums out of his small apartment in San Rafael, California.[7] After signing with Music West Records, the album was released widely in March 1986.[8] Upon its re-release, the album was universally praised for its mesh of electronic and classical sounds, with several calling it an evolution to the respective genres. Eventually, in 1989, the album peaked at #2 on Billboard's "Top New Age Albums" chart, behind David Lanz's album Cristofori's Dream.[9] The album was eventually certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1994.[10]

  1. ^ Widders-Ellis, Andy (December 1989). "Ray Lynch: Exploring the Structure of Music". Keyboard. 15 (12): 29. Lynch records and mixes his albums in his home studio.
  2. ^ Patti Jean Birosik, The New Age Music Guide: Profiles and Recordings of 500 Top New Age Musicians, p113, 1989, Collier MacMillan, ISBN 0-02-041640-7, "Deep Breakfast...one of the best-selling New Age Space music albums ever"
  3. ^ "Deep Breakfast (1986)". Discogs. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hill was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Ruhlmann, William. "Deep Breakfast Review". AllMusic. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  6. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Muze. p. 384. ISBN 0195313739.
  7. ^ Mayfield, Geoff (October 25, 1986). "Indies". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. N-4, N-20. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  8. ^ McCormick, Moira (December 19, 1987). "Mainstream New Age Promo A Hit" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 99, no. 51. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
  9. ^ "New Age Music: Top New Age Albums Chart". Billboard. January 28, 1989. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rank was invoked but never defined (see the help page).