Ray Lynch Deep In Your Mind: A Tribute
Without a whisper, composer and electronic artist Ray Lynch left the planet, passing on December 22, 2025 reportedly after a fall. The only notice of it at this writing has been on his Facebook page on February 3 and Instagram page on February 5. Today, we remember Ray Lynch with tracks from across his four instrumental albums.
Ray Lynch arrived as New Age music was cresting, releasing his third and most popular album, Deep Breakfast, in 1984. It ultimately went platinum and became one of the biggest New Age records of all time.
I suspect most listeners don’t know Ray Lynch’s background. Born July 3, 1943, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Lynch had academic studies and private training in composition and guitar. While living in Maine, he fell under the spell of Dafree John, also known as Avatar Adi Da Samraj. He was kind of a cult figure who Lynch credited with changing the course of his life in the mid-1970s.
Many of Lynch’s titles over subsequent years, like “Falling in the Garden,” “The Oh of Pleasure” and “Tiny Geometries” are taken from the writings of Dafree John. And in fact, his first album, Truth is the Only Profound, was a spoken word release with readings of AdiDa’s writings backed by Lynch’s neo-classical music. We won’t hear that today. But what we will hear are tracks from his four instrumental releases. Lynch started out as a conventional acoustic music composer but he got a synthesizer around 1980 and everything changed. He loved the sounds and he loved the arpeggiator which you can hear on many of his tracks. However, he didn’t completely jettison his neo-classical aspirations as you’ll hear.
Read John Diliberto’s Remembrance of Ray Lynch.
Wis i would have met you. I listened to your music since I was a little boy