RA and Cement Shoes Records to Release "Raw" on October 24, 2006

Press release
Source: Randex Communications

Fusing soaring vocals, seven-string guitars and Eastern modalities into pure rock power, RA has summoned all of its RAW energy to deliver its Cement Shoes Records debut with its first live album.

And it’s not just the live tracks that are making the impact. “Don’t Turn Away,” RA’s impassioned new single and the lone studio track on RAW, debuted last week as the No. 1 Most Added Track at Active Rock radio!

RAW, due October 24, 2006, on the new FONTANA/Universal distributed label, captures an incendiary live performance recorded earlier this year at the Machine Shop in Flint, MI, where frontman/lead vocalist/founder Sahaj Ticotin says “the audiences are always so exciting and so crazy; I knew we were going to have a good show at that club because the audiences there always draw it out of me.” Mixed by the legendary Andy Johns (Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Ozzy Osbourne), RAW brings together the ambitiously infectious, commercially challenging sound that has cast Ra as a groundbreaking act over two critically acclaimed studio albums, while forecasting some of what’s in store when Black Sun, the band’s highly anticipated next studio effort, is released by Cement Shoes in Spring 2007.

Influenced as much by Metallica and Soundgarden as Peter Gabriel and the Police, RA has been hailed by the likes of Guitar One, Guitar World, Metal Edge and Hit Parader for its masterful contrast of intricately sensitive aggression and melody. Not only does RAW include RA’s early radio hit, “Fallen Angels" and popular remake of The Police’s “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic,” but the album also serves as an exciting introduction to fan favorites like the hypnotic “Violator,” the soulful “I Lost Everything Today” and the driving yet contemplative “Sky.”

Indeed, RA is a force that must be experienced live, whether on RAW or on the fall “Congress of Corruption Tour,” launching today with Cement Shoes label mates Ill Nino and Godhead. All the latest tour information is at www.thecongressofcorruptiontour.com.

As RA marks its 10th anniversary this year, the band (also lead guitarist Ben Carroll, bassist P.J. Farley and drummer Andy Ryan) enters its second decade poised to astound and ascend with its remarkable sonic – and spiritual - balance.

Cement Shoes Records, formed in 2006 by industry veterans Daniel E. Catullo III (President/Founder of Music DVD company Coming Home Studios), Peter Koepke (former President/Partner of legendary London Records), and Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins, seeks to re-establish true artist relationships and development neglected in recent years by major labels. An independent label distributed by FONTANA/Universal, Cement Shoes Records believes the artist comes first and needs to be properly developed through relentless touring and focused marketing efforts to “The Street,” where the true music fans are.

The full track listing for RAW is as follows:

1. Fallen Angels
2. Rectifier
3. Only
4. Violator
5. Superman
6. I Lost Everything Today
7. Tell Me
8. Sky
9. The Only One
10. Do You Call My Name
11. Skorn
12. Don’t Turn Away (studio version)

For more information, please visit:

RA
Cement Shoes Records
Randex Communications