Charlie Ringas

The process never ends for Charlie. Ending is just another way of beginning. Or he might, equally, be writing a commissioned fantasy suite for church organ, depending on what point in his career you want to look at. He can go from Balkan rhythms to Bebop via Asian inspired lines, all somehow within the same gesture. And all the while sidestepping the mainstream completely. He seems intent on erasing the idea of cliche, even when using the most familiar phrase. “I’ve always played with this way of contrasting what is readily known and immediate, with that which seems other worldly and distant”, says Charlie. He has a doggedly unique vision, both musical and otherwise. Not to be overly grandiose, but there are some artists who, if they weren’t doing their thing, their thing would simply be missing from human experience, because no one else would ever do it quite that way. Charlie Ringas is like that.