Ted Laderas, who goes by OO-Ray when he’s piping his cello through layers of effects and, in turn, breathing out reams of lovely music that’s half classical and half shoegazer, has a new EP out soon, a half-hour cassette titled *Vespers*. The album’s name, taken from the early evening prayer, is certainly appropriate, as his music often has the aura of a cathedral, in both its sense of space and its contemplative presence. This two-minute sample of *Vespers* does not disappoint, with deep echoing of subsumed sawing, the effect as much like an organ as like a chorus.
*Vespers* comes out December 4 at [lifelikefamily.bandcamp.com](https://lifelikefamily.bandcamp.com/). Track originally posted at [soundcloud.com/ooray](https://soundcloud.com/ooray/vespers-teaser). More from Laderas, who is based in Portland, Oregon, at [twitter.com/ooray](https://twitter.com/ooray) and [15people.net](http://15people.net/).