The fifth solo album Even For A Shadow by singer-songwriter and multiinstrumentalist Ray Cooper is released twelve years after he ended his 23-year membership of the Oysterband. Ray Cooper's strengths as a songwriter and arranger are particularly evident on the new album.

The British singer-songwriter, who lives in Sweden, spent two years working on the album. The folk influences are still clearly audible, but there are far more echoes of other musical trends, such as Americana, than on the previous albums.

Although Ray played most of the instruments himself, including piano, guitars, cello, bass, harmonica, harmonium, mandolin, percussion and kantele, he enlisted the help of John Eriksson (Peter Björn and John) on drums, Gustav Andersson on piano, Ben Pailey on fiddle, Anders Peev on nyckelharpa and Hamburg church musicians on trumpets and trombones.

He also recorded vocal duets with three different singers: Emma Härdelin (Garmarna, Triakel), Sunniva Bondesson (Baskery) and Kathryn Roberts (Equation, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman Duo).

After the eight original compositions and three traditional songs rearranged by Ray, the album ends with the wellknown Jimmy Webb song "Adios".