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Other People

by Carey

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Other People 03:47
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In The Air 01:00
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Spiders 01:40
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On Being 01:30
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The Green 02:18
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The Phase 02:13
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All instruments by Dan Carey Bailey

Except cello on tracks 2 and 3 by Benjamin Shirley

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released September 8, 2017

Artwork and layout by Dan Carey Bailey

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"On his new tape for Athens, GA’s Null Zone, Other People, Carey — musician and composer Dan Carey Bailey — charts a new course through Americana with a wide-arc, yet on a humble scale. Bailey cut his chops as a powerhouse contributor in the South Atlanta experimental music community via groups like the eclectic Faun and a Pan Flute collective, whose agile jams in the vein of third-steam jazz allowed him to shine on bass. What makes his new collection Other People particularly impressive is that, aside from some cello work on two tracks from Benjamin Shirley, Bailey plays all instruments on the album himself, weaving them together into an emotive whole — appropriately enough given the name. Other People is a jazzy outing that’s freely haunting, quizzical, and rambunctious.

Among Bailey’s arsenal: clarinets, acoustic guitar, marimba, piano, and upright bass, to name only a few. Bailey’s preference for acoustic instrumentation gives the album a homey, dun-colored texture, and his expert arrangements are straight out of a Bill Frisell album. That omnipresent clarinet might as well be narrator in a chronicle spanning race and class, under unchanging skies. Among his many stylistic flirtations, he’s as equally adept with a sinewy, spare take on American folk-blues in the title track, as he is on a hammering, bubbly sort of minimalism, with free jazz antics dropping in to lighten the vibe lest we ever get too comfortable. Bailey’s tragicomic melodies and racing motifs (“On Being” is particularly gorgeous) evoke a faded world of yesteryear being slowly painted-over, but still visible from between the cracks. And the closer “Jonesboro Road” is just masterful." - Matthew Sweeney, Decoder Magazine

"'Other People' is the latest release from Carey. Dan Bailey has already established himself as a restrained composer in his own right. His previous release, IV (Crash Symbols), arrived in March 2014, introducing Bailey's elegant and ornate musical style. Other People goes even deeper into the loose and lucid transitions from airy modern classical composition to rustic tone and texture studies. "The Beauty in Failure" (featuring Benjamin Shirley on cello) and "The Phase" throw back to his earlier, Steve Reich-inspired symphonic permutation music. Elsewhere, Carey follows new paths: "Growth & Madness," "The Delusion of Doubles" and "The Green" lean toward the deep and highly structured post-rock of Chicago in the ’90s, namely Tortoise and Gastr Del Sol at their most meditative.

"I Don't Want The Doctor's Death" and "Nationalist Salad" are agile, but foreboding riffs on avant-garde jazz, while the title track, also featuring Shirley on cello, is pure primitive folk music. It’s another vivid reminder of the diversity within Bailey’s vast musical realm." - Bobby Power, Creative Loafing

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