Recruited by Patti Smith in 1995, Oliver Ray went from being a New York City street poet noise guitar player to a full-time member of her band for the next 10 years, honing his skills as a songwriter. Ray's solo debut 'Out Passed Nowhere' sees Ray emerge with what has been dubbed ‘anti-psych', music concerned with the inner ordeal of the entheogenic experience rather than the hallucinatory flash. ... more