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Out Passed Nowhere is the debut solo album from Oliver Ray. Unfurling like a long stretch of road leading out past the edge of town, the album takes the listener to uncharted destinations beyond the edges of the map.
Centered around Ray’s songwriting, the album finds him backed by a kaleidoscopic array of guest performers from the Bay Area, Tucson, and the NYC music communities. Ray’s transcendent tunes are brought to life in stunning wide screen detail by members of Giant Sand, Sugar Candy Mountain, The Myrrors, Xixa, China, the legendary Howe Gelb, and a special appearance from the high priestess and poet laureate of punk herself.
Working in collaboration with producer David Glasebrook, the two created a unique sonic landscape for each song; throwing genre conventions out the window, they focused on capturing distinctive, emotionally resonant sounds. Each song has a distinctive flavor, but like the pieces to a puzzle they add up to more than the sum of their parts. The guitar explorations of ‘Ol Coyote’ sit side by side with the dusty folk of ‘Setting Sun’, the psychedelic swirl of ‘Best Game In Town’, the darkly orchestral ‘Tower and the Star’, and the ambient tone poem that is ‘Edge City’. The resulting album is a songwriting tour de force set amidst a swirling sonic landscape that recalls Bob Dylan or Cass McCombs as much as Brian Eno and Mark Hollis.
Out Passed Nowhere is a captivating statement from an artist in his prime. Although it may be his solo debut, Ray has been playing music and writing songs for decades, and this album stands as testament to all those miles of road traveled; all those hours spent with pen to paper; all those songs sung and yet to be sung.
credits
released June 7, 2019
Produced by David Glasebrook and Oliver Ray
Recorded at Wyldwood—Berkeley, CA; Waterworks—Tucson, AZ; Dust and Stone—Tucson, AZ; and various home studios in AZ, CA, and NY
Mixed by David Glasebrook, except ‘Ol Coyote’, ‘Best Game in Town’, and ‘Tower and the Star’ mixed by Craig Schumacher at Wavelab—Tucson, AZ
Recorded by David Glasebrook, Jim Waters, Mike Walti, Gabriel Sullivan, and Oliver Ray
Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering—Boston, MA
Lacquers cut by John Golden at Golden Mastering—Ventura, CA
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
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Dirtbag Transformation: "What is this?" was my first reaction. But what an amazing song. It reminds me a bit of the Pixies in how it pulls together dissonance and then resolves. malfunction54
Big, clanging psych-rock from this Arizona outfit fuses monk-like vocals with slow-winding guitars for songs that feel like strange hymns. Bandcamp New & Notable May 2, 2016
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"Everything is simple 'til it's not
Learned to love the ropes when you were caught
See they could be braided a different way
And sinking into nothing, you learn to stay" Rüdiger Jay