Listen to Carey’s ‘Parallel Music’ Movement 1
A 13-minute opus from the mind of Faun and A Pan Flute bass player Danny Bailey.
Photo credit: Courtesy Mission Trips
Today, Carey unveils “Parallel Music” Movement 1, a 13-minute opus from the mind of Faun and A Pan Flute bass player Danny Bailey. The song is still a work progress, although this is the final structure. According to Bailey some harmonies will be moved around, and string parts will be added over time. Until then, feast your ears on this latest offering to arrive bearing the mark of homegrown experimental label, Mission Trips. It’s a monster, driven by a swirl of changing parts, tone clusters, and staccato arrangements — a far cry from the homemade recordings that Bailey has turned out with Carey so far.
As reported yesterday:
... sometimes studying the process of how a piece of music comes together is just as important as the finished product. Until now, the handful of recordings that Bailey has released as Carey have been much smaller in stature; small ideas that could be something to elaborate upon later. And the instrumentation, generally speaking, has been too inconsistent to be recreated live. But despite “Parallel Music’s” grandiose design, he has every intention of taking this piece to the stage.
For the recording, Bailey plays all of the instruments: piano, upright bass, vibraphone, marimba, gong, clarinet, alto clarinet. He intends to continue working on the piece, while at the same time sketching out the next two movements. Then he’ll write string parts; cello, violin, viola, etc. The live band will be assembled later. “Over the last six months these have taken form as a potential orchestral composition,” Bailey says. “Chris Child’s Orchestra was definitely an inspiration. It proved to me that it’s not impossible to put together something like this. Gage Gilmore’s Five in Three Parts was a huge inspiration, too. It is, in a way, his own Parallel Music. We were each developing these themes and patterns around the same time.”
And if you missed it, be sure to check out the song’s teaser trailer — tune in and zone out to those fantastic visuals that come courtesy of Mission Trips mastermind Christopher White.