https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/geraldbailey/snakia-feat-david-agee?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=Email+&utm_source=SendGrid Where is Snakia? A raw dance influenced, anti-capitalist jazz recording featuring some sounds influenced by the late great Steve Albini. Featuring David Agee on drums. Give this a listen an drop it into a summer playlist if you like.
The song features singer-songwriter Sara Kay, Mikel Avery on drums and Gerald Flugabone. Presave here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/geraldbailey/second-hand-feat-sara-kay?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=Email+&utm_source=SendGrid
Thanks to Endless Crate for including Ensorcell in their Heavy Rotation column. "Chicago multi-instrumental virtuoso Gerald Bailey is redefining jazz’s sonic sphere, ingeniously reassembling familiar building blocks into something that can only be described as bedroom jazz. That’s jazz in its most intimate, most unfiltered form. With his latest musical offering, Bailey seamlessly shapes layers of resonant... Continue Reading →
Seek shelter and pre-save an Intermodal Home. A new song is coming on Friday December 1st on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music and more! Creating an oblique polyrhythmic texture, the echos make it sound as if it the horns were recorded in a metal house. The single aims to further awareness of climate change. https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/geraldbailey/intermodal-home-2?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=Email+&utm_source=SendGrid
Presave Link to the latest single "Ghost Mall" Ghost Mall is an oblique song intended to be a commentary on overpopulation, consumerism and overproduction.
SONG LINK https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/geraldbailey/raised-by-conservatives-feat-kyle-hodges?utm_source=SendGrid&utm_medium=Email+&utm_campaign=website Raised by Conservatives is the first new mix from his debut record Migration Climate, released on Potions Music New York. The song is a collaboration with Kyle Hodges featuring Trumpet, Synth and chopped up drums. Kyle named this one in response to the original title "Raised by Frogs".
"Gerald Bailey’s 𝘔𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 is a jazz album, but not in the traditional sense. Centered around dusty drums, recycled instruments and brassy horns, it’s rooted in a grimy kind of jazz that creates a bluesy, careworn sound. Highly recommended." Album Link
Rain Party is a follow up single to the sold out vinyl LP, Migration Climate. Thumb piano lines create polyrhythmic counterpoint that sounds like falling rain. The heavy drums are a nod to rainmaking rituals from Africa and North America. Link to Stream Pre-Save
Whoa! Potions Music New York sold out of the vinyl version of Migration Climate in three hours. Thank you for your support! If you'd like to take a listen to a couple songs from the record, they are available on all platforms. The complete album will be released for streaming on Tuesday April 11.
Conceptually following themes of migration and social change, this single was named "Call to Act". Be sure to check out the Migration Climate on Potions Music New York. https://youtu.be/TpvAtJ2QG1U
Gerald Bailey | Trumpet & Music Production 