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| Double bassist/singer-songwriter Nat Baldwin’s forthcoming album People Changes is much like the stark Maine setting which it was created. Of course, his fourth full-length shows welcome markings of his experimental bent from years as the Dirty Projectors bassist and former disciple of free jazz legend Anthony Braxton, but the serene isolation of 17 million acres of New England forest land make this cabin-born set intimate and sincere. The album follows A Split EP with Extra Life (2008, Shatter Your Leaves) on which earlier versions of “Weights” and “Lifted” appear, Most Valuable Player (2008), Enter the Winter (2006) and Lights Out EP (2005) on Broken Sparrow Records, and his experimental free jazz debut Solo Contrabass (2003, Peacock Recordings). In addition to Dirty Projectors, Nat Baldwin has performed on Vampire Weekend’s Contra and Department of Eagles' In Ear Park. He will tour behind the album’s release this spring. |
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| People Changes |
 Weights |
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| EVENTS |
| Feb 15 Purchase, NY • Whitson's Hall in the SUN |
| Feb 16 Ithaca, NY • Culture Shock |
| Feb 17 Buffalo, NY • The Vault |
| Feb 18 Toronto, ON • The Great Hall |
| Feb 19 Ottawa, Ontario • Raw Sugar |
| Feb 20 Montreal, Quebec • Casa Del Popolo |
| Feb 21 Burlington, VT • Burlington City Arts Center |
| Feb 24 Portland, ME • Space |
| Mar 22 Kittery, ME • BUOY |
| Mar 23 Hudson, NY • The Spotty Dog Books & Ale |
| Mar 24 Brooklyn, NY • Union Pool |
| Mar 25 Philadelphia, PA • First Unitarian Chapel |
| Mar 27 Cincinnati, OH • The Ice Cream Factory |
| Mar 28 Bloomington, IN • The Bishop w/ Qur'an Qur'an |
| Mar 29 North Manchester, IN • The Firehouse |
| Mar 30 Chicago, IL • The Hideout |
| Mar 31 Gambler, OH • The Horn Gallery |
| Apr 1 Youngstown, PA • Cedar's Lounge |
| Apr 3 Baltimore, MD • Metro Gallery |
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| SELECTED PRESS |
"Nat Baldwin’s upright bass is Joanna Newsom’s harp, Andrew Bird’s violin - a partner so indispensable, it’s a personal trait. Over a gorgeous bull-fiddle hum, he belts out these melismatic flourishes... This delivery is terrifically earnest, terrifyingly intimate, and terribly special."
– The Boston Phoenix |
"His musical imagination is expansive, while his lack of pretense is admirable"
– Pitchfork |
“Nat Baldwin has plenty of experience transforming experimental, progressive musical ideas into sweet sounding pop music. Baldwin applies the same concept to his solo work as well.”
– WNYC |
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