Petrol Blue

Recorded in April 2005, during a period when I was exploring the possibilities for collaborative improvised, looping-based music. Cleveland Watkiss and I got together a few times over a period of a few months and just improvised, seeing how our musical worlds came together. Along with some parallel experimentations that I was recording with BJ Cole, and my prior work with Theo Travis and Jez Carr, this is what formulated the idea for the Recycle Collective - a monthly improvised music night in London that ran from late 2005 til early 2007, and that I'm looking to resurrect in Birmingham soon. Keep an eye on twitter.com/RecycleCllctv for more :) 

Gregorian (Steve Lawson and Cleveland Watkiss)

An ambient improvisation on solo fretless bass (5-string), using three Source Audio Soundblox2 pedals: Manta bass filter, Multiwave bass distortion, and Dimension reverb. Lightly edited in Reaper.

Orion

A short improvisation on a Sigma (5-string EADGC fretted) acoustic bass, plus various effects. I was experimenting with adding a loop while editing in Reaper (by taking a short section of the solo and looping it).

Falling

A rough cut from the New Standard project with Steve Lawson

The New Standard

Don't Want to Know

All this Time is from the compelling new album by veteran songwriter Lobelia Lawson takes a fresh look at heartbreak; exploring themes of hope, renewal and confidence. Love Or Something Like It, produced by Juno award winning producer Rob Szabo, is modern, fragile and at times intense, with the witty tongue-in-cheek songwriting that Lobelia is known for. Releasing on Valentines Day as an album for the romantically disenfranchised.
Pre-order now at:
www.lobelia.bandcamp.com

All This Time

Producer: DA
https://soundcloud.com/010da

Corbyn Riddim (Prod. DA)

Written by me and produced by James Delin

Overlay

Lullaby for Eniola - Kit Downes & Ruth Goller
remotely recorded, May 2020

Robert Stillman - saxophone
Aaron Parks - piano, keyboards
Adam Robinson - viola
Ruth Goller - bass
Seb Rochford - drums

edited and mix by Kit Downes, master by Alex Bonney

Lullaby for Eniola (feat. Aaron Parks, Robert Stillman)

Solo bassist (solobasssteve on most of the internets), improvisor, looper, social media experimentalist, lecturer, writer of blogthings. I use Soundcloud less these days, and am uploading new stuff for my Bandcamp subscribers. Check that out :) 

This music is brought to you by the words bass, looping, live, cinematic, ambient, jazz, improvised, electronica.

Gregorian (Steve Lawson and Cleveland Watkiss)

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