here we've got the overdrives and the chorus (in flanger mode) on, with a tremolo, delay and reverb in my Lexicon…

one of the cables from the looper had pulled out the back of the sound card, so I had to 'restereoize' the mono looper track, and did it with the TwoNotes WOS III plugin (the resulting signal is mixed at about 25% here)

Wonderful Satriani-esque melody. Love it.

Ah... Perfect for unwinding after a long studio day. You have the most immaculately beautiful groove and your tone just keeps evolving into something more beautiful every day. :)

Love the flange-feedback and echo before the lead comes back in

Steve paints beautiful sonic pictures that tell stories without words!

Petrol Blue

So, I was messing around with this progression yesterday, and looped the chords, some ambient goo and a solo. Was listening to it while reading the news about the UK election stuff that's going on, and it felt like the same sonic story as Grace And Gratitude 10 years ago. An exploration of the sadness around people adopting a politic of fear and distrust, peddled by a party of opportunists and targeted at the most vulnerable. 

The initial thought to playing yesterday was to explore a few new sound possibilities combining the Dunlop Super Bright strings that I've just put on my 6 string, and my MXR, Darkglass and Markbass pedals (see pic). So I'll tag the audio with what's happening there. 

This is probably the most despondent gear demo you'll ever hear ;) 

Lament

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.

Lament

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