Very nice. As a bassist your work intrigues me, though I have yet to figure out how you do what you do. It has opened my ears to the possibilities. I am glad that I found your music.

First 10 - 20 seconds is a ringtone or alarm sound... Market it NOW!

Petrol Blue

So I just got a Keith McMillen Quneo - it's a MIDI controller/touch surface that can be assigned to loads of things. I'm most interested in using it as an instrument, playing percussion and synth parts on it. 

At the moment, I'm using Ableton Live as a sound engine, and then running the audio into my normal bass+looping set up. So no pre-programmed or presampled loops, just a load of experiments in live playing and my usual exploration of wobbly time. 

I've always found ambiguous time to be more interesting than things that are metric, but it's really interesting what happens when you do that with drum sounds, where your ears really expect them to be closer to in time (I know the reactions I've had from some students when first playing them D'Angelo tracks or J Dilla productions...) - so I'm seeing how far I can push this... After repeated listening to this, I hear the slightly out-of-tune-ness of the very first bass note as more 'out' that the rhythm ;) 

Here's the first publicly-listenable experiment from that set... Enjoy!

Nearly Human (bass + Quneo live looping experiment)

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

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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.

Nearly Human (bass + Quneo live looping experiment)

solobasssteve

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