Love how a conversation about music becomes music

Petrol Blue

Recorded at Leeds Beckett Uni, during a symposium on music education - Not having played with Ray before, I really didn't want to miss out on the chance to play together a little... so we volunteered to be the lunch time entertainment. It was fascinating to play in a context where we'd just been talking about music for hours, describing it, discussing it, and listening to a few recorded examples, but we were there just playing for the joy of it. We weren't really 'demonstrating' anything, though we did a little bit of a deconstruct afterwards, but it was just joyful exploratory music making as an oasis in the middle of the brain-food. 

Such fun! Really looking forward to playing with Ray again soon... this one takes a few sharp turns, hence the title :) 

Steve Lawson and Ray Russell - a Drastic Change In The Weather

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.

Steve Lawson and Ray Russell - a Drastic Change In The Weather

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