Live meditative music from and for the grandfather.

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Devotion

Cloud Skating

Nate is an Oberlin Conservatory trained double bassist, sound healer, and multi-instrumentalist who has performed professionally on all seven continents at clubs, festivals, cruise ships, concert halls, and yoga studios.   Creator of the Double Bass Sound Bath, Nate channels the healing vibration of the whale song to create a transformative environment for his listeners. 
 
Leading the Bay Area improvisors collective, Thieves of the Sun, Nate creates musical experiences custom tailored to the sonic environment he finds himself in.  His improvisations can be described as a mix of Burning Man Psychedelic Jam Bands, Ecstatic Dance, Shamanic Sound Healing, and Ethno-World Tribal Fusion.  As a soloist or as a group,  their sound journeys are perfect for tea house background music, yoga classes, or any other environment requiring music that reflects the energy of it's audience.  In addition to the bass, Nate performs on a mix of classical, world, and electronic musical instruments including the hang drum, hand sonic, djembe, didgeridoo, hardwood drum, kalimba, sound bowl, guitar, native american flute, and ableton push. 
 
As a professional bassist, he has shared stages with diverse acts from visionary artist Android Jones (The Grateful Dead) to The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.  Some of his most notable collaborations have been with Clem Curtis (The Foundations "Build Me Up Buttercup"), Zane Carney (John Mayer, Avril Lavigne), Journey South (UK X-Factor), and Lorna Luft (daughter of Judy Garland).

Prior to graduate school, Nate was a band leader and musician in the HALCats, a show band aboard the Holland America Line cruise ships, traveling to over 70 countries.  As a bassist, Nate has performed professionally on (or near) seven continents in rock clubs, private parties, cruise ships, concert halls, and places of worship.  Nate has shared the stage with various rock, pop, funk, blues, R&B, jazz and classical ensembles, notably with soul singer, Clem Curtis of The Foundations ("Build Me Up, Buttercup"), Broadway star, Lorna Luft (daughter of Judy Garland), and pop rock duo, Journey South (UK X-Factor).  

Nate attended the Oberlin College Conservatory, studying with Peter Dominguez and Tom Sperl.  Described by the Oberlin Review as having “high-quality musicianship” and creating “chest vibrating bass-lines,” Nate was featured in Oberlin’s Wind and critically acclaimed Contemporary Music Ensembles on electric bass. He also taught credited electric bass lessons for the Conservatory.

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