"Do It" groovy double bass solo track 1 from my solo bass album "Me, My Bass and I". Funky syncopated groove on German Juzek double bass with Spirocore strings.

If you’d like to support me, please consider buying a CD or download of my solo bass album “Me, My Bass and I”: www.craigakin.bandcamp.com

Lots more bass related goodies: www.craigakin.com

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Craig Akin - Upright & Electric Bass Player
All Styles, Studio, Tour, Shows, Film 
Recording from home
Upright bass rentals and sales
Bass Buggie Dealer

Tune sponsored by Richard LeVan
Recorded by Craig at his home
Mixed by Joel Arnow, JA Studios NY
Mastered by Kevorkian Mastering, Brooklyn NY

Me, My Bass and I

Do It

Amanda Gorman really inspired me with her poem for the Biden inauguration in 2021. The is the recording of Track 2 "Poet Gorman" upright bass solo from album Me, My Bass and I. German Juzek upright bass with Spirocore strings.

If you’d like to support me, please consider buying a CD or download of my solo bass album “Me, My Bass and I”: www.craigakin.bandcamp.com

Lots more bass related goodies: www.craigakin.com

Subscribe to my YT channel: youtube.com/CraigAkinonbass

Follow me on Insta: instagram.com/craigakinonbass

Find me on FB: facebook.com/Akinthebassist

Craig Akin - Upright & Electric Bass Player
All Styles, Studio, Tour, Shows, Film 
Recording from home
Upright bass rentals and sales
Bass Buggie Dealer

Tune sponsored by Maggie Indellicate
Recorded by Craig at his home
Mixed by Joel Arnow, JA Studios NY
Mastered by Kevorkian Mastering, Brooklyn NY

#expressiveJazzSolo #UnaccompaniedUprightBass #DoubleBassSolo

Poet Gorman

Recorded around the January 6, 2021 capitol riot. Track 6 "Capitol Riot" upright bass solo from my double bass album "Me, My Bass and I". 
Afro Cuban beat on German Juzek upright bass with Spirocore strings.

If you’d like to support me, please consider buying a CD or download of my solo bass album “Me, My Bass and I”: www.craigakin.bandcamp.com

Subscribe to my YT channel: youtube.com/CraigAkinonbass

Lots more bass related goodies: www.craigakin.com

Follow me on Insta: instagram.com/craigakinonbass

Find me on FB: facebook.com/Akinthebassist

Craig Akin - Upright & Electric Bass Player
All Styles, Studio, Tour, Shows, Film 
Recording from home
Upright bass rentals and sales
Bass Buggie Dealer

Tune sponsored by David & Margret Hoonsbeen
Recorded by Craig at his home
Mixed by Joel Arnow, JA Studios NY
Mastered by Kevorkian Mastering, Brooklyn NY

#UprightBass #pizzicato #RecordingBass #AfroCubanBass

Capitol Riot

unexpectorant

devil's walking stick

Voici ma nouvelle composition rayonnante : Soleil. 🌞
Bonne Écoute!

Syma- Soleil

this was actually a brief improvised duet with a generative synth patch; i decided i didn't care for the synth, but the bass part was okay;
put a mark in the human column, i guess

5.10.23

just my half of the argument

self examination

Yuji Kawamoto
Solo Bass performance
You Must Believe In Spring (comp. Michel Legrand)

6.14.2023
Rec&Mix Yuji Kawamoto

SoloBass YouMustBeliveinSpring

In The Wilderness - Genesis (Solo Bass Cover)

In 1972, the prolific and iconic writer, Anaïs Nin, was the guest speaker at Hampshire College's 2nd commencement ceremony.

Anais Nin "The Inner Journey"

2024M3秋にて頒布予定のアルバム「勿忘草」収録予定曲のラフです。

勿忘草 demo

夕昏れ demo

I wrote and recorded this for my 11 (at the time) year old daughter as she was stuck in her room with COVID-19.  She was feeling depressed and I wanted to cheer her up.  It was complete in about two hours then it got lost in a hard drive crash.  I recently found a back up on another disk.

We're Gonna (get through this dark night and be happy in the morning)

We're Gonna (get Through This Dark Night And Be Happy In The Morning)

the dregs

reniversionary

Une Âme musicale née sur la lune  🌙
Ensuite, elle est venue sur la terre pour connaitre le soleil🌞
Mon compte instagram est : symalou.1
🖤🤍

As a classically-trained bassist, Ian Falcon uses modern, traditional, and electronic instruments to combine post-rock and ambient textures with the occasional modal jazz influences.

Writing, mixing, mastering, sharing.  I follow my muse into various musical corners.

Craig Akin is an upright and electric bass player in Nashville.  He has played and recorded with countless musicians of many different styles.  From jazz to pop, and blues to rock, Craig is comfortable and creative, and can deliver the goods like any veteran on his instrument. He has performed well over 5,000 gigs and is featured on 100+ albums.

[the impossibility of starting over]
[the fantasy of "getting it right this time"]
[loss = possibility]

all tracks were living performances, usually with acoustic bass and electronics, sometimes guitar, synthesizers, voice, piano, mixers, fx, field recordings; single takes, no overdubs

for collaborations, commissions, booking, compliments, complaints, etc. etc.  dm or email asdbmusic@gmail.com

New tracks tagged #solobass