i have had a great number of unrelated influences. they would include miles davis, john coltrane, willie dixon, jack bruce,henryk gorcecki, morton feldman, bach, steve roden, ernest hemingway, herman hesse, kurosawa, carl dreyer, fellini; any work that is spare and deals truthfully with the issue of being human. this list could and should be increased by several hundred artists but this is a general idea of what has shaped my work.
i have always seen the electric bass as an instrument of great beauty with an unlimited ability to present thematic material. the bass players who have inspired me to pursue this would have to include paul chambers, willie dixon, jack bruce, jerry jemmot, jimmy garrison, joe osborne, charles mingus, it's endless.
i am a electric bass player and composer. i work mainly with the bass as a solo instrument. i have a new release for january 2007 coming out on new albion records. go to www.newalbion.com/NA133 to check it out. for more info and to purchase my earlier cds, go to www.thebigtreemusic.com.
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that my new album Afrikan Machinery is out now on Tzadik Records. Check out some of the tracks on my profile! You can buy the CD here, here, or here. It's also available on iTunes.
Best Wishes, Lukas Ligeti
Knowing that you like our music I thought I'd let you know that we have uploaded 4 new songs in our player, feel free to come listen... They are from our second CD which is now released and should be available in fine record stores close to you
“White Night” is a rediscovered early masterpiece of Ambient and Drone music. Back in 1974, one year before Brian Eno’s first landmark in Ambient-music, some young musician from New York wrote down a fragment of beauty’s hidden story with the minimal vocabulary of sine waves on the young black skin of a Moog synthesizer.
In 2006 Ex Ovo released “I, Mute Hummings” a collection of Drone pieces which includes an eight-minute edit of “White Night” remixed by Richard Lainhart himself. The track is constantly singled out in reviews with the Wire calling it “gorgeous” and creates demand for the full version to be released.
The first release on CD features Richard Lainhart’s masterpiece in its original 29-minutes-version. There’s no single second to add, after this time everything is told though nothing has been said.
10,00 € - Order now via info@exovo.org!
Also: MANDALA – a new 3” drone work by Mirko Uhlig, Keith Berry, Feu Follet & Jörg Eger – 5,00 €
Hi Jeffrey - thanks for finding me. I enjoyed your music very much. I love the electric bass (I'm an amateur bassist) and I think it works very well in your compositions. Keep up the nice work!
Jeffrey, Your music is full of bare time. I hear your Morton Feldman and your Willie Dixon. Thanks for finding me and inviting me to hear your work Best to you and yours Keith
Thanks for your kind comment about my String Trio for George Crumb. The bit on my MySpace page is the 2nd movement of 3. You can hear the entire piece on my website: gregbartholomew.com
