The Music on this page...
"And We Drove" - Rene Hart
This is a demo I recently did for a tune I wrote. It turned out pretty nice so I thought I'd share it. With Erik Lawrence on Saxophone and myself on everything else.
"Soulville" - Hipmotism . . . . available here:
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This group is a really fun bunch; Erik Lawrence on baritone saxophone, Steven Bernstein on slide trumpet, Allison Miller on drums and toys, and myself on upright bass and various gadgets.
Window Seat Nostalgia Sketch
A thing I wrote, part of a larger piece. Here it's played with Anat Fort, piano and Lieven Venken, drums and percussion.
"Come Together" (exerpt) - Hipmotism -
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With some rollicking distorted upright bass.
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Some Bio Stuff:
Bassist and Composer Rene Hart is a unique musician who draws from a wide range of influences. Rene grew up on an small rural island in the Northwest where he began playing trumpet in elementary school, later picking up the guitar and bass when his family moved to Seattle, WA.
Rene Has toured the world extensively, performing at major Jazz and multi-genre music festivals, including the Newport Jazz, the North Sea Jazz and the Montreal Jazz Festivals. He has made numerous appearances on television including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and the Late Night with Conan O’Brian Show. He has appeared and in several films and his compositions and playing can also be heard on numerous soundtracks.
Rene has recording or performed with a wide range of artists including Julian Priester, Dakota Staton, George Russell, Steven Bernstein, Branford Marsalis, James Hunter, Sean Lennon, Erik Lawrence, Bilal, Mark Rapp, John Medeski, Joan Osborne, Seamus Blake, Marya Lawrence, Chris Cheek, Phillip Harper, Billy Hart, Abraham Burton, Sasha Dobson, Bobby Watson, Anat Fort, Didi Gutman, and Mark Ronson.
Rene Currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
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And on a more personal note...
I play the bass, mostly the upright bass.
I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. I love the ocean. I once sailed to Greenland, watched whales swim under the ship, nearly died in a massive storm, climbed onto an iceburg and watched the northern lights from above the artic circle as they consumed the entire sky. As a child I lived in a teepee for a summer. I miss the country, but now I miss the city when I'm there. I like a lot of different kinds of music, especially soulful music made by real people.
Sometimes I get infatuated with playing the upright bass through all sorts of gadgets like wah-wah pedals and laptops... whatever makes a cool sound.
I am finally beginning to put my own music together. I've been writing music that I really love but have been too busy to make it happen the way it needs to. I think of this music like a bunch of strangely constructed dioramas. Now that time is coming up on the horizon and I'm pretty excited about it.
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