Beloved w/Piccolo Bass

A most wel­come addi­tion to our instru­men­ta­tion has appeared. Recently Ken and I were talk­ing about the space within our music for a gui­tarist, which we had inter­viewed for with­out suc­cess. He had been track­ing the Onori pic­colo bass on E-bay and decided to go for it. Using the Logic Pro clean elec­tric gui­tar effects trio, we imme­di­ately heard the sound we were look­ing for.

Ken’s clean rhyth­mic gypsy jazz play­ing per­fectly com­pli­mented the new song Beloved. With Ken’s bass play­ing trans­lated to the higher octaves, and my often used left handed bass piano chords and mod­u­la­tions, the song took on a whole new sound; a light­ness and sweet­ness to our ears! The ben­e­fit of branch­ing out and try­ing dif­fer­ent roles with cur­rent musi­cians within the band, is that we know exactly the sound we’re look­ing for.

In search­ing for the right musi­cian before we found it was often a tough call. Either the musician’s play­ing was per­fect, but the lifestyle didn’t fit with ours, or that con­nec­tion wasn’t quite there, and the sound didn’t mesh. I am so happy for this gift of the pic­colo bass, that Ken gave him­self and the band. I do so look for­ward to explor­ing the new dimen­sions in sound this bass will take us!