Solo recording March 2021
In March 2021, I went into the studio together with my dear friend, the sound engineer Jakob Riis to record my second solo double bass album1 – The Hand, The Bow and The Bass.
Below you will find a reflectiv text that I wrote after the recording and as well two tracks out of eight from the recording to come. Named control – uncontrol and uncontrol – control. You will also find the track "a wave" in the timeline page. Enjoy!!
To express the full spectrum of musical dynamics.
To evoke a unique experience found between a detuned E (C) string and the highest harmonics.
To reach the sultastos as well as the ponticellos.
To play with a crackled bow pressure and with flying flautandos.
To elicit the wind with my fingertips, and evoke a sonoros depth in the body of my bass and in myself behind the instrument, similar to the depth found in a musician and his djembe.
To simultaneously mix and create musical cocktails. Shake and stir, and see what concoction appears.
To not only seek a safe haven but to also dare to relish the fragility, and the intensity, of the music. To inhale and exhale, and allow a silence after the musical intensity.
To stretch the spectrum of the double bass and also myself.
To within the relationship between the instrument and myself, control the uncontrollable and to let go of control within the framework of control.
1 At Inter Arts Center in Malmö, Sweden
