Townscape by Warm Notes

I started playing the guitar when I was 18 and took up the bass a couple of years later when some friends wanted to form a band. On the guitar I was strictly rhythm but almost as soon as I started playing the bass, things got melodic.

I had to sell the bass two years later as I was completely skint and didn’t pick it up again till I hit thirty, when my girlfriend bought me one for my birthday. I played the bass solidly for twenty years in two more bands and after they finished, on my own playing along to beats in ableton or looping with pedals.

I hit fifty and decided I want to give the guitar another go. You know the rest. Though it should be noted that nearly all of the material on my first two albums, Reflections and Sundown were written on bass.

Over the recent Christmas holidays I picked up my poor neglected bass and had a bit of an epiphany. A) I’d forgotten how much I missed playing it b) I was still a lot better on the bass than I would ever be on guitar and c) all of the stuff I played on guitar sounded like basslines anyway. Even all of the twiddly high shit.

Fortune struck when a recently purchased multi effects unit proved faulty and which I duly returned to the shop in exchange for a shiny new six string bass.
Picking up the bass again awoke something in my brain and I found basslines popping into my head whilst I was going for a walk, making a cup of tea or folding some clothes.
Returning to playing along with beats, I also threw some keyboards into the mix and the result is this e.p.

Hope you enjoy it

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Evolving melodies drifting over warm basslines, loops and pads. Combining my love of echo laden reverberant pop with the influence of ambient, minimilist, komische and fourth world explorers to hopefully make instrumental music that is both reflective and atmospheric as well as having immediacy and momentum.