Upright, everything is alright

Portland OR

Description

Oh, upright bassists, you glorious majestical beings! Each note you pluck is melody and percussion simultaneously. You can grind staccato bowed notes that rock harder than the crunchiest metal guitar. Yet you can create that rich woody warmth that nothing else compares to. I’m a singer/songwriter/guitarist working with a drummer, but really missing bass. Our music is quite a mix. You’ll hear elements of folk, pop, jazz, Celtic, twee, even grunge in the guitar, and the drummer has one foot in classic rock and one in hip hop. At the risk of sounding pompous, I don’t think there’s a name for our genre. We’re pretty new to playing together so we don’t yet have anything recorded. I have several songs on BandCamp, which approximate our sound. The guitars and electric bass are me, and the drums are GarageBand-generated. Here’s one to start with: https://smolsnail.bandcamp.com/track/roadmap And here’s a song that’s not us at all, but I think is a wonderful example of how I imagine upstanding bass fitting into the mix (bass shows up around 1:30): https://youtu.be/X-2cH3CdO2Y A bit about us, non-musically: we’re both working parents in what they call the middle age. We’re not in it for the world tours and the record deals. We just love making music. We want to gig around the area, and recording is also something we’re working on via home-studios. We’ll probably get along well with you if you’re not inclined to say things like “all lives matter” or “not all men” or things like that. FWIW, I'm a White they/them and the drummer is a Black he/him. keywords: stand up, double bass, contrabass