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ManyTone Music releases Fretless Bass

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2008-08-18 14:35:23 by ronnie in rekkerd.org
...Fretless Bass , a comprehensive sample library of a 4-string fretless precision bass ManyTone Fretless Bass features Covers a variety of articulations which take advantage of the fretless nature of the instrument (i.e. the distinctive sound of vibrato as well as various increments and speeds of bends Staccato samples, as well as the sustained...
 
 
 
 
 
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Tony Senatore - A 12-String Bass X-Ploration

2007-12-24 01:12:18 by Editor in Muzik Reviews
 
...fretless 12 string bass, which duplicates various string and melody lines, and then comes a track of four string bass that ties together all the loose ends to complete the composition Manolo Badrena (percussion), Van Romaine (drums), and Percy Jones (fretless bass) join him for the video shoot. This provides a glimpse into the recording...
 
 
 
 
 
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Album of the Week - Italuba II, Horacio El Negro Hernandez

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2008-02-15 14:17:21 by chip in The Latin Jazz Corner
...fretless bass exchanges smooth lines with Guerra on the introduction to Te Prima. A major melody floats over a funky pan-Caribbean feel, leading into a subdued solo from Nápoles. Martínez establishes a solid tumbao behind the improvisations, but even when Nápoles intersperses montunos behind Guerras improvisation, the clave remains...
 
 
 
 
 
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BODIN, TOMAS - Pinup Guru (2002)

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2008-03-08 11:32:51 by Editor in Progarchives.com (Progressive rock and related latest reviews)
...fretless bopping solo that would make Jaco Pastorius blush with envy, grooving along with some fine jazzy e-piano meanderings. Blood injects some spacier themes, the patented whistling spaghetti western synthesizer flights that Bodin is famous for, layers of various atmospherics, background muted choir, thunder and lightning, very very...
 
 
 
 
 
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PONTY, JEAN-LUC - Cosmic Messenger (1979)

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2008-03-11 22:52:55 by Editor in Progarchives.com (Progressive rock and related latest reviews)
...fretless tone here, deeeeeelicious!). Allan Zavod provides all the appropriately spacey textures with a bank of synths and tosses off some VERY expressive solos, especially on Fake Paradise. Have to admit though I would've loved to hear more acoustic instruments as well to balance it out, as it was a bit synth/electronics heavy As for the...
 
 
 
 
 
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NIL - Quarante Jours Sur Le Sinaï (2003)

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2008-04-23 02:21:58 by Editor in Progarchives.com (Progressive rock and related latest reviews)
...fretless bass / stick of Samuel, spacey keyboard playing of Benjamin and very accurate percussion of Frank added with some extra instruments. It's mostly instrumental, but Roselyne joins in with her beautiful vocals occationally, sometimes adding only ethereal background voices. The group plays together amazingly well and the composition is...
 
 
 
 
 
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Washington Phillips-Lift Him Up, Thats All

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2008-08-21 06:32:19 by Passion of the Weiss in Passion of the Weiss
...fretless zither. Im not sure what a fretless zither is exactly. My best guess is that its a Jew on valium. Washington Phillips was not a Jew on valium but he was a great musician, one who only cut 16 songs, all of them recorded during the years 1927-1929, all of them worth playing on repeat Buy The Key to the Kingdom Download MP3: Washington...
 
 
 
 
 
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Review: Orange Tree Samples CoreBass: Cherry

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2008-09-22 09:03:36 by ronnie in rekkerd.org
...Fretless Bass While Manytones products are Wusik Engine based, the CoreBass - Cherry libraries are specifically crafted for Kontakt 2/3 Greg writes Kontakt has a very powerful scripting engine which lets me implement the technology that makes the sample set so playable Currently there are three CoreBass libraries available: Cherry , Cherry...
 
 
 
 
 
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Sundaze (49)

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2008-10-05 06:38:00 by Rho in Rho-Xs
...fretless bass playing that holds center stage, even when he is singing.. Some tracks offer hints of reggae, North African modalism, and ambient experimentalism 1 - Tribal Dawn (4:13 2 - Lost Affections In A Room (4:18 3 - Passion In Moisture (4:13 4 - Weather The Windmill (3:53 5 - Savior, Are You With Me? (4:06 6 - Trust Me (4:58 7 -...
 
 
 
 
 
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N-Groove - Its Who We Are

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2007-12-16 18:18:28 by hbh in Smooth Jazz Blog
...fretless bass who gives the group its signature sound Continue reading N-Groove - Its Who We Are