Bjorn Meyer plays six stringed electric bass as well as the acoustic bass with sounds that you’ll swear come from either the classical guitar or mellotron. These twelve songs range from mystical and foggy backgrounds akin to The Hound of the Baskervilles as on “Aldebaran” and “Garden of Silence” to elegiac strings a strumming during “the pastoral “Traces of a Song” and title track. At times Meyer brings both acoustic and electric together, with an edgy background hiding behind the drapery on “Banyan Waltz” while “Pulse” mixes a drone groove infused with a folk melody. Tapped strings of joy bring buoyancy to “Dance” and percussive rhythms get rocking on “Three Thirteen.” This isn’t your grandfather’s bass!
ECM Records