Stephen Bruner aka Thundercat on new Flying Lotus album

[picnic01]

Just picked up the new Flying Lotus cd Cosmogramma, awesome album, one of the best electronic albums I've heard. There are some crazy bass parts laid down by Thundercat on a lot of the songs. I thought his playing was great with Erykah Badu, but on the Flying Lotus stuff he plays some crazy sh*t!

here's a few links

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht5VaNI-RfA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr_zDCjphF0

he plays on the most of the songs on the album, go check it out!

[Randy Newton]

people are snorting on Thundercat (even here on TalkBass...that's a shame!)

i guess you've already seen this but just in case...

YouTube - ‪MIguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble feat Flying Lotus "Drips/Take Notice"‬‏

you can also hear him play kinda regular bass on Keziah Jones' Nigerian Wood (with Karriem Riggins on drums and production)

[picnic01]

Yeah I saw that. He's about to release a solo album.

Pitchfork: Thundercat Reveals Flying Lotus-Produced LP

[Randy Newton]

Originally Posted by picnic01

Yeah I saw that. He's about to release a solo album.

Pitchfork: Thundercat Reveals Flying Lotus-Produced LP

yeah i just heard about that today
do you know Shafiq Husayn's solo album? incredible stuff in there, music and bass-wise

[picnic01]

No I hadn't, sounds awesome though. Need to pick that up.
This is the song I just listened to:
YouTube - ‪Shafiq Husayn - Lil' Girl Feat. Fatima Stephen Thundercat Bruner‬‏

I like the Avon Barksdale cameo!

[Randy Newton]

Originally Posted by picnic01

No I hadn't, sounds awesome though. Need to pick that up.
This is the song I just listened to:
YouTube - ‪Shafiq Husayn - Lil' Girl Feat. Fatima Stephen Thundercat Bruner‬‏

I like the Avon Barksdale cameo!

the whole album is sick!!!
+1 for the Avon Barksdale cameo (ain't all the girls in this vid hot or what?!?)

[Randy Newton]

Originally Posted by picnic01

No I hadn't, sounds awesome though. Need to pick that up.
This is the song I just listened to:
YouTube - ‪Shafiq Husayn - Lil' Girl Feat. Fatima Stephen Thundercat Bruner‬‏

I like the Avon Barksdale cameo!

listen to this and get that album A.S.A.P.

YouTube - ‪Shafiq Husayn - Dust & Kisses‬‏

[ugly_bassplayer]

Originally Posted by Randy Newton

people are snorting on Thundercat (even here on TalkBass...that's a shame!)

i guess you've already seen this but just in case...

YouTube - ‪MIguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble feat Flying Lotus "Drips/Take Notice"‬‏

you can also hear him play kinda regular bass on Keziah Jones' Nigerian Wood (with Karriem Riggins on drums and production)

That was insane .....

[Randy Newton]

Originally Posted by ugly_bassplayer

That was insane .....

that's right, insane!!!
Chris Dave+Thundercat is like nuclear warfare...

[Roscoe East]

I'd never even heard of Stephen Bruner or Thundercat until this morning, reading the daily free paper on the subway, I come across a review of The Golden Age Of Apocalypse, and from the way they described it, wow, I might actually like this guy!

"A natural bassist, Bruner ably switches between syncopated Prefuse 73-style laptop funk, David Axelrod-like orchestral overtures, and the plump, talking basslines of Weather-Report-era Jaco Pastorius to create a third-eye-seeking set of thickly arranged, jazz-fusion-inspired instrumental hip hop...Bruner's love of the stone low-end groove always leads to one."

I mean, gosh, with that many hyphens it must be good!


(I believe that review is by Charles Devilbiss)

[markjazzbassist]

loving that cosmagramma, do the astral plane

say him with badu, i'm digging this too

[BIG97BEN]

I've really enjoyed his album and other work but does anyone know how to score a copy of the Miguel Atwood-Ferguson recording. I've searched the interwebs and other than a few YouTube videos, I can't find anything.