"Bass Only" Music

[VoodooJazz]

There’s quite a lot of wonderful bass tracks by Dave Holland. Look him up, for sure.

I also really love his solo cello album “Life Cycle”. Most relaxing album ever.

 

[rufus.K]

 

[telecopy]

Although I have mine idea with this album, yeah, some examples would be usefull. Thanks!

The Fish.. almost all bass. So awesome.

 

[Klangfarbe]

and since there is allready way to much Jazz in here :

Colin Hodgkinson

 

[Pacodelivery]

It’s not “only” bass but if the OP is saying this includes songs with just bass and drums then there’s a couple great bands that fit the definition. The most obvious one to me is death from above 1979:



Big Business is another fantastic example of a band with just a drummer and a bassist:

 

[rufus.K]

and since there is allready way to much Jazz in here :

Colin Hodgkinson

AND hes a Lefty

 

[micguy]

Noone has mentioned "Big Bottom" (Spinal Tap) yet?

On the flipside, there is a whole Mettalica album with essentially no bass. OK, maybe several.

 

[Dincrest]

How about Damian Coccio:

Maybe the various artists in Bassist Alliance Project:

Or one of my favorite bands, a bass and drums duo called Bangladeafy!

 

[onsecondbass]

Kira has a new album called Awkward

I totally forgot to add that one!

It came out a couple of years ago but it is a great double bass album.

In Progress - Awkward

 

[rufus.K]

 

[rufus.K]

 

[Michedelic]

Another bass/drum duo from a few years back, may be too sludgey for you...

All sorts of Julie...



All sorts of early Cure...

Shriekback...

There’s a bit of piano in this, but the bulk of it is a bass duet(Steve Thompson and Larry Taylor)...

Mick Karn has a multitude of basscentric recordings, but I’ll have to get back to you later on that.

 

[GFreeman1008]

Here ya go... Now we’re cooking with gas:

 

[Durham52]

You could check out some of these names on youtube,
Jacques Bono
Zander Zon
Grzegorz Kosinski
Kinga Gayk
Aram Bedrosian
Damian Coccio
Miki Santamaria
Dani Weber
Mai Leisz

 

[EchoEcho]

Aram Bedrosian



Kenny Weydener


Remco Hendriks

 

[onsecondbass]

Drums and bass?

Bridesmaid

 

[Londo Molari]

 

[rufus.K]

Another Morphine cover:

 

[Phaenomenal]

Steve Lawson has recorded more solo bass music than anyone I know and has a slew of albums on his bandcamp available to listen. Nearly all are solo bass recordings.

 

[Koshchei]

Hello everyone!

I've been following this forum for some six months and I must say it's awesome! Helped me a lot!

So, I started working on my new album. BUT this is the first album I plan to do using only bass and probably drums in some parts of a few songs.
I've been recording and expanding riffs for a few month now. I would say that pre-production is done and some recordings have been started.
Problem is I don't have any reference song or album for that, so my goal with this thread is to hear your voices, your opinions, your thoughts.

So far I can only say it's a melodic kind of music. I'm using fingers, not pick and in half of songs I use chord changes and combinations as classical guitarists do on their instruments. But as soon as I finished it, it'll be online.

P.S.
Sorry for mistakes. English is not my native language.

Check out Jonas Hellborg.