Steve Lawson has been one of the most inspiring and creative solo bassists to come out of the UK in recent years. His solo albums and collaborative projects have been the talk of the world-wide bass community and have drawn enthusiastic reviews in the press. His latest album ‘Grace And Gratitude’ finds him […]
Interview - from BassRocket.com (Jan 2005)
May 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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Review - Conversations (Bass Guitar Magazine)
May 7th, 2008 · No Comments
“The sleeve notes to Conversations suggest that the players had no charts, no tunes, no keys, or anything prepared before recording the project. After listening to the album I refused to believe that such melodic and graceful tunes could emerge from so sparse a formula, so a quick call to Mr Lawson was in order…
‘yeah, […]
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Review - For The Love Of Open Spaces (No Man list)
May 7th, 2008 · No Comments
“There is a new Theo Travis and Steve Lawson album “For The Love Of Open Spaces”. If you haven’t heard about Theo Travis yet, just check credits of the PT and no-man (and even Bass Communion!) albums you have and on some of them you’ll find this name. (My fave no-man contribution of TT i […]
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Review - For The Love of Open Spaces (Penguin Guide To Jazz On Cd)
May 7th, 2008 · No Comments
For The Love Of Open Spaces, reviewed in the Penguin Guide To Jazz On CD
***(*) For The Love Of Open Spaces
Pillow Mountain PMR 0014 Travis; Steve Lawson (b). 7/03.
Lusciously beautiful without descending into New Age clap-trap, the music here walks an awkward line with great confidence. Both musicians make extensive use of loop technology (although, […]
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playing for other people
May 5th, 2008 · No Comments
people I’ve played with/for - Airstar, Alex Douglas, Alex Legg, Amy Kohn, Andre LaFosse, Andrea Hazell, Andrew Buckton, Andrew Gouche, Andrew Pask, Andy Hamill, Andy Thornton, Andy Williamson, Ben Castle, Ben Okafor, Boo Hewerdine, Calamateur, Carrie Melbourne, Charlie Moreno, Chris Bowater, Claudio Zanghieri, Cleveland Watkiss, Cole Moreton, Commonwealth, Corey Mwamba, Davey Spillane, David and Carrie […]
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friends and inspiration
May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Stevie Stuffs
Pillow Mountain Records - My record label
Recycle Collective - My monthly looping/improv gig in London
Steve @ MySpace - My MySpace page.
Steve @ Last.fm - my last.fm artist page.
Steve @ YouTube.com - lots of videos!
Steve @ FaceBook.com - find me on facebook.
Steve @ ReverbNation.com - loads more music to listen to.
Steve @ iLike.com - click […]
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Timeline and Trivia
May 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off
Musical Equipment Used
- Modulus Graphite Basses (6 string fretted and fretless and 4 string fretted), A Rick Turner 5 String Renaissance ‘Amplicoustic’ fretless bass, Accugroove bass cabinets, the Looperlative LP1 for looping, Lexicon MPX-G2 for processing, an E-Bow+, Bass Centre Elites strings, East-UK preamps, Evidence Audio cables. And I carry my bass around in an […]
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MP3s
May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
On this page you can listen to EVERY track from EVERY album that I’ve released! Yay! Just hit play on whichever of the embedded albums you want to hear! The titles of the album link to where to buy them, or there are the iTunes buttons… You can also download all of Lessons Learned From […]
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Reviews
May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve had loads of great press for my solo albums and gigs - have a read of some of it below!
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Behind Every Word CD Reviews -
Jyoti Mishra (#23 in his 2006 albums of the year round-up).
Seth Horan (in his round up of the best of 2006)
From no Warning (in italian)
From PureMusic.com
From Sid Smith
From […]
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Gigs over the next few days
October 11th, 2006 · No Comments
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