Legendary bassist Tony Levin, greatest identified for his work with King Crimson and Peter Gabriel, has introduced the brand new album Bringing It Right down to the Bass. The LP options contributions from Robert Fripp (King Crimson), Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater), Vinnie Colaiuta (Frank Zappa, Joni Mitchell), and extra.
The album arrives through Flatiron Recordings on September thirteenth, at some point after Levin kicks off the extremely anticipated “BEAT” tour celebrating the music of King Crimson with Adrian Belew, Danny Carey, and Steve Vai. In response to Levin, the album is a long-time coming, as he’s been engaged on numerous the songs for years, if not a long time.
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“It might have been carried out a very long time in the past, frankly,” Levin stated in a press launch, “but it surely’s due to an issue I’ve, which is an excellent downside to have. And that’s that I’ve a whole lot of touring and that’s what I like to do, taking part in stay. It simply didn’t give me a lot time at house to work on ending the album that I’ve been engaged on for 5 or 6 years.”
Levin, who made Consequence‘s checklist of the 100 Biggest Bassists of All Time, added, “However, a yr in the past Might, I checked out my schedule and noticed a whole lot of touring with Peter Gabriel for nearly a yr after which in November 2023, there was a Stick Males tour –after which in January a Levin Brothers tour – and I stated to myself, ‘If I take March, April and Might off from any stay taking part in and possibly even any recording for different folks and actually give attention to this, I can lastly get this album out.’ It might have occurred ten years earlier than if I had the gumption to show down excursions.”
As for the music on the album, Levin defined, “I had items very a lot within the prog-rock vein and I had items that have been primarily based on the bass, and someplace across the center of the report I made the troublesome determination to toss the prog stuff – properly, not toss it precisely, reserve it for one more album – and the extra I targeted, I selected the form of items that needed to me a way of unity to it in that it’s in regards to the bass. Not songs with singing about the bass, however every tune is both primarily based on a bass riff or a bass method that I then invited some nice rhythm sections to play on.”