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Richard Ford

Basso Profondissimo

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Malibu
1 Calango Reco
2 Dusty-Theatre
3 Palhaco
4 Malibu
5 Sinking Up
6 Westbeth
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The musical world of Basso Profondissimo springs from the imagination of English bassist and producer Richard Ford. The collection was conceived and played on bass, creating a unique and surprising melding of sounds and adding some rough edges to the genres of jazz, ambient, bossa nova and neoclassical.

Sharing some of the same musical landscape as Sigur Rós, Lyle Mays, Bebel Gilberto, ECM Records, and Bill Frisell, Basso Profondissimo employs a cinematic language, often minimal and evocative. There are surprising moments, as when softer passages burst into something rougher and edgier. In the neoclassical-leaning pieces, unexpected elements surface, like floating transparencies revealed from somewhere back in the scenery. Elsewhere, bubbling rhythms emerge, cracking pieces open into exotic meters. This is not a work concerned with virtuosity (though references to seminal bassists like Jaco Pastorius can be heard in places). This collection is about evoking moods and character, not about flash.

  • Using a wide range of tones and instruments, Richard Ford creates rich images and deep shadow'd atmospheres / Jazz Weekly
    Posted At: June 28, 2019 12:00 AM

    Richard Ford uses a panoply of basses on this (mostly) solo album of songs and soundscapes. Using a wide range of tones and instruments , he can create rich images and deep shadow'd atmospheres as on "Dusty Theatre" as well as a dreamy pastoral "Palhaco" with melody used with a piccolo bass. He's rich and melodic without any extra layers on "Westbeth" while with vocalist Michelle Gonzales creates a misty...
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  • PISA's PUNTORADIO: animajazz - features Richard Ford's 'Malibu'
    Posted At: June 15, 2019 12:00 AM

    In the episode n ° 870 of "ANIMAJAZZ", conceived and conducted by BRUNO POLLACCI , airing TUESDAY 18 June at 20.30, on PUNTORADIO, also in streaming on www.puntoradio.fm is 'Malibu' from Richard Ford's latest recording; 'Basso Profondissimo.' The musical world of Basso Profondissimo springs from the imagination of English bassist and producer Richard Ford. The collec...
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  • Richard Ford gets the basses out of the closet on new EP / textura
    Posted At: May 1, 2019 12:00 AM

    Though Richard Ford recorded his Basso Profondissimo EP in Venice, California during the spring and summer months of 2018, its gestation spanned decades. The idea for the project originated in the late-‘80s when Ford began recording demos but then tabled it when an LA move to pursue film music opportunities beckoned. After giving time and energy to polishing the work of others, Ford experienced an ...
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  • Richard Ford turns sound into something more visceral and visual on 'Basso Profondissimo' / Elsewhere
    Posted At: April 8, 2019 12:00 AM

    British-born, LA-based producer/composer/bassist Richard Ford is the sum of many influences, from Bill Nelson's Red Noise band to soundtrack work, jazz to Latin-influenced music, downtown NYC in the Eighties to remixing for successful Hollywood movies. On his new EP - Basso Profondissimo, the soundtrack work perhaps best explains the evocative Dusty Theatre, a brooding and multi-layered piece wi...
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