Kornin basisti Fieldy uuden sooloalbumin kimpussa
Yhdysvaltalaisen metalliyhtye Kornin basisti Reginald ”Fieldy” Arvizu on parhaillaan viimeisiä silauksia tulevaan ”Bassically” -nimiseen sooloalbumiinsa. Fieldy on kertonut albumista tuoreessa Weld For Birminghamin haastattelussa kertoen sen sisältävän kaikenlaista musiikkia aina fusion jazzista punkin kautta bluesiin. Voit lukea Fieldyn ajatuksia albumista tästä:
”I’m actually almost finished. I’m having Marco, who’s our sound guy and who is also a mixer, he’s going to mix my bass album in November. I’m doing some final touches on it. So that’ll be out. It’s a musical ride. It’s all instrumental. I play 15-string bass, fretless basses — every kind of bass you can think of, Fender jazz, whatever. I don’t even know if we could name all the basses I played on there. It takes you on a ride. Jazz fusion, punk, Latin, blues, reggae… I don’t even know if I even left any style of music out. As much as I could put on there. That’s how it is. It’s just an instrumental album.”
”To write it, my inspiration was probably my wife Dena. She was, like, ’You should put a bass album out.’ And then I really thought about it. And if you go back in time to my inspiration in my early days, I listened to a lot of Stanley Clarke. And then from there on, I got into a lot of Flea. And I started really listening to some of these great bands — if you’re not listening for it, you don’t really know how great a lot of those bass players are unless you listen. For example, a lot of classic rock bands I listened to as a kid — now, I was like, ’Wait, I just found the EAGLES on the bass, rippin’! Or LED ZEPPELIN! LED ZEPPELIN gets to rippin’ on bass! You hear these great tones that as a kid, I’d never really listened to. And now, I’m like starting to listen and trip out on it.”
