Twinscapes live at Grooveday - Full Set.

Live Twinscapes, split screen dual bass trio format....

Twinscapes Live in December

 A couple of Italian gigs with Twinscapes this month with event details in the links below:

Rome - L'Asino che Vola

https://www.facebook.com/events/211442859778154/

Lugagnano - Club Il Giardino

http://www.clubilgiardino.org/eventi/vedi/757/twinscapes-l-feliciati-c-edwin-r-gualdi-a-bassato

Looking forward to playing some of our new tracks.....

Twinscapes 2 Reviews

Something Else Reviews

Audiophile Audition

All About Jazz

JP's Music Blog

Another review from All About Jazz

The Progressive Aspect

Italy:

Sound36

Storia Della Musica

Distortioni

Bass My Fever (In English and Italian)

France:

ProgCritique

Germany:

(Eclipsed Magazine)

Twinscapes - "Tin Can" and Pre-Order information.

See below, the first audio preview from forthcoming Twinscapes album "A Modern Approach to the Dancefloor Vol2".

Release date is the 29th October on Rarenoise. The album will be available on CD, vinyl and all the usual digital formats.

Pre-order is now available on Burning Shed, for both CD and Vinyl
...and also both formats are available from here:
https://feliciati-edwin.bandcamp.com/album/twinscapes-vol-2-a-modern-approach-to-the-dancefloor

Twinscapes Vol2 - A Modern Approach to the Dancefloor

Forthcoming Twinscapes album cover….release date is October 26th on Rarenoise. More information soon….

Twinscapes Live and upcoming album.

Lorenzo Feliciati and I will be performing in Rome on August 1st in a trio format with drummer Roberto Gualdi. For a little taste of the live Twinscapes, please see the video below, filmed in Milan late last year:



I am also happy to say there will be a second full length Twinscapes  album release seeing the light of day later this year on Rarenoise…more on that later…

Best,

Colin

New Twinscapes for 2018....

I am happy to say this year will see the release of a second Twinscapes album, with Lorenzo Felicaiti and myself joined by Roberto Gualdi on drums and also on some tracks by percussionist Andi Pupato.
More news on this when I have it, as we are still in the closing stages of making the album, but for the remainder of January, the album can be pre-ordered with all other upcoming Rarenoise releases, as part of their yearly  "Leap of Faith", please see below for an audio track:

Twinscapes - Italy/Switzerland

Short, (but no doubt intense) burst of Twinscapes activity coming up:

Marcus Club in Momo:

FB event is here

Padova (with guest violin from Andrea Bassato)

..and our first Swiss date (in St. Gallen) with support from Next Dimension

http://www.grabenhalle.ch/colin-edwin-lorenz-felicati-twinscapes-ita-bassist-von-porcupine-tree-support-next-dimension-ch/

Twinscapes Live in Italy

See below, I am very much looking forward playing with Roberto Gualdi and Lorenzo Feliciati again for three upcoming dates with Twinscapes this month:

Violinist Andrea Bassato will be joining us for the date on the 25th.

Twinscapes Live in Portugal

Poster for upcoming Twinscapes Show in Lisbon as part of the Jazz im Goethe Garten series of gigs.

Lorenzo Feliciati and myself once again with drummer Roberto Gualdi.

More information here

Twinscapes "Shaken" - Live

Twinscapes in Italy Poster

Italian poster for the Twinscapes dates - pic.twitter.com/15n5PBxzj5
— Colin Edwin (@ColinEdwinT) November 5, 2014

Upcoming Twinscapes Live Dates.

Below is a list of all the forthcoming gigs and clinics for Twinscapes, in the UK and Italy, I've included links where I have them. Drummer Roberto Gualdi will be joining Lorenzo Feliciati and myself on all the dates.

UK

November 1st  The Islington London, "Wayward Basses" with Steve Lawson and Prescott (see previous post)

Click here for tickets.

Italy

November 7th  Prog Exhibition Milan

November 21st Clinic @ CPM Music Institute (Milan) Via Privato Elio Reguzzoni, 15 Milano

November 22 Clinic   @ Turin Lizard School ore 16 al Punto Rec di Via Gressoney 29/B Torino

November  23rd Groovehouse Music Concert and Clinic @Il Melo ONLUS
Via Magenta 3-21013 Gallarate (VA)

November 24th Clinic @ Saint Louis Music College followed by concert at Planet Club Rome Via del Commercio, 36, 00154 Roma (with Luca Spagnoletti)

November 25th Clinic and concert in Firenze details TBC

November 26th Concert at La Salumera della Musica, Via Antonio Pasinetti 4, 20141 Milano (0256807350)

Best,

Colin

Twinscapes - Live in Milan

Twinscapes will be doing a set in Milan on November 7th, see above, and this date will be followed later in November with a series of shows, ( Including Rome and Firenze) and also a few clinics, details of which I'll post up here soon.

Roberto Gualdi will be joining us on drums for all the dates, including London on the 1st November.

Best,

Colin

Wayward Basses Night in London in November

See below, the poster for the "Wayward Basses" evening coming up in November.

I first became aware of Kev Hopper's unique, quirky and engaging bass style through his work with the band Stump in the '80's. It's amazing to me that I first saw them on TV's "The Tube", you can knock the 1980's all you like (deservedly so at times for sure), but at least then, odd, unusual bands and artists could get sometimes get through the mire of tacky commercial pop and be seen on mainstream TV, I can't think of any equivalent today.

I've followed Kev's post Stump output, and his music is always really original, offbeat, fun and inspiring, especially the album "Spoombung" which, as well as being a really adventurous listen, shows off some great sonic possibilities of the bass guitar.

Kev will be playing with his great new trio called Prescott,  featuring drummer Frank Byng (of Snorkel, another band well worth checking out)  and polymath keyboard player Rhodri Marsden.

Solo bass experimentalist, serial collaborator and looping expert Steve Lawson will also be playing a set. To pick a random example of his work, this version of REM's "Orange Crush" below illustrates Steve's ability to really develop and expand a familiar theme into something completely new and engrossing:

....he's incredibly prolific, so a trip to his website is going to be more up to date than anything I can say.

A Facebook Event page for the gig can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1455971618023694/

….and Ticket information can be found here:

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/288870

…...and you can read more about the gig on the Bass Guitar Magazine website if you click here.

…..all set for a great night. I am really looking forward to it.

Best,

Colin

PS Twinscapes will also be playing London's Match and Fuse Festival on October 4th, please see my previous post here.

Twinscapes out now

The Twinscapes album is out now, from all the usual outlets and of course Burning Shed and the Rarenoise store.
Please check shipping dates, as the vinyl is scheduled to go out after the CD version, due to a longer manufacturing time.

You can now hear two complete tracks from the album streaming from the Rarenoise Jukebox here:


 

or following this link:  https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/jukebox/twinscapes/twinscapes/

See also my previous Blogs here and here.

See above, Lorenzo Feliciati and I will be at the London Bass Guitar Show on Saturday March 1st, performing a set and then talking about our approach to playing together.

Best,

Colin

Twinscapes Pre-Order Information

Pre-orders are now being taken for the Twinscapes album (yours truly and fellow bassist Lorenzo Feliciati with contributions from Nils Petter Molvaer, David Jackson, Andi Pupato and Roberto Gualdi see previous post here), which will be out the middle of next month.

Note that due to the longer manufacturing time, the vinyl will be available a couple of weeks after the CD.

Click here for CD via burning shed and here for vinyl. Alternatively, to order direct from Rarenoise, please follow this link:

http://www.rarenoiserecords.com/edwin-feliciati

Various combos of digital, CD and vinyl are available.

There's an album preview on my soundcloud page:

Lastly, some more information about Twinscapes can be found on my website here.

Bye for now,

Colin

Twinscapes Preview and Cover Image

The Twinscapes album,  a joint effort between myself and Italian bassist and composer Lorenzo Feliciati is something I've been working on throughout this year, and I am pleased to say it's now finally mixed, mastered and at the manufacturing stage. The release date is set for mid February 2014 through Rarenoise on CD, Vinyl and various digital formats.

It's been a really inspiring, continually surprising and also enjoyable process working on the album, not least because the two bass format has certainly made me re-evaluate and re-think some aspects of my own approach to playing, and also enabled me to explore some of the sonic possibilities of processing the bass with various effects that I usually can't find a context for.

Additionally, Lorenzo and I have been able to expand the album's sound with input from some amazing guest musicians, who have each added their own very special performances.

 Nils Petter Molvaer, with some of his absolutely transcendent and instantly recognizable trumpet playing.

Drummer Roberto Gualdi, (also of PFM) has played two powerful and intense performances.

Once described as the "Van Gogh of the Saxophone", David Jackson  (of the legendary Van Der Graaf Generator) contributes some magnificently spirited saxophone.

Andi Pupato, is perhaps best known as a former member of the intense "Zen-funk" group Nik Bartch's Ronin, although I also knew his work with Slow Electric and guitarist Robert Jurjendal, plays an array of percussion and has also added some unique sonic elements.

The album has been mixed by bassist/producer Bill Laswell, of whose playing and musical approach I have been a longterm admirer.

The album cover image above uses a photo taken by yours truly, utilising Redscale film and my trusty Fisheye2 camera.

I am pretty sure I took this in Albuquerque, New Mexico, whilst on tour a few years ago. I took a few rolls of film whilst wandering around, and I found it to have plenty of interesting urban geometry.
There is of course some stunning scenery in New Mexico, but I'll save that for another blog...

Design is by Stefano Fratus.

In order to hear some of the sounds, there is now a Twinscapes album preview edit on the Rarenoise Jukebox:

…and not forgetting, a very short youtube trailer over on my channel:

I'll be posting up pre-order information, track listing, etc in the near future.

Best,

Colin

Twinscapes Teaser

A little taster from the forthcoming Twinscapes album, now scheduled for a February release on Rarenoise:



More to follow,

Best,


Colin

Twinscapes Recording

I am glad to say that Twinscapes, set in motion for a one off experimental impromtu gig earlier this year, has blossomed into a proper ongoing collaboration with an as yet untitled full length album scheduled for release in February next year on Rarenoise.

To that end, Lorenzo Feliciati and I got together in late June in a somewhat mysterious studio, hidden deep in the English countryside to develop our material together.

Lorenzo and I are currently sifting through, editing and evolving the material further, and also planning the input of some guest musicians, more info will be forthcoming.....

We've now also confirmed a special performance at the London Bass Guitar Show in March 2014.

Bye for now,

Colin

PS. Also a shout out for Lorenzo's latest album (in conjunction with Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari) Berserk!, which is a great album for the adventurous listener and is currently "heavy spins" (as they say) in my earphones.

Photos by Alistair Peck from Human Eye