Jonas Hellborg Releases New Trio Album, Re-Releases 1990 Solo Album
Swedish bass virtuoso Jonas Hellborg has released both a new record as part of a trio trio, The Jazz Raj, and re-released his 24 year-old album Silent Life/Solo Bass 1990 on his Bardo records label.
The Jazz Raj is his collaboration with guitarist Mattias “IA” Eklundh and drummer Ranjit Barot. The record’s two half-hour compositions combine jazz metal and Indian music.
Silent Life…, on the other hand, is almost from a lifetime ago. Hellborg plays the acoustic Roman Bass made by master luthier Abraham Wechter on the record – the same bass he used while playing on Ginger Baker’s Middle Passage. The discovery of unused takes from the recording sessions as well as its pre-processing sound prompted the re-release of the album, which is music produced by just Hellborg and his bass, according to his Bardo records site.
Check out the jazz metal/Indian sounds of The Jazz Raj:
The Jazz Raj is available on CD as is The Silent Life…, which you can find here.
The Jazz Raj Track List:
- The Swami on Park Street
- First Reflection
- Reveal or Conceal
- Jam Baba Smokes
- Here and THen
- On Reflection
- Bacchic Frenzy
- The Preconception
- Spirit Memory
- Biased Truth
- Thing or Thought
- Post Now
The Silent Life/Solo Bass 1990 Track List:
- You Have to Die to Live
- Ahimsa
- When Ambition Ends
- Verbal Sin
- Black Market
- The Silent Life
- Wounded Knee
- Sunyata
- Purple Mind
- Mimamsa
- Deep Pig
- Low
- Deaf to Persuasion