Blake Branch: “Space Lion” for Solo Bass
We don’t know anime very well, but Blake Branch is making us love the music of anime.
The first time we featured Blake, he’d put together an incredible all-bass arrangement of “Raspberry Heaven“. This time around, he’s taken Yoko Kanno’s composition “Space Lion”, which was featured in the anime series Cowboy Bebop.
The tune starts off really mellow and picks up with some nice percussion backing and incredible melodies and solo bass work, leading up to some terrific soloing over the backing track.
Blake is playing his Fodera Imperial 5-string tuned E-C.
Keep ’em coming, Blake.
Sounds great!
Nice!
Sounds awesome!
Wow, that is incredible!
I’ll have to show Charles this one. :)
Awesome! I love it.
sounds deep… A bass deep EXELLENT! 4:20
Wow, beautiful. It’s compositions like this that demonstrates the range of music one can get from the bass.
beautiful indeed
Plus, I used to love “Cowboy Bebop”!
Very impressive and tastefull. Inspiring!