Steve Lawson’s “Beauty and Desolation” Now Available
After releasing it to his Bandcamp subscribers last month, Steve Lawson has made his new album Beauty and Desolation available to the public. The improvised work is themed around beautiful things that are going to destroy us, says Lawson, and that brought out his melodic touch.
“The hip-hop influence that’s been [in my music] for the last few years is still very much central to a lot of it, but there’s also some of the more atmospheric playing that was last developed on the Small Is Beautiful subscriber-only album last year,” he explains. “The first and last tracks here are in similar space to that. But the big presence here is melody. Loads of it. Big long sprawling melodies.”
You can watch Lawson craft the gorgeous song “Language and Memory” live on the spot in this video. Besides his six-string Modulus bass, he uses a Keith McMillen Quneo pad controller to trigger the piano sounds.
Beauty and Desolation is available now on BandCamp.
Beauty and Desolation Track List:
- Beauty and Desolation
- Transcendence and Decay
- Out of the Ashes
- Sign Language
- Language and Memory
- No On Wants Reality Any More
- To End And To Begin Again
In his time with No Treble, Kevin has met hundreds of amazing bassists and interviewed icons like Jack Casady, Victor Wooten, Les Claypool, Marcus Miller, and more. He's a gigging bassist performing jazz in Northern Virginia and bluegrass with The Plate Scrapers up and down the East Coast. Kevin appreciates all genres of music, from R&B to metal and everything in between. Connect with Kevin on Facebook and check his performance schedule on his website.
