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Groels Kapel Solo

by Aaron Lumley

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Surrounded by horse farms in Belgian Limburg, the Groels Kapel is a tiny country chapel built in 1928. Hidden along a dirt road, it has a stepped brick exterior, a dark tile floor and a wooden ceiling. It is a resonant space, both physically and metaphysically. This solo was recorded there on a humid summer evening late this past June, 2023. The audience sat inside on uncomfortable little wooden chairs or listened from outside through the open doors. The stereo ribbon microphone hanging from the ceiling picked up the birds singing out in the evening light.

This is the first solo recording that I have released since Montreal’s STABLE Editions pressed “Aaron Lumley plays the Doghouse Bass” in 2019. That same year that I moved to Amsterdam. Even without taking the obvious upheaval of the pandemic of 2020 into consideration, the move to Europe has had a massive impact on my music. Playing as a member of bands like Bioluminus (with Ada Rave and Onno Govaert) or with Leo Svirsky and the River Without Banks, I have learned to play with greater fluidity and to unlock a more relentless flow of energy from within. Situations like these have honed my hearing, helped me to sustain my focus over successively longer time-spans, to pair down materials and connect more deeply to the sound as it unfolds through each successive moment.

The music on the self-produced “Groels Kapel Solo” brings these new skills and levels of awareness to the overtone-laden, long-form improvisations and heavy blues/free jazz aesthetic of my previous recordings. It is as stripped down and direct a statement as I can make: a humbly-recorded live performance played with bare hands and a homemade bow.

Thank you for listening.

—Aaron Lumley

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released August 4, 2023

Aaron Lumley — “Groels Kapel Solo”

Acoustic double bass music created, performed, recorded and mixed by Aaron Lumley. All Rights Reserved.

Recorded live at the Groels Kapel, Limburg on June 24 2023 as part of a JazzBlazzt presentation featuring Gregoire Tirtiaux and Aaron Lumley.

Gratitude to JazzBlazzt: Eric, Vivi, Stephan, J.P. … plus everyone who came out to listen!

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Aaron Lumley Amsterdam, Netherlands

Aaron Lumley is an exploratory double bass player and improvising musician from Canada based in Amsterdam since 2019.

Performing solo and in Bioluminus with Onno Govaert, Ada Rave; OAONTI with John Dikeman, Marta Warelis and Sun Mi Hong, Leo Svirsky and the River Without Banks etc.
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