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Me, My Bass and I

by Craig Akin

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1.
Do It 02:28
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2.
Poet Gorman 03:29
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3.
Birch Street Mission 03:46
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4.
Le Bouchon 02:52
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5.
Jezebel 02:41
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6.
Capitol Riot 04:01
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7.
Chega de Saudade 05:06
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8.
Bubble Rap 02:29
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about

I began playing bass professionally while in college. Since completing my Music Education degree in 1997 I've played over 5,000 gigs of everything imaginable (even a bris) and been featured on 100+ albums. In all this time I've accumulated a lot of musical ideas in my head but have never been proactive about getting them out on my own project. Until 2020 when you know what happened.

By this time I had already developed a simple yet effective home studio to record bass parts for people around the world. Now all of a sudden I had nothing but time to reevaluate everything. I decided part of what I wanted to do while the world was figuring itself out was record myself and get some of my ideas documented. This is how it began.

​Up to this point I also had a lot of experience capturing video for countless projects so I decided if I'm going to record my ideas then I might as well set up video too. I didn't set out to make an album because I never dreamed of it, until months later when I had a few tunes recorded and realized I could put out an album (and my wife Abbie saying "of course you can put out an album, why not?"). So fast forward a year, now I've got a bunch of tunes recorded each with an accompanying video. And rather than rush to get the album out I figure it would be fun to release around my 50th birthday in 2023. And here we are!

credits

released July 14, 2023

Recorded by Craig at his home
Mixed by Joel Arnow, JA Studios NY
Mastered by Kevorkian Mastering, Brooklyn NY
Photo by Stuart Berg
Artwork by Chanuka Hemachandra
All songs by Craig except #5 by Abbie Gardner (Gimmie Some Ribs Music) and #7 by Jessie Cavanaugh, Jon Hendricks, Vinicius de Moraes, and Antonio Carlos Jobim (Corcovado Music Corporation, Vm Enterprises, Inc. and Sociedad General de Autores de Espana S G a E)
Produced by Craig Akin
©2023 Craig Akin, BMI
www.craigakin.com

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Craig Akin New York, New York

Craig is an upright and electric bassist in NYC. He has played and recorded with countless musicians of many different styles. From jazz to pop, and blues to rock, Craig is comfortable and creative, and delivers the goods like any veteran on his instrument. Full time bassist since '97, he has played over 5,000 gigs and is on 100+ albums with award winning songwriters to world class jazz musicians. ... more

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