Nomad, by Karl Clews

Nomad

by Karl Clews

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Full-colour, gloss gatefold card case, with artwork by Oskar Boral, Chaim Holtjer and Karl Clews

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Consisting of my three first albums of solo-bass and bass-led original material - Dissident, Navigator, and Nomad.
All three CDs come in gloss full colour card wallets (Nomad is a gatefold wallet).

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Elements Vol.2: Classic TV Themes, Samurai, Nomad, Speaking In Tongues, Roots, Navigator, Elements Vol.1: Jazz Funk Fusion Classics, Dissident, and 2 more. , and , .

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1.	Enforcer 02:48		buy track
2.	Speaking In Tongues 04:06	info	buy track
3.	Evangeline 04:21		buy track
4.	An Eye For An Eye 03:15		buy track
5.	Interlude: Thalassa 01:47		buy track
6.	Time And The River 04:24		buy track
7.	In Search Of Submarines 04:48		buy track
8.	Spartan 03:44		buy track
9.	Magnificence & Magnanimity 04:58		buy track
10.	Interlude: Flying West 01:46		buy track
11.	Lacuna 03:38		buy track
12.	Peloton 05:08		buy track
13.	Sunburn 02:59		buy track
14.	Santo Domingo 03:44		buy track
15.	Interlude: By The Light Of Other Stars 01:02		buy track
16.	The Last Days Of Reason 05:12		buy track
17.	We Are Not As We Were 02:16		buy track
18.	Warbaby 02:56		buy track
19.	Zhurba (Slavic Lament) 02:48		buy track
20.	Outro: Exodus 00:58		buy track

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Following Dissident and Navigator, Nomad is the concluding instalment of my trilogy of bass solo and bass-led albums.
A concept album of sorts, the songs are arranged into four thematic 'suites', linked by interludes, depicting the journey taken by a traveler through life. Beginning in Telluria, a familiar landscape of cities and towns, of culture and philosophy, our intrepid nomad heads out to Oceanea, a seascape of uncertainty, fluidity and hidden dangers as he tries to determine his direction in the world. From there, he alights in Empyrea, a lofty land of dreams and ambition, of achievement and invention. But still the nomad moves on, in his quest to experience all there is to experience in life, and finds the end of his journey, if not his life itself, in the dark place that is Eschatonia, a landscape of fear, destruction, confusion and death.

credits

released November 4, 2022

Karl Clews - bass, piccolo bass, tenor bass, programming, percussion
Michael Barkley - trumpet & flugelhorn on tracks 1, 2 & 6
Bertrand Huvé - saxophone on tracks 2, 9, 11 & 16
Enda Dempsey - guitar on track 4
Ciaran Storey - guitar on track 7
Richie Dittrich - drums on tracks 4, 9 & 15

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Karl Clews Galway, Ireland

Karl employs a variety of techniques including slap, two-handed tapping and classical guitar-style thumb- and fingerpicking, to combine melody, chords and bassline in a single performance, effectively making his bass guitar a self-accompanying instrument, without the need for other instruments. ... more

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