HISTORY
In the summer of 2018, I was lucky to be visiting a friends in Europe. City of Regensburg, Germany. Beauty, simplicity, of course, cleanliness and some kind of calm, free atmosphere of this small Bavarian town conquered my heart and body – I had a better rest than in a resort. This is how, I thought, people should live – in harmony with themselves, nature and history… It was there, after a ten-year break in bass guitar practice, that I decided to return to my favorite work. On August 22, my 50th birthday, my friend and I went to Thomann and bought me a bass guitar. It was in Regensburg that the idea of the BASS&BUS project was born as a combination of music and travel. Upon returning home, I planned to find like-minded people, to buy a motorhome and to go to play my music on the streets and in clubs of Europe, and at the same time to see the world. But alas, this idea-dream is not destined to come true yet, so I continue to work on it. I write music whenever possible. So… welcome!
Since the history of the “BASS&BUS” project began in 2018, I will have to go back and restore the events and music that were associated with this project. I did not realize yet that my inner return home had begun since August 2018. But the music was already talking about it… It took the Universe three whole years to make me doing it physically, escaping from the clutches of the beautiful St. Petersburg city and moving to Kharkіv city, Ukraine.
For now….
In April 2019, I recorded one part of the bass guitar with a drum sample at an old Korg port studio and sent it to a friend in Kharkіv to listen. Unexpectedly and quite quickly, he returned it to me, but with guitars and updated drums. I listened and thought … and from this maybe something will turn out.
We asked another friend to record the saxophone. Then a familiar musician from St. Petersburg recorded the cello. And another familiar musician from Kharkiv, who then worked on a ship and was quarantined off the coast of Scotland, recorded the harmonica on the Zoom recorder.
And so, in a long correspondence and arrangement samples, the first track was born:
“Always Come Home”
I remember that the name came instantly as soon as the work on the track ended.
May 2019
BASS&BUS – Always come back home.
Eduard Novoseltsev – bass guitar, vocals.
Alexey Proskurnin – guitar, programming, mixing, mastering
Sergey Savenko – tenor saxophone, keyboards.
Denis Moroz – harmonica
Vyacheslav Salikov – cello