Rocket Love, by Stephan Crump

Rocket Love

by Stephan Crump

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1.	Lament (part I) 03:42		buy track
2.	Isfahan 04:28	info	buy track
3.	What Is The 02:22		buy track
4.	Pannonica 06:32	info	buy track
5.	Groove for Stacey Abrams 04:41		buy track
6.	Whoof 03:49		buy track
7.	It Never Entered My Mind 03:41	info	buy track
8.	Enough 03:36		buy track
9.	Rocket Love 05:31	info	buy track
10.	Lament (part II) 03:30		buy track
11.	See You When 01:47		buy track

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This album is curated from work produced during a year-long, subscriber-supported solo recording series I conducted from March 2020 through March 2021, via Bandcamp. The idea was to open up the process of creating solo work, both in terms of duration (and with that, experimentation and discovery), as well as community, to have a sense that I wasn’t just alone in my home studio, but somehow also connecting throughout the process. I hadn’t intended for this to be a pandemic project. In fact, the planning had begun months before I launched the series in February of 2020, and then…you know the rest. As things turned out, aside from having a family with two boys to care for, this project and the support of my subscribers sustained me during that year, materially and spiritually. I am so grateful. And I can only hope that the music will, in turn, offer you some kind of sustenance.

“I am tempted to call Rocket Love my favorite solo bass recording of all time. At a minimum, it is the most varied and fun.” - PopMatters

“A very fine album all-around, and one that captures Crump's multifaceted aesthetic wonderfully.” - AllAboutJazz

“Crump's ability to do more with less is on full display: well-placed, deliberate notes that convey a rich emotional depth without the need for garrulity.”- AllAboutJazz

“The title track alone speaks volumes”- AllAboutJazz

“solo acoustic bass that can be a universe all of its own, that's Rocket Love” - Marlbank

“Crump generates wonderful variety in a genre that can seem ponderous or tedious in lesser hands.” - PopMatters

credits

released March 18, 2022

Stephan Crump • acoustic bass

a Papillon Sounds production
all music by Stephan Crump
© 2022 Crumbletones Music BMI
except:
Isfahan by Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington
Pannonica by Thelonious Monk
It Never Entered My Mind by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
Rocket Love by Stevie Wonder

produced, recorded, and mixed March 2020 through March 2021 by Stephan Crump at The Butler Plaza, Brooklyn, NY
mastered by Liberty Ellman at 4D Studios
portrait by Andy Friedman
photos by Stephan Crump
design by Yesim Tosuner

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discography

Rocket Love

Mar 2022
Pipestone - music from the film

Nov 2021
Outliers

Feb 2019
Rhombal

Sep 2016
Thwirl

Jan 2016
Reclamation

Apr 2010
Rosetta

Oct 2006
Open Wide

Oct 2002
Tuckahoe

Sep 2001
Poems and Other Things

Mar 1997

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