your question:

08/19/2023 Ev

Hello Trevor. Hope you doing good. Recently listened to Zorn Dreamers last album. Could you please let know was it you fender you used for record or some other instrument? All this bass lines written by Zorn from start to an end or he gave you melody and the rest was written by you? Would be really interesting to read some details about recordings you did, the same way you posted about bungle records here. Maybe some day you may consider a biography.. One more thing - last trio convulsant record is amazing. Do you plan to issue it on vinyl anytime soon? What do you think about all vinyl revival past years? Thanks for everything. All the best.

my answer:

I’m pretty sure I used my Fender Pbass for those Dreamers recordings. Sometimes there are written bass lines (especially the ostinatos that you hear), other times there might just be a “lead sheet”, in other words, a chord progression and melody. Zorn is very particular for getting the right groove for those pieces so even if I come up with something on the spot he may want to tweak it a bit.
No plans to reissue trio-convulsant on vinyl at the moment. I find the vinyl revival bizarre, even more so because I was there when it went out of style and most of my favorite record shops closed. Vinyl doesn’t sound as good as CDs and most new music these days is created on digital equipment which surpasses vinyl’s capability of reproducing it. I lamented the demise of vinyl in the late ‘90s and I still buy used vinyl (usually obscure thrift store finds), but to me putting out new music on vinyl seems to be more about the physicality of it including the artwork, which is fine. But from an audiophile’s standpoint is a step backwards.