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Uros Spasojevic

Uroš Spasojević, bassist and composer, was born in 1985 in the city of Valjevo, Republic of Serbia. Until now, he has released five albums of his original compositions: "Portrait in Bass" (2014), "Story on Bass" (2015) that received high praises in the United States of America, most prominently, in the reviews of a music journalist and a writer Walter Kolosky and the music critics of a leading world fusion music brand and record label "Abstractlogix" who graded this album 4.5 out of 5 stars. Album "Third View" (2016) featured special guests Scott Kinsey, who was mixing and mastering engineer, saxophonist Bob Reynolds and guitarist Nir Felder. In 2016, this album was included in the top 5 most interesting Serbian jazz records, as selected by the editor of broadcasting station Radio Novi Sad, and in the top 15 albums recommended by the owner of the American record label Moonjune Records. His fourth album, Expressions (2017) is a solo bass project. Uroš’s fifth album "V", recorded in cooperation with a pianist Bojan Marjanović, was published in December 2018 by the Norwegian record label "Amp Music & Records". Uroš is committed to the idea that the bass guitar can be a leading melodic and solo instrument capable of viable polyphony and improvisational logic that includes very frequent experiments using effects. His basic idea is to create unconventional approach to bass playing that provides a different light on the instrument’s interesting and diverse sounds. Yet, the emphasis of this concept and music is on melody, which is still the most important aspect of all.

Uros Spasojevic: Winter Tales

Read "Winter Tales" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
June 18, 2020

On his previous release, Serbian electric bass guitarist Uros Spasojevic presented a set of solos and duets with pianist Bojan Marjanovic on V (Amp Music & Records, 2018). Here he uses his 5-string tenor bass with extensive electronic processing in real time to create a suite of soundscapes. The instrument is capable of traditional bass playing, but that is not the point of this music. In fact, it would be easy to listen to it without realizing that it is ...

Album Review

Uros Spasojevic/Bojan Marjanovic: V

by Mark Sullivan
December 23, 2018

Serbian electric bass guitarist Uros Spasojevic presents an intimate set of solos and duets with pianist Bojan Marjanovic. He plays an extended range instrument, frequently employing an approach more like a guitarist than a bassist--in terms of both timbre and register. Opener “North" is the first of three unaccompanied bass pieces. Beginning with volume-pedal swelled chords which are then looped, Spasojevic adds a spare, echoing solo part. In contrast “Senok" features Marjanovic's piano with a lyrical unaccompanied opening, ...

"Uros is proving himself to be a skilled improviser and writer. It is clear that his music is reflective, searching, and honest.

" ...Regardless of the story being told throughout Story on Bass, Spasojevic is able to sing melodies through his instrument like very few bass players can. Whether he is on his own, or using drums and piano to cover rhythm and harmony, Spasojevic’s sense of melody is stunning."

Abstractlogix stuff

"... it is Spasojevic’s solo forays that give evidence to something quite different. His melodies are deep and moving and he obtains unique sounds through the use of many special effects mustered from his strings. These aren’t dorky sound-effects pulled-off for the purposes of showing off. Rather, they are used to create sound fields of emotion. You need to stop what you are doing to pay close attention. "