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John von Seggern

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John von Seggern is a bassist, producer and DJ, relocated to Southern California after a decade spent performing and recording in Asia (Tokyo and Hong Kong) with some of the region's most influential artists. John von now lives in Los Angeles, where he has been playing bass at some of the city's top jazz clubs and doing electronic sound design for film projects.

In 2010, he produced a new album of electronic jazz, "Extreme Measures", a collaboration with West Coast musical innovators John Beasley, Steve Tavaglione, Gary Novak, and Walt Fowler under the band name Simplexity. He also contributed sound design effects and processing to Thomas Newman's Oscar-nominated soundtrack of the Pixar film WALL-E, as well as co-writing a live band score for forthcoming documentary "A Million Spokes". ... von Seggern first started playing music while a young student growing up in Nebraska, playing cello in the school orchestra. Turning to electric and then upright bass as a teenager, he got his first pro gigs in country bands playing street parties in small Midwestern prairie towns.

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Bass Extraordinaire: John von Seggern / Bruno Raberg / Christopher Hale

Read "Bass Extraordinaire: John von Seggern / Bruno Raberg / Christopher Hale" reviewed by Doug Collette


In both its acoustic and electric form, the bass is too often overlooked in the context of musical performances both live and in studio. Yet it is this instrument that arguably confronts the greatest challenge of all in navigating arrangements and musicianship: specifically, to establish and maintain a middle ground of melody and rhythm that simultaneously ...

Album

Seeing Through Sound: Pentimento Volume Two

Label: Ndeya
Released: 2020
Track listing: Fearless; Moons Of Titan; Unknown Wish: Delicado; Reykjavik; Cool Down Coda; Lunar; Timeless.

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Article: Album Review

Jon Hassell: Seeing Through Sound: Pentimento Volume Two

Read "Seeing Through Sound: Pentimento Volume Two" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Visionary trumpeter-composer Jon Hassell presents another gift from his late career. The third release on his own Ndeya label, it follows the re-release of his debut album Vernal Equinox (Ndeya, 2020) and is a sequel to Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One) (Ndeya, 2018). The structure is a bit different, still eight tracks, but organized as ...


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