After having played the bass for 25 years in the most diverse contexts imaginable, I have arrived at the point, where I feel, I have just opened the door to the way of finding my own "sound", that trademark recognisability, sometimes first-name only privilege, like Wayne or Herbie, Miles or Mingus. It will be another 25 years to establish it, but it feels like a tremendous privilege to have arrived at the vision for it. My new record "solo-solo bass" is the ultimate challenge for bassplayers, the one-track/one bass challenge, trying to stay interesting for the course of one CD's length of music or a whole evening of a live-concert. Having realised, that I cannot do that all alone, I have asked fellow bassplayers to write pieces for me, which I will also perform. Among them are Joelle Léandre, Mark Dresser, Alexandre Tannous, Mark Helias and Marcel Khalife. I have done many solo-concerts since 10 years all over the world with the help of playback-CD's and loopdevices, but with this new CD comes a new chapter for me and hopefully for the audience as well. Voilá, naked bass it is.
Peter Herbert, Paris, July 2005
