Apotheosis : Deviations

by Jeff Schmidt

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mickbass Epic, almost industrial sounding album. This gentleman's creativity and skill on the bass is up there with the great Michael Manring. I can offer no greater compliment. Favorite track: Apotheosis (Derision).

Goaliebob I wish I could play the bass at one millionth the talent of Jeff Favorite track: Apotheosis.

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1.	Apotheosis 02:53	info	buy track
2.	Apotheosis (Derision) 02:54	info	buy track
3.	Apotheosis (Delirium) 06:57	info	buy track
4.	Apotheosis (Carnage) 03:22	info	buy track
5.	Apotheosis (Limbo) 03:09	info	buy track
6.	Apotheosis (Adaptation) 02:16	info	buy track
7.	Russ Sitka - Apotheosis (Defenestration) 03:53	info	buy track

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Apotheosis was written in early 2006 for 5 string electric piccolo fretless bass as the finale for my first real 30 minute solo bass set.

It was among 3 or 4 solo pieces I played live, but intentionally never recorded.

I used to like the idea of having solo pieces that people could only hear at my shows. Apotheosis was always the closer.

Of course, just because I didn't want to record Apotheosis in the studio, didn't stop video of it's live performance from being recorded. Eventually I posted a video from a live performance on YouTube. youtu.be/TF4sJHBIYEo

To my dismay, it became the most viewed Jeff Schmidt Solo Bass video, dwarfing the views received by what I considered to be my more musically substantive pieces. There's no accounting for taste on You Tube. Or maybe there is. Anyway - I continued to play the piece live but never really seriously thought of recording it. Until recently.

I didn't want to just release it as a single. But the idea of giving it the re-mix treatment sounded like a cool way to bring new life to the piece and round out a nice little EP.

And, viola! Here it is - Apotheosis : Deviations featuring a fresh new recording of the solo bass version - and 5 new views of the piece from me, and one from Russ Sitka.

This has been terrific process for me. First - just getting back in touch with the original solo version which I haven't played for a few years. And then re-examining the piece from different angles in the remix process.

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released September 1, 2012

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tracks 1-6: jeff schmidt

track 7: russ sitka

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