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Wide Angle Vision Foundation

Announces the CD

"Woot Camp Awakening"

A volunteer effort to support Victor

Wooten's Bass/Nature Camps.

View the press release regarding the CD.

Contributors listed below donated

the music on this CD.  Click on their names to learn about their songs and to hear sound clips.

Special Bonus Track:

Little Stevie Ray Charles Mingus - Live.

A recording of an improvisational performance by Victor Wooten, Steve Bailey & RoyEl

"Future Man" Wooten at the 2000 Bass Camp.

Click here to listen to 2 minutes of an 11 minute jam.

Bo Bradley

Scott Brady

James Cook

Roma Long

Maria "Pete" Durgan

Willie Dye

Ian Goldberg

Brian Kobayakawa

David Partrick

Alana Rocklin

Kevin Singleton

John Yates

Denise-Pilar Yver

 

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Bo Bradley:   "114.2"  Click here to listen

I originally came up with the groove experimenting with drop d tuning and the parallel octaves it provides on the e and d Strings respectfully.  Over the years I started striking the octaves with my index and ring fingers to simulate an 8 string bass sound.  I'm am now playing the tune with my new project MORPHIC RESONANCE. Most of our music is born of improvisation.  We then go back and begin arranging the parts that really speak to us.  The drum programming on the tune was done with Acid software by Michael Talley.  Our goal was to get as close to a realistic drum sound as possible.  Acid is awesome software.  Check it out if you haven't already.   Looking forward to seeing all your smiling faces at BNC alumni camp.  Thanks Vic and Holly, you and the rest of the BNC tribe changed my life in a big way.

This piece is an original score that I've been growing for years. . . I decided to adapt this theme into a Bass Camp visual that hopefully all campers will relate. It attempts to capture that moment when we woke from our tents/cabins to the mysterious moose call drifting from the lodge haze, and getting up for a moon walk at daybreak to the hot springs shelter.  I remember seeing things move across the field almost like a mirage as others also found their way around. . .  slowly.  I was at that moment every morning that I tried to enforce my "wide angle vision" perspective, giving it a fresh start by noticing which birds were in the trees, what stones were sitting on the gravel road, what sounds were in front of me and hundreds of yards away as I walked to the water shelter.  Later that morning only after joining a very inspired group for some soulful stretching, and then followed by a five star breakfast, did I feel the urge to actually discuss the experience.  It was great.   Where else in the world could you have such a vivid discussion about waking up and starting your day! The funny thing is.. that I remember the mornings like it just happened!I I thought those moments of inner peace which embraced me each morning - with no words even necessary in the scenes, deserved their own little theme.  It truly was an awakening for me!

James Cook:   "Something Funky Happenin'" Click here to listen     top

I submitted this particular song because it seemed to be a nice upbeat song that lyrically is simple and conveys a very happy vibe about music and playing.

Maria "Pete" Durgan:  "Song for Doug"  Click here to listen     top

Recorded and mixed by: 

Dan Grove

I had the pleasure of knowing Doug Yancey, a singer I met at various blues jams around town.  He was a happy, fun loving guy; and he became a vocal mentor for me and many others.  One day, he woke up, went to the kitchen and died of a heart attack.   This song wrote itself a couple of days after he passed.  Whenever I perform it, I feel like Doug is there going "Yea, girl, yea, go on, sing it. . . "   The song kick-started my songwriting, and I used the first verse to introduce myself at BNC 2000.  

Willie Dye:   "Curiosity"   Click here to listen     top

Players: 

Written/Arranged by: 

Recorded at:  

Southwest Recording, Roanoke, VA.

This song started out as just an exercise in the thumb technique. After camp and the discussions of "I can see it done so I know it can be done." Also when Adam Nitti was in the process of working with a new technique said, "now to make it musical" and Boom there it was. I took those words of wisdom and created a melody. Together with the perfect vocal accompaniment and the rest of the Hats vibe curiosity was born.  I took from camp confidence, inspiration, and the comfort in knowing that I can be myself. I have a lot to see and a lot to say!!!

Brian Kobayakawa:   "Road to California  Click here to listen     top

This tune is the first one we recorded on the first day we played together as a quartet. It later became the first track on a demo that landed us a grant from the federal government of Canada to record, release and promote our first album of original music, due out by this summer.

Roma Long:  "Father, Son"  Click here to listen     top

David Partrick:  "See Sharp, Be Natural"  Click here to listen      top

This song was inspired by, and attempts to capture, my experience at
Bass/Nature Camp.  I used elements of the camp; the cooing of a dove and
other birdsongs, a drum beat heard from a distance, and the two basses I
took to camp.  The chord progression is C#m,  B or "See Sharp, Be Natural"!

Denise-Pilar Yver:   "Make My Dreams Real"  Click here to listen   top

Recorded &  

produced by: 

Alana Rocklin:   "Mistursur"    Click here to listen   top  

Engineered, produced, 

and mixed by: 

Brad Bowden for New Polyphony Music (ASCAP)  

Kevin Singleton: "I'll Lead You Back"  Click here to listen      top

I wrote this song for a friend of mine who was going through a tough time. I had the song played on the radio for her on her birthday. I had help on this song from 3 very talented and good friends of mine. Paul Warner helped me out with what I wanted to express lyrically. The "wonder kid" Mike Dowling came in last minute to play Drums, Electric Guitars, and Backup Vocals. All of this was recorded and engineered by Kevin Smith at Six + 1 Studios in Florence, SC. I played Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Lead Vocals, and Keyboard.                                         

John Yates:  "My Name Is"   Click here to listen     top

Recorded,

engineered   

and mixed at:  

Remember standing in front of everybody and being asked to "play our name" with our bass? Boy, I had stagefright, was feeling underskilled and unprepared, and knew I wasn’t up to everybody else’s speed. I racked my brain for what to play.

What happened is, I fell back on my comfy "cello." This is what I call my hammer notes swelled with the volume control. Did some oohs, aahs and wahs, got back in line and called it a night. Whew!

In developing "My Name is…" I drew from that experience, and traced and reflected three stages of my personal development and growth during Bass/Nature Camp. I did this by presenting a melodic theme/name three times. First you’ll hear a minor cello, playing in an uncertain way in uncertain surroundings. Next, a more confident theme appears within a freer, energetic passage. Finally, the theme releases with a major, happy, fly to the sky joy. If you can hear the differences from beginning to end, you may feel how BNC affected me.

I want to thank Kelly Gravely and Alan Watson, two generous gentlemen and superb players, who have helped this skeered cat sound better than he is.

We'd like to thank the following people and groups who have supported us in the effort to get the word out about the CD: