Xavier Dubois Foley is a contemporary American composer and virtuoso double bassist. He unites/mixes/fuses/uses different styles together in his works such as jazz, classical and Rhythm & blues. In The Falling Seagull he composed with the influence of the erhu, a Chinese string instrument, and with Irish folk music. I find it very inspiring (and appealing) that Foley is composing music that explores endless possibilities of the double bass as a versatile solo instrument!
Foley: The Falling Seagull
Sasha Witteveen
About the album
Tracklist
Xavier Dubois Foley
The Falling Seagull8:19
Total playing time8:19
Artists
Composers
“Double bass talent Sasha Witteveen (2003) has made an original and utterly convincing debut album. The title piece "Into the Light" is a sprawling journey from chaos to light by Dmitri Smirnov. The highlight is Xavier Dubois Foley's frenzied folk-virtuoso solo "The Falling Seagull", in which Witteveen's bass dances and sings.”
“Her playing is deeply personal, emotionally intense, technically brilliant. [...] The sound quality of this album is quintessentially TRPTK excellence—what we have come to look forward to with each new TRPTK release.”
“The Sonata is the first and most profound composition on the CD performed amazingly well, with great understanding and genuine lyricism. In all other works Sasha also has shown herself as a brilliant virtuoso and thoughtful musician.”
“To my demanding ears, Sacha is one of those gifted women who qualify for classical solo pieces, playing with little or no vibrato in her musically driven performances. [...] Opulent perfectionism and well-judged glissandos define her virtuoso non-accompanied solo style in what I consider to be the best part of her debut SACD: ‘The Falling Seagull’.”
Credits
| Genre | Contemporary |
| Instrumentation | Solo |
| Release date | May 10, 2024 |