Mo Foster | Bass Themes

Mo Foster is one of the most prolific session musicians within the music biz in the UK.
Having played on a whopping 350 albums and with a style that has embraced everything from jazz to rock to pop, it’s little wonder that in the process, he rubbed shoulders with the good and the great.

Bass Themes is his sixth solo album made up of (instrumental) film and TV production music he recorded between 1983 and 2009.

The album’s 30 (!) tracks offer a repertoire ranging from the laid-back exotic (‘Afternoon In Kyoto’) to the meditative ‘Staring Into The Abyss’, from the funk-infused ‘Deep Red’ to the slightly more rocky ‘Good Cop, Bad Cop’. The tracks are perfect for easy listening or great in the car stereo while driving along the motorway. However, since all thirty tracks are instrumental, things border a bit on the repetitive at times.
Only exception is the closing number ‘The Low Down’ – a track like no other on the album. It’s like a strange Bavarian oompah-style waltz with deep sounding baritone horn and trumpet arrangements (the bass has got to be somewhere…). Hilarious!

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