Night People

Five string electric bass (solo and multi-tracked)

A solo & multi-tracked bass album featuring 12 Hunter compositions as well as arrangements of Chick Corea's timeless 'Crystal Silence', Dave Holland's 'Conference of the Birds' and Steve's arrangement of 'Waltzing Matilda' for solo bass guitar. The 'Night People' album came about after 'Tall Poppies Records' boss - Belinda Webster, heard Steve play a solo bass piece during a gig with his band at Sydney's 'Harbourside Brasserie' and invited him to record for the label. The album received rave reviews from all corners of the globe (see press quotes below) and an ARIA nomination, and is one of Steve's greatest artistic successes yet.

Cat. #: TP 059

Track Listing:
1.	Night People (Hunter)	3:08
2.	Sometime in Iberia (Hunter)	4:20
3.	Aphro Moon (Hunter)	2:15
4.	Crystal Silence (Chick Corea)	3:39
5.	Conference of the Birds (Dave Holland)	5:03
6.	Revenimus (Hunter)	2:18
7.	Hindsight (Chris Abrahams)	3:49
Four Poems
8.	Watersign (Hunter)	1:33
9.	Pastoral (Hunter)	1:18
10.	Armando (Hunter)	2:20
11.	Mary (Hunter)	1:33
12.	Let's Look (Hunter)	3:48
13.	Dark Swan (Hunter)	2:35
14.	Matilda (Traditional)	1:25
15.	Ride the Camel (Hunter)	3:51
16.	Outline / Blue Mountain (Hunter)	3:08

 

"Steve's produced a wonderful album of solo bass – very artful and melodic" [Chick Corea]

"It's exciting to hear so much of the bass guitar's potential exploited to such positive ends" [Steve Swallow]

"Hunter gets points for his clean technique and good taste (no slap and tapathons here) and his interpretation of Dave Holland's 'Conference of the Birds' is especially lyrical" [Jim Roberts - Bass Player Magazine]

"If you think the idea of listening to an album made up entirely of electric bass is too horrible to contemplate, time to reconsider. Steve Hunter has produced a work of sometimes exquisite beauty that is a million miles away from a self indulgent exercise the concept might suggest." [Peter Jordan - Rolling Stone Magazine]

"Steve Hunter is a magician whose mind-boggling technique allows him to do things lesser mortals could not conceive of on his five-string instrument." [John Shand - Australian Jazz & Blues Magazine]