If there was ever music to evoke ‘texture’, it’s an album of music composed by Chloe Kim for six double bassists titled ‘Music For Six Double Bassists’. BASS. Half the tracks play more towards bowed notes as the foundation, while the others embrace plucked rhythms and percussiveness. In either instance, the 24 collective strings scrape, tap, bounce, groan, and writhe in songs that border on experimental, contemporary classical, jazz, and the conceptual. From the unnerving claustrophobia of ‘Movement II: Hunter’s Dream’, to the more serene ambiance and drones of ‘Movement III: Sunset Sickness’, the full spectrum of the double bass’s immense sonic range are explored in a way that feels playful, never shying away from dissonance, or the sheer novelty of having six talented bassists in the room. The atmosphere is just so THICK and the sound so unique.