Embrace Denial (1996)

The distorted bass is the bull in the china shop because the original is so wispy and breathy--the initial feeling I got from the lyrics when I began to write the music. As primarily a jazz player--or I played a lot of jazz in the past, the music is very harmonic and vertical with large extended chords. But the bass reduces it to the roots and to the chords stripped of their extensions. Embracing denial is an escape from certainty, so the edgy approach also fits.