Nina De Heney
"I always thought that playing bass was a way for me to dance without being seen as a dancer. Maybe that is why I do so much enjoy working with dancers : to see the music I improvise rebound in the dancer's body and have the music dance back. I never really felt I fit in just one idiom, getting to a point where I rather try to embrace melodies, sounds and see how I can melt them together. I favour crooked melodies, crooked sounds . I often wonder about what happens when a melody breaks, or when a sound is shattered.I'm a big fan of what at first seems to be musical mishaps.
Quagmire
*2024 stock* "Quagmire on “Creative Sources Records”. Album was recorded by Nina de Heney (double bass), Karin Johansson (piano) and Henrik Wartel (drums). All three musicians are interesting and talented improvisers. They’re the central figures of avant-garde jazz scene. Nina de Heney is a famous bassist. The improvisations are filled with drive, passion and expression and are based on the main elements of experimental jazz innovations and the roots of avant-garde jazz. Improviser is getting on…
Bass To Bass
Bocian Records presents Bass to Bass by Nina De Heney & Slawek Janicki. Recorded at Mózg Studio, on November 29th 2019. Sound Recording: Janusz Czado, Maciej Maciejewski. Sound Mixing and mastering: Michał Kupicz. Cover Artwork: Peter Jacquemyn. Design: ZbyZiel. Executive Producer: Mózg Foundation, Bydgoszcz Poland 2020. Co-Producer & Distributor: Bocian Records. Realized thanks to the financial support of the City of Bydgoszcz.
Archipelago
Some islands stand on their own. Others group or scatter themselves in archipelagoes; some in the open sea. Archipelagoes are often volcanic. Double- bass is, at times, also a volcanic body, yet, one with an unobtrusive, relentless and massive quality. Possibly , at times, a body deep enough to contain memories of several lifetimes and invisible maps of human stories, Scattered melodies, sounds born along mid-ocean ridges or sub- liminal hot-spots. The Swiss double-bassist Nina de Heney is…