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completely different tones for bass; there’s three completely different styles for bass. It
was cool.

The triple bass treat: Ove is a German dude, so he has sort of a different space, culturally,
where he’s coming form, which is nice. Divinity – she’s so happenin’! She didn’t start
to play bass until she was like 18. She was a journalist student at Cal-Berkley and was
doing some poetry reading and rapping when someone gave her a bass and she could
just play this incredible groove and rap at the same time. I guess I had never worked
with a rapper who knew what they were doing and that’s not really my purview. I got to
see her work every night and the rhythms that she does, the rhymes she’s coming up
with - she’s a great bass player and is just so open. She’s a smart woman, just a sponge
to learn anything and pick up anything and plays completely different than I do with

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technique and approach. It’s great!