Baker Artist Portfolios

I create every sound used to create the tracks using only my bass and effects. The series includes all original Modern-Fusion compositions, available on reverbnation.com/reginaldpayne , from my EP “All Bass Creations” as well as performance videos, reviews of gear, lessons, and more. Modern-Fusion is a super genre consisting of attributes from all genres, which allows musicians to create across multiple genres in one composition while still honoring the traditions before them of traditional, modern, and fusion genres.

Warren Wolf goes performs the piano, bass, drums and vibes all in one song

The 2nd full length album release under the Aligning Minds project; released at the end of January 2013. Recorded, produced and edited throughout 2012, it really brought to fruition the sound we'd been honing for quite a while. The concept of the album is one of genuine giving, release and extending oneself to the world through creativity, love, and purpose.

Below is a press statement that summed it up quite well:

I played with a bunch of bands in the Twentieth Century. My favorite was Bleach House, which I put together with Steve Shiltz (main guitarist), Dave Marchese (bass) and Chris Krippas (drums), and myself (songwriter, vocalist, and second guitarist), around the turn of the century in New York.  Bleach House (we were named after a laundromat in Brooklyn, NY, not a smilar-sounding B'more band) gigged a lot around lower Manhattan, and, at a couple points, went into a studio to lay down some tracks.

"Clifton '68" retells the history of the insurrection that followed the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Thursday, April 4, 1968. On Saturday the 6th arson and unrest rose up in Baltimore, and by Sunday the 7th Maryland National Guard soldiers were deployed. On that same day Governor Spiro Agnew requested federal troops to reinforce firefighters, police and Guard units. Task Force Baltimore soldiers were directed to patrol the streets with fixed bayonets, but with no bullets chambered in their weapons.

Built from scrap plywood and handrail stock, bike wheel quick releases, copper electric wire frets, and a coat stand base. Features a hand wound magnetic pick up. This instrument tied for 2nd place in Cigar Box Nation's "MacGyver 100% Recycled Guitar Building Contest".

Skipping Rocks is the second album by Baltimore's very own Old Time Folk Music revivalists Ken & Brad Kolodner. The father-son duo has teamed up yet again to release an album of traditional and original Old Time Music pushing the boundaries of what is considered "traditional." Ken Kolodner is a world-renowned hammered dulcimer player and fiddler and Brad Kolodner is a contest-winning innovative clawhammer banjo player and fiddler. Acoustic guitar legend Robin Bullock and bassist Alex Lacquement join Ken & Brad on the album.

Schwarz has been collaborating with a wide range of sound artists experimenting with different aesthetics and genres, while still keeping a recognizable sound. In recent years, Schwarz has collaborated with a number of local and national acts, making everything from radio pop music, harsh experimental tracks, high energy dance tracks and more.

CD of original music, featuring Tim Berne, Craig Taborn, and Gerald Cleaver, released by ECM records in 2010

The third guitar, a 1970 Gibson EB3 bass, is missing because it needs costly truss rod repair in the neck and head stock.