STAR BASS
Mysterious forces beyond our understanding swathe and accelerate the universe, hidden and immeasurable—the hypothetical dark matter which cosmologists believe makes up 85 percent of the whole caboodle. Darkmatter is also the title of the newest EP by the galactically-talented bassist Eva Gardner, who as a youngster would hang out at the Griffith Observatory in Hollywood, marveling at the constellations above, and the possibilities of life to come.
The six-song EP has been orbiting Gardner’s muse for five years in sketches and riffs, and like many projects it took the pandemic to free up the time and creative space to actually complete the follow-up to her 2019 solo debut, Chasing Ghosts.
“I always had it in my mind to do another one,” she tells us. “The timing just worked out; there wasn’t any work during the lockdown, so I made work for myself.”
Gardner was also taking a music production course at the time, and set up a simple but effective home studio accordingly.
“That helped with the habit of having to write and finish songs, because I needed to have material
