The simple combination of Baldwin's bass and singing is pure, direct, and timeless.
Today, when most of the so-called musical innovators simply offer contemporary takes on already proven and accepted movements in music (neo-psychedelia, nth-wave garage bands...) Portsmouth, New Hampshire's Nat Baldwin is a true original. Baldwin is an upright bass player and a singer, but he takes both of those things to their limit, and has perfected a sound that he can call entirely his own.
Trained under free jazz master Anthony Braxton, Nat is involved with Dirty Projectors and his song "Only In My...