“Music is something I’ve been around my entire life from growing up with mom and pop record store owners and concert promoters to attending music school in New York City to years working as a singer-songwriter, original recording artist, and freelance bassist in Nashville…”
- Aaron Berg
As Bassist
Although I began playing piano at age six, and guitar as a songwriter in my late-teens, bass is truly my first instrument and the roots from which my music life has grown. I began on electric bass and was gigging regularly in local bars and clubs by age fifteen.
I attended a summer semester at The Berklee College Of Music at age sixteen. The following year, I was the bassist in the Manhattan School Of Music’s Brevard Summer Festival Big Band where I studied and performed in concert with jazz greats Dick Oatts, Mike Abene, Justin DiCioccio, and Bob Mintzer before ultimately enrolling at the New School University’s Jazz and Contemporary Music Program in New York City on scholarship granted on merit by bassist Reggie Workman. At The New School, I studied with Larry Grenadier (private study), Workman (ensemble), Charles Tolliver (arranging), and Cecil Bridgewater (ensemble), among many others, before embarking on many years of touring and recording as a freelance bassist with artists as far ranging as bluegrass legend Peter Rowan (upright) to multiplatinum pop rock singer Edwin McCain (electric) as well as countless other artists and bands throughout the US and abroad.
I have done countless recording sessions for artists of all genres.
Recently, locally in Nashville, I have performed with Alanna Royale (Soul/R&B), Wila Frank (Pop/Rock), Big 50 (Country), Heather Thomas Band (Pop/Rock), Sam Lewis (Soul/Americana), Case Arnold (Hip Hop), Jesse Correll (Folk/Pop), Hannah Fairlight (Rock/Pop), Sierra Ferrell (Country/Folk), among many others.
Standard Bass Equipment includes:
1969 Fender Jazz (pictured), 1972 Carvin SB60, 1982 Fender Precision (JV PB57-95), 1994 Carvin LB-75, 1997 Fender American Jazz Deluxe (John Suhr era), 1984 Custom Modified Precision/Jazz, 2021 Fender Jazz (fretless), 1979 Greco Speedway 700, Spector Legend Pro 6 (w. Aguilar DCBs/OBP3), Ampeg Portaflex-50W Tube with PF210/PF115, 1994 Romano Solano Upright (3/4), Ampeg Tube DI, Origin Effects Cali76 Compressor, Darkglass Vintage Ultra Preamp/DI, Aguilar Tone Hammer 350, 1978 Kustom 200
On stage with Alanna Royale
as Artist/Songwriter
I have recorded and released numerous albums both under my own name and as Mountainwalker.
All of my original work as a songwriter, author, and recording artist is collected at:
www.aaronbergismountainwalker.com
“Genre-fusing outsider extraordinaire continues to raise the bar with his unorthodox sound…one of the most memorable left field projects you’ll hear this year”
- Itoro Udoko, from Nashville Cream; The Nashville Scene
“A poet and a prophet on the mic. His richly-layered lyrics will feed your mind. Don’t sleep: Mountainwalker is making sure that Nashville stays on the hip-hop map.”
- Adam Bradley, Author of Book Of Rhymes, The Rap Anthology
"Folk-rap troubadour Aaron Berg long known as an introspective folk singer with the electric band gets the freedom to stretch the songs treating the listener to a different experience."
- Laura Blackley - Citizen Times - Asheville, NC
"Closing out the evening was return favorite, Mountainwalker…his sound is hard to pin down…his voice reminds me of The National’s Matt Berninger…also had a Kurt Vile storyteller aspect that was very cool. By the time they’d finished, I found myself looking up their discography…”
-No Country For New Nashville - Live at Acme Feed & Seed - Nashville
Recording as Mountainwalker - Nashville USA
as Cowriter/Producer
I have worked on all aspects of record production including: pre-planning sessions and tracks, personnel sourcing, writing horn/string arrangements (pictured above), film scoring, rehearsing bands and singers to best keys, tempos, arrangements.
I studied audio engineering at New School with Chris Hoffman and completed several semesters at the Sonic Arts Institute at The City College Of New York in Harlem, NYC.
For remote freelance recording, overdubs, and demoing cowrites, I use Protools and an Apollo x4 audio interface.
As a cowriter and producer, I deeply enjoy working with artists to imagine, write, plan, and record the best possible music. I have cowritten songs with artists including Missy Raines, Brett Newski, Mary Jennings, among many others.
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