Watch him slap his bass! (Adam Ben Ezra)

NEXT performances in Tonhalle Düsseldorf: 11 February 2023 18 March 2023 9 June 2023 Can the double bass double as a drum kit? Can the bassist dance flamenco at the same time as strumming his bass like a guitar? Usually an impossibility. Until Adam Ben Ezra came along. In “Portrait of a FREEk” the charming, charismatic Israeli talks about being bullied at school as well as why he turned the world of the double bass upside down and started using loops to stack his bass on top of each other, while singing bin Hebrew and driving the audience mad in a wild frenzy. 0:00 Start 0:24 Introduction 1:00 The Bass Drummer 1:32 The League of Extraordinary Musicians 3:09 Music is an Escape 3:49 Discovery 5:24 We love Mistakes 7:00 So many instrum