ABOUT
Neil Richter is a Stockholm-based bass player, performance composer, arranger, and photographer with a love for shaping atmosphere as much as groove. Moving between double bass, electric bass, and bass synth, he enjoys blurring genre lines and building sonic worlds that feel both grounded and playful.
His musical path began at the piano and wandered through jazz, orchestral music, and international stages before settling into a broad artistic practice spanning classical, jazz, funk, hip-hop, rock, fusion, and electronic music. Along the way, he’s collaborated with a wide range of artist.
Currently completing his Master’s of Performance at the Royal Academy of Music (KMH) in Stockholm, Neil’s degree project Phantasmagoria brings together composition and performance with a focus on co-creation and interplay.
Projects
Phantasmagoria
The music moves seamlessly between the composed and the improvised, with a deep sense of co-creation.
Phantasmagoria is a quartet consisting of bass, drums, guitar and piano. The music is an ever-changing collection of sonic gestures, seen or heard. The project focuses on compositions that explore the boundaries of interplay, improvisation and interaction through empathic responsiveness. By "de-centering" themselves from their own musical perspectives, the musicians enter a heightened state that allows each individual voice to dare to take creative risks, where each musician cultivates a mutual responsiveness.
Svante Qvennerstedt - Guitar
Johann Fritsche - piano
Felix Kling - Drums
Neil Richter - Bass
Phantasmagoria
The music moves seamlessly between the composed and the improvised, with a deep sense of co-creation.
Phantasmagoria is a quartet consisting of bass, drums, guitar and piano. The music is an ever-changing collection of sonic gestures, seen or heard. The project focuses on compositions that explore the boundaries of interplay, improvisation and interaction through empathic responsiveness. By "de-centering" themselves from their own musical perspectives, the musicians enter a heightened state that allows each individual voice to dare to take creative risks, where each musician cultivates a mutual responsiveness.
Svante Qvennerstedt - Guitar
Johann Fritsche - piano
Felix Kling - Drums
Neil Richter - Bass
Tres&
Three musicians from different nationalities and backgrounds come together, each with their own unique experience and style. They explore the edges of music individually yet play as one organism. Tres& invites audiences on a journey through time and space, reflecting their diverse cultures and musical roots. They reinterpret existing jazz tunes, explore new sounds, and share their own compositions. The music is open, full of individuality, yet deeply collaborative.
Gabriel Gutierrez - Piano
Pablo Santamaria Navarro - Drums
Neil Richter -Bass
Tres&
Three musicians from different nationalities and backgrounds come together, each with their own unique experience and style. They explore the edges of music individually yet play as one organism. Tres& invites audiences on a journey through time and space, reflecting their diverse cultures and musical roots. They reinterpret existing jazz tunes, explore new sounds, and share their own compositions. The music is open, full of individuality, yet deeply collaborative.
Gabriel Gutierrez - Piano
Pablo Santamaria Navarro - Drums
Neil Richter -Bass
Zielkes Zeltlager
Ein Zeltlager. Magischer Ort. Kleine große Freiheit außerhalb des Gewohnten, zurückgeworfen auf wenige Utensilien, ein paar Basics und sich selbst. Ort für Improvisation. Der vorher unscheinbare Gaskocher liefert plötzlich ungeahnte Leckerbissen und entwickelt sich zum Helden der Reise. Man hat Spaß am Draußensein, Spaß am sich Ausprobieren, Spaß an gemeinschaftlicher Interaktion. Ein solches Zeltlager beschreibt am besten das musikalische Ideal hinter den lyrischen Modern-Jazz Stücken von Jonathan Zielke.
Jonathan Zielke - Guitar
Hannes Kempa - Tenor Saxophone
Valentin Steinle - Drums
Neil Richter - Bass
Zielkes Zeltlager
Ein Zeltlager. Magischer Ort. Kleine große Freiheit außerhalb des Gewohnten, zurückgeworfen auf wenige Utensilien, ein paar Basics und sich selbst. Ort für Improvisation. Der vorher unscheinbare Gaskocher liefert plötzlich ungeahnte Leckerbissen und entwickelt sich zum Helden der Reise. Man hat Spaß am Draußensein, Spaß am sich Ausprobieren, Spaß an gemeinschaftlicher Interaktion. Ein solches Zeltlager beschreibt am besten das musikalische Ideal hinter den lyrischen Modern-Jazz Stücken von Jonathan Zielke.
Jonathan Zielke - Guitar
Hannes Kempa - Tenor Saxophone
Valentin Steinle - Drums
Neil Richter - Bass
Myrslok
Be surprised by an attentive Myrslok, awakened by a melody, a rhythm, a memory — the music is shaped in the moment. Original pieces drift into improvisation, ideas come and go, sometimes never to return. A Myrslok is never afraid of being perceived as “strange”; honestly, that’s her thing. What she truly fears is the smallest departure from her own impulse. With every concert, Myrslok walks into unknown terrain. Sometimes gentle. Sometimes frenetic. Sometimes strange
Tom Gabrielsson - Saxophone
Daniel Garthon - Saxophone
Simon Berggren - Piano
Amadeus Wedberg - Drums
Neil Richter - Bass
Myrslok
Be surprised by an attentive Myrslok, awakened by a melody, a rhythm, a memory — the music is shaped in the moment. Original pieces drift into improvisation, ideas come and go, sometimes never to return. A Myrslok is never afraid of being perceived as “strange”; honestly, that’s her thing. What she truly fears is the smallest departure from her own impulse. With every concert, Myrslok walks into unknown terrain. Sometimes gentle. Sometimes frenetic. Sometimes strange.
Tom Gabrielsson - Saxophone
Daniel Garthon - Saxophone
Simon Berggren - Piano
Amadeus Wedberg - Drums
Neil Richter - Bass