From the moment he held the instrument in his hands at age 16, the future of the double bass was destined for change. In a lightning bolt of insight, Renaud Garcia-Fons saw the possibility to explore all the music that interested him—classical, jazz, Persian, Indian, Mediterranean, South American—forms from the world over. Driven by new ideas and born with the talent to translate them into compositions, he had to reinvent the way it was played. The result is an utterly new sound, an amalgam of double bass, cello, violin, guitar, lute, oud, and more, exceeding any conventional idea of creating music with the double bass.