EWI looping by Jeff Kashiwa on youtube

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

Hi guys,

I just noticed there is a video clip of Jeff Kashiwa live-looping on  
a Lexicon Jamman (?) with an EWI 4000s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUtdP3jQKUA

It's not very spectacular music style-wise, pretty traditional  
Weather Report influenced fusion jazz, but Jeff is such a good player  
and this is a great chance to see this new model of the EWI (Electric  
Wind Controller) that has good built-in synth sounds. In this video  
you can see how Jeff plays deep bass lines and high pitched "soprano  
sax" melodies almost at the same time by using the same synth patch,  
only jumping up and down in octave while overdubbing into the jamman.  
The new EWI also has good "synth-like" performing options like  
portamento and breath controlled attack- or filter cutoff envelopes  
which you don't see demonstrated in this video.

Myself I was incredibly lucky to pick up an EWI 4000s for a very  
friendly price in San Jose and since I got back and started playing  
it I think I have never used my pitch-down-octave patches at all!  
It's so cool to loop with an instrument that covers over eight  
octaves. Earlier this year I was very interested in getting a Chapman  
Stick to loop with, for the huge octave span, but my EWI has  
completely seduced me to forget about that Stick Crush ;-)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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