Re: EWI looping by Jeff Kashiwa on youtube

["Tilmann Dehnhard" <tilmann@dehnhard.com>]

completely un-loop-oriented, but if you want to check out the ewi,
you might be interested also in the following little vid of michael 
brecker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Ex1sC4xMc
(as far as i know, he uses the boomerang for looping)

all the best, tilmann

----- Original Message -----
From: "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 6:30 PM
Subject: EWI looping by Jeff Kashiwa on youtube


> 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
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
> http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast)
> http://www.myspace.com/looproom
>
>
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