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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