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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 > > >