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Yeah, I saw Brecker playing the EWI with HErbie Hancock a couple years back ... made everyone in the audience want to run out and buy one. I was checking ebay the next morning .... on another note .... I am suprised I never hear anyone hear mention Keller Williams .... arguably one of the best loop musicians out there ..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofmV7LrhpA&mode=related&search= this is part two of "juggler" ... you can see him build the initial loop in part one ... just wondering if anyone else has seen this guy ?? >From: "Tilmann Dehnhard" <tilmann@dehnhard.com> >Reply-To: "Tilmann Dehnhard" <tilmann@dehnhard.com> >To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> >Subject: Re: EWI looping by Jeff Kashiwa on youtube >Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:48:51 +0100 > >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 > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Get FREE company branded e-mail accounts and business Web site from Microsoft Office Live http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0050001411mrt/direct/01/