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it sounds quite unbelievable, by what she says in the profile, that is working with two unsynced loop pedals, since the song parts/layers usually go tightly glued... probably one looper feeds the other ... maybe, at least, one of them it's synced to some hw sequencer/clock/arpeggiator from the synths ... dunno. 2009/8/24, jan gyn <jan_gyn@yahoo.com>: > Just saw Juana Molina Saturday 08/22 at the Yerba Buena in San Francisco. > She was awesome. Openers Amy Neuburg and the Cello ChiXtet were also > great.-jan > > --- On Sun, 8/23/09, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote: > > From: Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> > Subject: Favorite Loop Show of the Year > To: "LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> > Date: Sunday, August 23, 2009, 7:01 PM > > I thought it would be cool to have everyone write in with their > favorite live looping performance that they've seen in the past year, > perhaps with a bit of a description of the performance so that we can > turn each other onto some artists that we might not have had a chance to > see, hear or even hear of. > > I can't think of a single year in the past 15 years of digital live >looping > where I've been turned on to so many fantastically talented and really > original > loopers. It's been a fantastic year so far in our world. > > > My own favorite performance was Juana Molina up at Yoshi's in Oakland. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_3ooACrLQ4 (profile) > > > A former television comedienne and start, Juana gave up that career to > concentrate on her singer/songwriter material. > > She has really beautiful and rhythmic and simple almost naive and >childlike > songs that she sings on acoustic guitar but > she also obviously has a strong background in synthesis, modern music, > found sound so > she has a beautiful palette of custom synthesizer sounds combined with >found > sound and > unusual percussion. > > She just picks really unusual, 'out of the box' and really emotionally > evocative sounds and > plays them with exquisite rhythmic precision and arrangement sensibility. > > She also speaks broken English and is very charming and very funny in her > repartee with the crowd. > > I've seen her now three different times and even been privileged to open >for > her and hang out with her > afterwards since I first discovered her. > > She's been mentioned several times on this list before but if you haven't > checked her out, do yourself a > favor and go see her or buy her CDs. > > Definitely my favorite live looping show of the year. > > > > > -- Raul Bonell at Blogger: http://raulbonell.blogspot.com Chain Tape Collective: http://www.ct-collective.com