J-Sin
164 posts
Jun 01, 2015
2:45 AM
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Hi folks,
I'm very excited to announce that my Balkan/Turkish/Desert -influenced world music album is finally released and available for FREE listening and download for 10$. It features all-new compositions by yours truly and captures the "arab-harp" period in my musical life that I have spent years finessing. Hope you like it!
Harmonically speaking, I'm surprised to notice - in retrospect - that the album has almost no cross harp at all. I think I use at least 1st, 3rd, 5th and 8th positions. The only cross harp I can think of is in #6 as a backing instrument for the Turkish instrument cümbüs I'm also playing. The 1st position approach featured in #9 is something at least I have never quite heard before...
Also, this is my debut as a chromatic harpist! (featured in #5, #8 and #10)
Always glad to hear comments & feedback!
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The Iceman
2466 posts
Jun 01, 2015
6:19 AM
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Most excellent. Love this type of ethnic music - especially the unison playing. Sharp.
Great tone and vibrato. Fearless as to accurate bending techniques to create the notes you need.
This and Brendan Power's Indian styling are really refreshing.
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boris_plotnikov
1056 posts
Jun 01, 2015
7:34 AM
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I like your stuff, groovy and expressive!
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Gus
24 posts
Jun 01, 2015
3:56 PM
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What a great album! The music is great and the harmonica fits in perfectly. Can you post the harp keys / positions for each one of the songs?
Thanks.
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scojo
523 posts
Jun 01, 2015
4:14 PM
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Very, very nice!
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isaacullah
3024 posts
Jun 01, 2015
4:58 PM
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Very, very nice!
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mr_so&so
915 posts
Jun 02, 2015
10:26 AM
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J-Sin, I started streaming your album to check it out and am still listening. This is one album where the harp is just part of the music rather than standing apart as a feature. I'm not sure I'd even identify it as harp right away, if I didn't know that's what is was. I see Gus said this above. Anyway it's great music. Congratulations!
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Last Edited by mr_so&so on Jun 02, 2015 10:28 AM
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Diggsblues
1839 posts
Jun 02, 2015
1:28 PM
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Really liked it !!!!!
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blingty
70 posts
Jun 02, 2015
2:45 PM
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Great stuff - I am enjoying it.
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BronzeWailer
1692 posts
Jun 02, 2015
2:59 PM
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Very cool! Definitely breaking new ground and being ultimately listenable at the same time. Congrats!
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yonderwall
91 posts
Jun 02, 2015
3:12 PM
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@J-Sin, I really enjoyed your viking metal, and I really enjoy this as well.
My only problem is that I really (really) dislike categorizing anything non-western as "world music". Yours is always just great music!
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J-Sin
166 posts
Jun 02, 2015
11:36 PM
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For Gus and anyone interested, here's the harp keys and positions. Hope this goes right, I don't have my harps with me right now so I could check...
1. Lihakypärä: Bb harp/8th position
2. Manalyt: No harp, I play the Kaossilator here
3. Fraytik: A harp/3rd.
4. Hepatoskop: Low F/5th.
5. Amerishim: chromatic
6. Hüzün: Bb/2nd (backing)
7. Cheik-r: No harp, beatboxing and vocals here
8. Bulgari Vulgaris: chromatic
9. Hamam: C/1st.
10. Aurion: chromatic
11. Öljy: A/3rd.
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wheel
363 posts
Jun 03, 2015
2:10 AM
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Very cool and inventive! I will start learning this arabic stuff from your music! Thanks for sharing!
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isaacullah
3026 posts
Jun 03, 2015
10:58 AM
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Finally had a chance to sit down and listen all the way through the album today. This is quite simply fantastic stuff. I listen to a lot of Arabic music, and this is the real deal. Even if you are not into Arabic (or "World") music, you should buy it. It will give you a really different context for how the harmonica can be used. Bravo.
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nacoran
8503 posts
Jun 03, 2015
12:12 PM
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I gave it a listen. I'll be buying the download. :)
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kudzurunner
5505 posts
Jun 03, 2015
4:48 PM
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I got to 35 seconds and said "Wow! What the HELL was that?"
Last Edited by kudzurunner on Jun 03, 2015 4:50 PM
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Rubes
946 posts
Jun 03, 2015
10:56 PM
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Fantastic work mate! Rubes
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J-Sin
167 posts
Jun 07, 2015
11:46 AM
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Thank you all for your positive comments! It's nice to hear that our music both surprises and pleases the ear. Now that our current material is on tape, it gives me freedom to experiment further and focus on new music.
@yonderwall: I too find the concept of "world music" problematic. Yet I also think it might be usable as a descriptive term if we agreed on what it means. I'm not using it to refer only to "non-western" music -- the blues is world music too. What I understand by it is music that is insipired by any local/folk/indigenous music culture and fusions it with other (perhaps more contemporary) elements. Granted, it's primarily a marketing genre and a VERY very vague one, it might also be a helpful one, if it helps people find new bands, gigs & sounds etc.
Also, I have a problem calling my music just plainly "Arabic" or "Turkish" or whatever, as I'm not a native of any these musical cultures. I'm just a visitor and enjoy visiting many cultures. Thus, "World".
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