Actually, he throws in a little TB at 1:16 and thereafter. But listen to those double stops!! This guy really was a master. He's playing a high A harp here:
Yeah, Igor was one of the great. It's less the tone that amazes me but the feeling he's playing it with. Shows IMO how little tone really has to do with it - it's again just the mean to an end.
His interpretation of 'Let it be' is one of my YT all time favorites.
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I've been trying t o do some semblance of "Yalla Magnun" since I first heard that vid. I've got parts of it, but Igor does some stuff that just seems physically impossible! At least impossible for me... And it's THAT stuff that makes the song great. He was a true great and he went before his time. ---------- ------------------ The magnificent YouTube channel of the internet user known as "isaacullah"
Igor was a Suzuki endorser and actually he played mostly that brand. However he had strong sympathy with Seydel and would support them whenever possible. Kept playing at the Suzuki booth though...
Sandy 88, I remember a conversation with a guy once who was in Egypt for whatever it is people go to Egypt for. He said he was staying at this hotel and Igor Flach shows up for whatever reason and hangs around for a few days. He asked him about his vibrato. Igor told him that he approached the harmonica as if he were yodeling, which made perfect sense to me. There's only a handful of players I can recognize by harmonica voiceprint alone, Igor is one of them. Igor grew up in the old DDR, he makes me wonder about what was going on behind the Iron Curtain that we were missing. He could play a mean amazing grace, too.
His Web site is down, because he is dead, but it is archived here: http://web.archive.org/web/20051222221701/www.fbeat.de/start/index.html
what have you seen (in particular) that supports that opinion Buddha? just curious... I think he sounds damn good. ---------- Kyzer's Travels Kyzer's Artwork
It was the late Igor Flach who was put down by cowardly referring to him as a spaz.
There would be many that would believe his music was by far more connecting of people than a lot of the esoteric stuff played by self proclaimed experts.
Spaaz: (noun) A word describing someone whose energy is barely in control. Outbursts, yelling and drama, and frenetic energy are part of the life of a spaaz.
That's how I've always used it. I don't see it at much of an insult. Don't sweat it Aussie. It's kinda like saying someone is REALLY high strung.
listen to "let it be" ... he's playing beautifully and then suddenly at around :34 he has a spaz moment. As a listening I've grooving along and then all of a it's like wtf was that all about? I hear moment like that in almost of of his playing.
It's like he's big battery of energy and then he gets overloaded and sparks out.
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