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RE: Frisell in the UK...



J. Miranda V. pointed out

>Oh, you saw Frisell too...
>
>I know another Englishman who went to see Frisell.  He was really 
>impressed.
>He's number 22 towards the middle of the page, here:
>http://www.music.columbia.edu/%7Ececenter/mhl21/ct/ct_75/ct_75.html
>

I guess that would be me, and so in response to Steve Lawson's question:
>  |
>  | Did anyone else go and see him play in London on Sunday night? What an
>  | unbelieveable evening's music, and some serious DL4 useage too...
>  |


Yes I did, and it was a great evening. As with his solo shows here back
in March, (which BTW was the gig that inspired the track mentioned
above) the DL4 certainly seems to be taking centre stage in Bill's
set-up, although he's be no means abandoned the Digitech pedal either.
He seemed to be using one of the real-time backwards settings on the DL4
at one point and reversing loops too, but I was near the back so I'm
going from what I heard rather than what little I could see. Great
mixture of material from fuzz thrash through to acoustic delicacy. Crazy
bass and drums too from Tony Scherr and Kenny Wooleson.

For further evidence of my long term interest in Mr Frisell's oeuvre,
please see:
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Delta/2495/bill_frz.htm

On Monday, I saw the Finnish accordion player Kimmo Pohjonen, who make
quite extensive use of loops and delays and makes a pretty intriguing
racket! Interesting use of lighting and visuals, too, though perhaps
nothing ground breaking. Should be on Jools Holland's Later (UK BBC2)
this weekend or next, apparently.

And London - well I've just moved to Wales, that's all you need to know
about living and working in London(!) No - its fine til you need to buy
a house somewhere close to a good school and then you sunk (must be all
this rain)

Cheers

David
<http://www.davidcooperorton.co.uk>