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Sender: lists@slip.net Received: from ferret.slip.net (ferret.slip.net [207.171.193.6]) by hil-img-4.com puserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id OAA24682; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 14:41:51 -0400 Received: from lists by ferret.slip.net with local (Exim 1.61 #2) id 0wYyWY-0000tq-00; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 11:41:38 -0700 X-Sender: matthias@bonfim.bahianet.com.br Message-Id: <v01520d02af75b2d27753@[200.254.32.114]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 15:35:03 -0300 To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com From: matthias@bahianet.com.br (Matthias Grob) Subject: Re: Cellists / Eberhard Weber Resent-Message-ID: <"oFavY.A.Qh.uTGlz"@ferret> Resent-From: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com X-Mailing-List: <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> archive/latest/115 X-Loop: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: SmartList <lists@slip.net> Resent-To: Russell_Gorton@creatsvc-ada.ccmail.compuserve.com Resent-Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 11:41:38 -0700 >It is kind of funny- most cellists don't seem to have a very eclectic >aestetic. Tough to get them into the rock/punk/folk/loop thing. In >fact, it seems to be pretty hard to get anyone in to it... :) I just came back from Rio where I recuperated a CD called "Amber" by David Darling and Michael Johnes, made in 1987 (Narada ND-61014). I loved it then and love it again. And it shows a very subtle and "accoustic" way loops can be used on a cello. I remember Electric Light Orchestra with two Cellist running around stage. I thought it was ridiculous. Cello is too fine for many music styles. It seams to change the head of its player, too. It does not only make his hair fall out ;-) but tunes the ear, probably due to the close neck and the rich overtone spectrum that opens to higher things - nothing aproved, just an observation of mine. I got a nice letter from Eberhard Weber theses days (he found a used Plex), answered it carfully and was rewarded with his CD "Pendulum" (ECM 1518, '93). He plays his upright bass only and creates lots of loops with bass, percussive sounds, high pitch melodies, with or without arc - a whole orchestra out of one instrument, and *very* pleasant music, somewhere between Jazz, Classic and New Age! Matthias