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Re: Frisell

on 5/11/03 9:56 PM, ernesto schnack at schnack@mailbolt.com wrote:

> On Sun, 11 May 2003 20:35:16 -0700, Mark Hamburg 
><mark_hamburg@baymoon.com>
> wrote:
>> pedal but also using a DL-4 to some extent. Reviving an age old debate 
>on
>> this list, I would classify his use of loops as more of an effect than 
>an
>> instrument or compositional tool. Their most prominent use in the show
>> were
>> as "funny sound" breaks.
> 
> Yeah, he uses them more for ambience.  However, it is still amazing how
> agile he has become at it. Those sounds just pop out of nowhere. the 
>first
> time I heard him (Blues for LA) I had no idea what was going on. I 
>thought
> he was using some sort of whammy bar, but it sounded so weird...

I'm not diminishing his work in this regard at all. He does manage to move
seamlessly to tweaking a short loop. Despite the posts a few months back
suggesting that Kim use the extended Oakland gig as an opportunity to sell
Frisell on the Echoplex, however, I'd say that the EDP doesn't really fit
his style.

Mark