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Post by MartinS on Jan 7, 2017 23:06:30 GMT
Last month, in a moment of unusual Scottish weakness, I invested 99p for three months of Spotify (minus the ads). I have to say it's the best 99p I've spent for a long time, and after the offer finishes I'm going to pay the tenner a month to keep it going because I'm enjoying it that much. Cats are just going to have to feed themselves.
I found, via the 'related artists' tab this guy called Ale Carr who plays a cittern, and he has (in today's common youth parlance) literally blown my mind. He spent a year studying with Roger Tallroth, so I guess that would help, and then a few years studying swedish fiddle styles at music college.
I've been listening to an album called Holmgang he recorded with Esko Jarvela from Finland who plays a five string fiddle.
The playing is just sublimely inventive, and I am therefore moved to share it with y'all.
Here's a live version of a tune called Kollberg and Pringar from the tube:
As I sit here in the midst of my new year lurgy, I raise a hot toddy to the skills of someone so far beyond my own level that I feel I'm back at the first faltering steps of the Eminor chord again, and who has opened the doors to a new way of playing.
(I may have a slight fever...)
m.
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Post by martinrowe on Jan 8, 2017 17:38:58 GMT
******* Marvellous thanks for sharing this. that tone on the wound strings well, all of it really. Martin
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2017 11:14:10 GMT
Yes, absolute love Ale Carr. Marvellous instrument he plays as well.
Anyone know if he is related to Ian Carr?
Rob
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