Re: [Harp-L] Filip Jers - Spiro - Solo CD released

[Filip Jers <filip.jers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks your very nice words Icemanle!

Rick, Thanks!
I am not shure i can explain in words. Basically its many micro-bends, in various speed and pitch and with a lof of control. I think Howard Levy does the same vibrato, at least sort of. 

I think I have it from playing cello as a kid, that nice romantic velving sound, to make the vibrato sound beautiful and to make it sing. 
On cello the technique is moving the arm/wrist and keeping the fingerpoint on the same spot, mostly leaning/rubbing it back and forth. 
I guess you can think the same about harmonica, that I have the note under control with my airstream, then I use the throat and tongue muscles to move around it. 

Hope that helps,

/ Filip Jers





24 maj 2011 kl. 09.28 skrev Rick Dempster:

> Flip;
>       That's one beautiful vibrato you have there. Would you mind
> explaining how you do it?
> Thanks,
> Rick Dempster
> 
>>>> The Iceman <icemanle@xxxxxxx> 23/05/2011 1:25 >>>
> beautiful, melodic, raunchy, split intervals, rhythmic chugging, soft,
> fast, vibrato, OB, bending to pitch, bluesy, and original are a few of
> the adverbs I found to describe this music.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Filip Jers <filip.jers@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sat, May 21, 2011 11:42 pm
> Subject: [Harp-L] Filip Jers - Spiro - Solo CD released
> 
> 
> Hello Music Lovers !
> 
> I am very happy and proud to announce that my first soloCD is released.
> It was 
> released 4th of may in Stockholm, Sweden. 
> It has been getting great reviews in the Swedish newspaper and I have
> started to 
> sell it all over Sweden, and also Brazil, Germany and France.
> ---
> Filip Jers – Spiro
> 
> World Harmonica Champion Filip Jers releases his whished-for
> solodebut-CD, that 
> he calls "Spiro". "Spiro" means "to breathe" in latin. On his solodebut
> Filip 
> Jers breathes notes out of his harmonica. He also plays guitar,
> accordion and 
> jawharp on the CD. All thirteen songs are composed by Filip Jers with 
> inspiration from the purple notes of jazz, the blue of the blues and
> the green 
> notes of folkmusic. 
> The CD is a musical journey with focus on the soulfull sound of the
> harmonica 
> and its unique possibilites in the wonderful world of music.
> 
> Spring 2011 Filip graduated with a masterdegree in music from the Royal
> Academy 
> of Music in Stockholm, as the first harmonica player ever.
> ------
> Brendan Power says 
> 
> "I'm enjoying your CD :) Refreshing in its directness and simplicity,
> but
> with intriguing arrangements and varied styles. Tracks or sounds that
> stood
> out to me were The Basement, the counterpoint on Follow Me, the cool
> dissonance on Improvisation 11, the swing on Ostra Promenaden."
> 
> For two free streaming songs, come to
> 
> http://soundcloud.com/filipjers 
> 
> To see my perform Blues 2002 from the releaseconcert, check here
> 
> http://youtu.be/_yThTom3V_s 
> 
> To buy the CD via PayPal (shipping worldwide), come to
> 
> www.filipjers.com 
> 
> All the best from sunny Stockholm, Sweden
> 
> / Filip Jers
> 
> www.myspace.com/filipjers 
> http://www.youtube.com/filipjers 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Filip Jers


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