Subject: [Harp-L] HARMONICA PLAYING Arabian nights Belly dance music!!!!

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

Before making assumptions about ANYone's playing and of harmonica  
specifically, especially when it comes to YouTube videos where the music is  notoriously 
out of sync with the actual playing in so many instances, I tend  to seek out 
a Live performance by the same artist.
 
I found one for this same player Ashok Bhandari (it's stated as having been  
done during a performance in the USSR from 1990):
 
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJafvhfycPM_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJafvhfycPM) 
 
Since Vern makes a point that music is 'only mentioned once' in  the man's 
website,  during that performance he plays his harmonica for an  extraordinarily 
long time for someone whose music is purportedly 'only a  sideline'.
 
I also took the time to read comments on some of his videos, where people  
who know him congratulate him for focusing more now on his true calling...  
harmonica playing.
 
And just to cinch it, I found a blogspot by a long time old friend of his  
who specifies that Mr. Bharani is one of those people who make a point of  
'outing' the 'fake magicians' ...and also talks about his harmonica  playing. A 
simple google search took me here:
 
_http://harmonicaclubofgujarat.blogspot.com/2008/08/magician-who-plays-mouth-o
rgan-ashok.html_ 
(http://harmonicaclubofgujarat.blogspot.com/2008/08/magician-who-plays-mouth-organ-ashok.html) 
 
here it is in tiny url form:
 
http://tinyurl.com/deonq8


Decide for yourself if this guy is the real deal or not.  I believe  he's as 
decent a chromatic player as he shows himself to be, especially since  his 
version of Lara's Theme from Dr. Zhivago has quite a few flubs in  it...something 
surely a charlatan would have managed to avoid?
 
Isn't there also the possibility he recorded himself playing first and then  
played over it for the video?  After all, there are no 'rules' in YouTube  
that every performance has to be played Live into the computer...that isn't  how 
music videos are made, nor how those people post their music who are  
multi-instrumentalists who have to do over-dubs. 
 
I agree with you Randy, the belly dancing playing was GREAT!  He also  has an 
original composition up on YouTube (audio only) which is quite  beautiful).
 
Elizabeth
 
 
"Message: 12
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:37:45 -0800
From: "Vern Smith"  <jevern@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] HARMONICA PLAYING Arabian nights  Belly dance
music!!!!
To: "Randy Singer"  <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,    "harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx"
<harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>

I am mystified by the introduction.  He  appears to trill on 
the slide but the note from the harp doesn't  change.  Could 
this be "harp-synching"??   He is a magician  who may feel OK 
about fooling his audience.

A remarkable performanc  from one to whom music is apparently 
only a sideline!

His website  mentions music once but doesn't mention 
harmonica.  He is primarily  known as a magician.  Debunking 
the occult powers of fraudulent  magicians is important in 
India where these charlatans prey on the  ignorant.

Vern"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randy  Singer" <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx"  <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 7:34  AM
Subject: [Harp-L] HARMONICA PLAYING Arabian nights Belly 
dance  music!!!!


> THIS IS GREAT!!!
>
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJp1gPilmxs
>
>  _______________________________________________
>





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