Hands-free chromatic harmonica
Everyone has seen and heard performers like Bob Dylan and Neil Young play harmonica and guitar. Enrico wished to take this art a long step forward by playing jazz on his classical guitar and chromatic harmonica. However, the little ten-hole diatonic harmonicas used by Dylan and Young are unsuitable to jazz because they lack the notes that appear on the black keys of the piano. The chromatic harmonica has all all the notes but requires the player to push a button with his finger to play a sharp or flat "black key" note. Fer a long time this frustrated his ambition.
in 2002 Enrico discovered that Vern Smith, an amateur musician and mechanical engineer in California, had developed a hands-free chromatic harmonica that did not have a finger button. Aware that that it would open the door to vast new musical possibilities . Enrico was delighted to find this new instrument. The early models of the Hands-Free Chromatic were crude, but Enrico developed his chops and arrangements. Vern improved the instrument. On his album " In Search of the Third Dimension" Enrico employs his arsenal of 6 strings on 20 frets and 48 reeds to produce jazz of amazing richness and complexity. What is recorded here is one take with Enrico playing both instruments simultaneously in exactly the same way that he plays for a live audience. You have never heard anything like this before!
Everyone has seen and heard performers like Bob Dylan and Neil Young play harmonica and guitar. Enrico wished to take this art a long step forward by playing jazz on his classical guitar and chromatic harmonica. However, the little ten-hole diatonic harmonicas used by Dylan and Young are unsuitable to jazz because they lack the notes that appear on the black keys of the piano. The chromatic harmonica has all all the notes but requires the player to push a button with his finger to play a sharp or flat "black key" note. Fer a long time this frustrated his ambition.
in 2002 Enrico discovered that Vern Smith, an amateur musician and mechanical engineer in California, had developed a hands-free chromatic harmonica that did not have a finger button. Aware that that it would open the door to vast new musical possibilities . Enrico was delighted to find this new instrument. The early models of the Hands-Free Chromatic were crude, but Enrico developed his chops and arrangements. Vern improved the instrument. On his album " In Search of the Third Dimension" Enrico employs his arsenal of 6 strings on 20 frets and 48 reeds to produce jazz of amazing richness and complexity. What is recorded here is one take with Enrico playing both instruments simultaneously in exactly the same way that he plays for a live audience. You have never heard anything like this before!
|
|
|
|