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Introduction
01:10
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For the introduction i recorded some wind noise and some slide playing on the lof g ukulele. Then I came up with a tin bowl to have a sound like if a case opens and inpromptu music like on a fiddle or mandolin comes out a bit in a classical arpeggio manner.
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Fiddle Uke Tune
02:02
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The tunes' origin was an instant inspiration when my kids watched a Fairy Tale movie with a fiddle tune scene in it that cathched me and was shown in a similar scenery.
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"In praise of the Inconspiciuous" means different things to me: 1st is the fact that the ukulele is such a tiny little instrument that is often underestimated (i did that many years). The total opposite is the case. Its obvious limitations can turn yourself into
widen the boarders, get more creative with it. The people that grab the uke and choose it as their musical instrument prove, that there is a wide musical world that speaks through the uke.
2nd is meant more generally. In daily life, society, as oneself we often underrate inconspicios things, turns, situations. Mostly it is the average normal things that bring us happiness. We all long for bigger, more, maximum, perfection but there is only one guarantee in human life: imperfection and trying to cope with it in gentle, easy going way (as a principle).
Everyone has to deliver something that is of a certain value. Sometimes those skills are not obvious because we learned to watch out for other values or behaviors.
Step by step, going wrong, learn from it, progress, we can decide to change something every day.
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Katamaran Transfer
03:04
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I composed that tune as my first real ukulele fingerstyle tune when i went to the isle of Borkum last year for a recovery period with one of my kids. A motor driven katamaran brought the poeple from Emden to Borkum.
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Song for Gerry
02:12
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This song originally was composed for (resonator) guitar. I applied to to the low g ukulele when starting on the uke in late 2020.
Gerry was my father in law, a soulful fellow, musician and guy to talk to about life.
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Reanimation
03:31
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I came up with this tune for the singer of the band "Brise manouche" who was (nearly) dead on friday the 13th. Fortunately she managed to call the emergency doctors who helped her coming back to life.
Reanimation sometimes means being in the moment again to me. Our (urban) lives are often so stressfull and hasty that we need certain places, environments or a good friend to get some rest, talk and meditation to feel "new" or at least refreshed again.
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Jan Haasler Erfurt, Germany
My uke journey started in September 2020. The playing of Roy Smeck, Herb Ohta-San, Ukulelezaza and f.e. Corey Fujimoto (and
many others) totally struck me all of a sudden i heard it last summer.
Many years I ignored the uke as a serious instrument being a guitar player since my childhood.
My journey is to get as much expression and distinctive creativity out of the soprano ukulele as possible.
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