To say Carlos del Junco plays the harmonica is like saying that Jimi Hendrix plays guitar. He blows the blues harp through a prism — suddenly it seems he's holding every color in the musical rainbow right there in his hands
Date/Time: Mar 18 2018, 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Vancouver, Rogue Folk ClubCost: $26.00
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Simultaneously sophisticated and raw, his playing blurs the boundaries between blues and jazz. The emphasis is on blues, but Carlos and his band are not afraid to merrily traipse off in other directions delivering a seamless fusion of New Orleans second line grooves, swing, Latin, hip-hop or ska melodies, to swampy roots rock.
Carlos is certainly not your straight-ahead blues harmonica player. He will occasionally take a blues standard and flip it upside down to breath new life into it. Playing a ten hole diatonic harmonica, Carlos has developed the unique ability to play chromatically by using a recently developed "overblow" technique taught to him by jazz virtuoso Howard Levy. Overall, this approach to the diatonic harmonica, although much more difficult to achieve, is in many ways more expressive and communicative than the mechanized tone produced by the chromatic harmonica . Carlos is one of the few pioneers of this overblow method, bringing musical credibility to what has still been considered by many in the music industry - a fringe folk instrument.
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