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• MikkoKarhula Helsinki, Finland✭✭ Manouche Orchestre 14-fret D-hole #134

  December 2014 Posts: 47

  https://youtube.com/watch?v=ihPck2zcWLA
• Rob MacKillop Edinburgh, Scotland✭✭✭✭

  December 2014 Posts: 201

  Mikko, that is stunning. Very beautiful. Despite all the fancy fretwork, I heard the melody pretty much throughout. I loved the harmonic surprises, the twists and turns of your lines. I hear influences from Gypsy Jazz, Flamenco, and Joe Pass - a wonderful mixture. Encore!
  

  
• Karlo Croatia✭✭ Cigano

  December 2014 Posts: 13

  It's just one of the lovely surprises here, but that golpe made me sigh with pleasure! Currently listening to other tracks of yours with much enjoyment (Waltz for Ivo!).

  
• MikkoKarhula Helsinki, Finland✭✭ Manouche Orchestre 14-fret D-hole #134

  December 2014 Posts: 47

  Thank you guys for your wonderful words!
  
• MikkoKarhula Helsinki, Finland✭✭ Manouche Orchestre 14-fret D-hole #134

  December 2014 Posts: 47

  Karlo wrote: »

  It's just one of the lovely surprises here, but that golpe made me sigh with pleasure! Currently listening to other tracks of yours with much enjoyment (Waltz for Ivo!).

  
  I noticed that you are from Croatia. I´m now practicing with my new band and we are playing music from Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia etc. and mixing those influences in gypsy jazz and other styles. I have really fell in love music from that area.:) There's something same in Finnish melancholy.
  

  
• Karlo Croatia✭✭ Cigano

  December 2014 Posts: 13

  MikkoKarhula wrote: »

  Karlo wrote: »

  It's just one of the lovely surprises here, but that golpe made me sigh with pleasure! Currently listening to other tracks of yours with much enjoyment (Waltz for Ivo!).

  
  I noticed that you are from Croatia. I´m now practicing with my new band and we are playing music from Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia etc. and mixing those influences in gypsy jazz and other styles. I have really fell in love music from that area.:) There's something same in Finnish melancholy.

  
  Hey, don't forget Bosnia. Anyhow, that sort of band is right up my alley, and the mixture I both enjoy playing and listening to. Nowadays it seems to be hard to avoid, to my enjoyment, with the likes of Tcha Limberger for one. I wish I could say that we have plenty of that over here, but we don't. There are certainly weddings and such, but it's a wholly different affair. To conclude: based on what I've heard today, I look forward to hearing more - props to you!
  
  P.S. Send me a PM if you would perhaps enjoy exchanging thoughts about music (the sort you have mentioned, especially). I'd like to know what the repertoire looks like. Maybe I could pass on a few good bands/songs, too, old or new.

  
• jwpfeifer Phoenix, Arizona✭✭ Dupont Nomade

  December 2014 Posts: 21

  This is absolutely amazing. It's one of the best arrangements of Autumn leaves on solo-guitar that I've ever heard.

  
• MikkoKarhula Helsinki, Finland✭✭ Manouche Orchestre 14-fret D-hole #134

  December 2014 Posts: 47

  Thanks a lot jwpfeifer! I´m very grateful for your words.
• Bones Moderator

  December 2014 Posts: 3,333

  Very nice, thanks for posting it.

  
• Buco NOVA, DCDeity Ivanovski maple/spruce

  December 2014 Posts: 5,322

  Holly cow! Mikko, you kick ass in a big way.
  There's a fluidity in your playing that I find incredible, the notes, phrases and pauses just pour in a continuous stream.
  With all that flamboyance in your playing there's still modesty in your words above, very cool.
  Thank you for sharing.

  

  Every note wants to go somewhere-Kurt Rosenwinkel