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Ash Grunwald

From Australia

Since the turn of the millennium Australian blues and surfing devotee Ash Grunwald has amassed a loyal following of fans that can't stop dancing to his
acoustic bluegrass, folk/rock style.

Ash started off strictly acoustic then began incorporating modern
technology. He explains: "The technology is not that subtle. I use the
stomp box on my left foot and a tambourine on my right. I also use a
foot controlled sampler. I layer in percussion by recording myself
hitting my guitars (the sound goes to the sampler via my acoustic
pickups) and creating loops on the spot. I use a Boss phrase looper. It
looks pretty much like a normal guitar pedal except it has two pedals,
one for record and one to stop. I can layer as many overdubs as I want
down. The only tricky bit is that if you stuff up you have to start
again because you can't take a layer away!" (The New Black Magazine).

Ash Grunwald's fifth studio album, Hot Mama Vibes, is neck-deep in the
technological swamp of the 21st Century. It's also the most primal
concoction of elemental junkyard soul to stomp through your speakers
this year.

(Biography supplied by WOMAD New Zealand 2012)

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