Erik Henriksson - Guitarist

erikhenriksson

New member
Hello! My name is Erik Henriksson, I'm an acoustic/electric guitarist and a composer from Sweden. Here's a composition for acoustic guitar called Höstfjäril (Autumn Butterfly) that I've made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pOQgIyfu1w
The music is inspired with everything from classical, flamenco, indian ragas to rock/fusion.

Looking forward to read more here on the forum!

All good,

Erik
 

wljmrbill

Member
Welcome to the forums. I hope you find your time here enjoyable. Enjoyed your posting. Sounds like you are very talented to me. Is that a mic attached to the guitar or an electrified unit?
 

John Watt

Member
Oooh! The comment above made me want to listen, and I did.
No way I'm going to sit here for over fifteen minutes, just a first few.

Calling this Autumn Butterfly is a perfect title and imagery for the guitar playing.
I could hear flutterings, a bass note to remind you of gravity, with more butterfly wingings.
The acoustic sound is perfect for this, like a picnic in a meadow.
I did hear the body being rapped, and butterfly wings don't make sounds like that.

One foggy morning, coming up to some trees I pass by on the way to Niagara Falls,
the two big red-tailed hawks that I see were there, only this time sitting side by side,
when usually they are in two separate trees.
One of them took off when I got too close and as it turned the woodland corner,
one of it's wings hit an outside branch and it made a loud sound, just like "oh ****".
I'm not kidding. I don't use profanity, yeah, unless I'm quoting a hawk.

This guitarist, Erik, has enough speed to be penetrating even with hawk music.
If I can make one suggestion, if you title another song after another creature,
maybe you could try playing the singing of that creature.
Two trumpeter swans mating, both of them singing back and forth and together,
is still the most beautiful sounds I've ever heard.
I assume these two arctic birds were mating, in the dark after midnight, across a field,
along Chippewa Creek, resting, while they were flying north.

Uh, some humans can still sing like they don't know how to talk.
 
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erikhenriksson

New member
Thank you, I'm glad to hear! I'm using an acoustic flamenco guitar, two mics were set up to record the guitar and one mic for the guitar case which I'm using for some stomping. And a few mics for the room!
 

John Watt

Member
Yes, thank you too!
Not that you have much to learn,
but Bruce Cockburn with one of his earliest albums, "High Winds and White Skies", a double album,
with a black and white photo looking up a forest in the winter, is still one of my favorite acoustic albums.
I've never heard him play for fifteen minutes.
Here's a link to a now senior citizen. How about analyzing his guitar solo for us all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z02J_kPincA

To be real, standing backstage at Brock University side-by-side with Bruce Cockburn,
after he finished performing, winter of 1970, someone called out,
hey John, how does it feel to hear another guitarist who plays like you? It got quiet.
Bruce turned to look me in the eye. Everyone knew I had a Strat and Marshall with effects,
sounding like Jimi Hendrix while he was still alive, and all I did was carry my guitar around.
I said if a rock guitarist can play a steady bass riff and fingerpick chords,
then a folk guitarist who fingerpicks chords can play a steady bass line too.
Bruce was smiling and everyone else kept partying.

Bruce started using a Stratocaster, standing up to play, but went back to acoustic,
kinda, as you can hear his echo use, and kept standing up.
Standing beside him, hearing him, I knew I was in the presence of a great man.
He was talking in global terms, and eventually became a great spokesman for many causes,
all humanitarian and saving the planet. Many Canadians heard this first from him.
He said when he was in the Brazilian rain-forest, birds would disappear into a different dimension.
You have to be more than just special to be able to witness that.
Butterflies are free, and so are you Erik. Play on.
Just don't cocoon on us.
 
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John Watt

Member
Erik! I'm going to be more restrained than I usually am,
and will only use my reply to your interior message, not showing yours.
This could be considered as keeping it above board,
but it's more about my limited computer and musical use.

Erik! Thank you for your kind consideration of my fontification,
about your guitar playing. We must share the same musical head space.
I don't use the interior messaging here, just posting on some forums,
unless I have domain questions, but I have to reply to your message.

The Mayan have a history of their great bird, Quetzoacotl,
the divine bird of the quetzal species, if the spelling is right,
who disappeared into a different dimension, his return being their restoration.

No, no, I'm not going to keep typing.
Telling you I saw Jimi Hendrix in Toronto,
and was one of three guitarists in Ontario,
who owned a Strat and Marshall with effects,
while Jimi was alive, should tell you how old I am,
and why I have so much time to comment here.

I'm looking forward to hearing more of your guitar playing,
and I can't think of the last time I said that to a solo artist.
Oh yeah, it was backstage with Bruce Cockburn, 1970.

The forums seem slow, seeing older unanswered postings.

And as Jimi Hendrix typed to introduce his first liner notes,
please be forewarned, even if you are as interested as you are interesting,
I can say with authority, no-one asks for free old man advice.

as always, John Watt
 
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