I just discovered this young woman yesterday. This was recorded nine years ago, when she was fourteen years old, and had only been playing for two years.
Here’s something more recent.
Her technique is amazing, using lots of harmonics, and hitting the strings with both hands. She doesn’t look it, and you wouldn’t know by her name, but she’s Swedish.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s another very nice piece. Note the percussive effect of hitting the string with the backs of her fingers. It’s nice to see a young woman playing songs written decades before she was born.
[Update late afternoon]
OK, one more. This is the one that I discovered her with. Just amazing guitar work, recorded a couple months ago. The strength and precision of her fingers is incredible.
Maybe a small thing but seems indicative of her dedication to her art – I noticed in the more recent video that she has long, somewhat pointed, nails on her right hand making them effectively finger-picks and almost no nails on the left hand. Not a typical fashion choice, I think.
I do that, too, but I’ve seen her use fingerpicks as well.
Her arrangements are even more impressive than her playing. I think it’s fair to say she is, first, a compositional prodigy with a genuine genius for adaptation rather than origination and only secondarily a guitarist. She seems deliberately not to include every last note of the original source material but to let a carefully selected subset of the notes “suggest” what she leaves out. Musically, she’s doing what the Impressionists did with paint. Quite unique.
Agreed. My favorite so far is her rendition of Arrowsmith’s Dream On.
Awesome find, Rand, and I thank you!
Well the Swedes do need somebody to redeem them since they fell to that garbage piece of shit Greta Thunberg.
“She doesn’t look it, and you wouldn’t know by her name, but she’s Swedish.”
Reminds me of Ed Begley, Jr’s character in A Mighty Wind, the Swedish producer and folk music aficionado Lars Olfen. “I had a garage band in Stockholm, which was a challenge in its own right, to keep an instrument tuned with that temperature swing. There’s a block warmer for the Volvo in the garage but it’s cold in there in the winter.”
On top of that, his reminiscences in one scene are all replete with Yiddish (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQlewxD8BvM).
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She is amazingly talented. Thanks for letting me know about her. I’ve always wanted to learn how to play the guitar but age and stiff fingers may not allow me to do that. I admire people who can play so cleanly and beautiful.