{"id":936,"date":"2008-11-03T13:16:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T21:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/?p=936"},"modified":"2009-10-05T19:04:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T02:04:55","slug":"yuri-lane-beatbox-harmonica-phenom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/2008\/11\/03\/yuri-lane-beatbox-harmonica-phenom\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuri Lane: Beatbox + Harmonica Phenom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard not to be a fan of the harmonica. From <a title=\"John Popper\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Popper\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">John Popper<\/a> to <a title=\"Bob Dylan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Dylan\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">Bob Dylan<\/a>, many big name artists have popularized the instrument, but it still doesn&#8217;t get quite the attention it deserves. Have you ever seen someone play the harmonica and beatbox at the same time? We looked at <a title=\"beatboxing flute\" href=\"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/17\/beatboxing-flute-loops-and-more\/\">beatboxing flute<\/a> previously, which was interesting, but check out this guy <a title=\"Yuri Lane\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yurilane.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">Yuri Lane<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JHUuqsSCn5g?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you like blues, give <a title=\"this one\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7tda6i_bdlA\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">this one<\/a> a listen. Or for a dub-influenced jam, <a title=\"this one\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gbTxYOlhUxw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We see more and more musicians using their art as a way to communicate a message &#8211; oftentimes in the vein of political or social commentary. Some think of music <a title=\"as their weapon\" href=\"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/18\/music-is-our-weapon\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">as their weapon<\/a>. Yuri has created a &#8220;hip hop travelogue of peace&#8221; called <em>From Tel Aviv to Ramallah<\/em> (see the promo video <a title=\"promo video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=muLGpX1GZA4\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">here<\/a>) to that end. The somewhat nerdy, very approachable, and obviously talented kid is creating an interesting niche for himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard not to be a fan of the harmonica. From John Popper to Bob Dylan, many big name artists have popularized the instrument, but it still doesn&#8217;t get quite the attention it deserves. Have you ever seen someone play the harmonica and beatbox at the same time? We looked at beatboxing flute previously, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3,4,17,25,30,31,40],"tags":[202,807,1798,2028],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3609,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/3609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}