UkeTube: Jacob Borshard, Sweetafton23, WS64

Videos this week from Jacob Borshard, Sweetafton23, WS64 and many more.

Jacob Borshard - Rainbow Connection [Read more]

If this is your first visit here, you can find the chords/tab in those posts by clicking on the song title in red.

Michael Wagner, Tripping Lily and Max the Ukulele Punk Rocker

Videos this week from Michael Wagner, Sam and Max (the ukulele punk rocker) Tripping Lily and plenty of others.

Michael Wagner - A Love Song [Read more]

Maddi J, Evilhamster95, Elizabeth Darling

Videos from two quite sickeningly talented 12 year olds this week along with more gnarled and creased performers such as the New England Ukulele Orchestra, Aaron Keim, Victoria Vox and a bunch more.

Maddi J* - My Light [Read more]

Taimane Gardner, GUGUG, Ema and the Ghosts

My favourite ukulele videos of the week from Taimane, GUGUG, Ema and the Ghosts and plenty of others. [Read more]

The Saturday UkeTube

Far too many videos this week. A couple of Hawaiian masters, a ukulele/melodica cover of Beck, GUGUG, a bit of English folk music, loads of other stuff. Click More to see them all. [Read more]

The Saturday UkeTube

Click here to see my pick of the week’s ukulele videos. [Read more]

The Saturday UkeTube

Another bumper crop this week. Jake Shimabukuro’s performance at the SF Ukulele Festival, new Taimane clips and a number of videos from a ukulele get together in Dortmund with a whole bunch of Uke Hunt favourites. Not to mention some ukulele juggling.

Watch more clips including Stephin Merritt reworking a kids’ classic and a GUGUG going solo over the fold.
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The Saturday UkeTube

It seems like every week there are more and more great ukulele videos being uploaded. Check out this week’s after the fold.

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The Saturday UkeTube

First off, be sure to check out the videos from the ukulele festival in Helsinki. Loads of excellent stuff. Second off, head over the fold for more. [Read more]

Earlyguard

Earlyguard is a big favourite here at Uke Hunt. I’ve already tabbed his tunes Busy Bee and Blue Smoke. Yesterday he released an album of his ambient and atmospheric tunes Time To Relax which you can download it for free at his MySpace.

Earlyguard’s music is far removed from the ‘rata-tat-tat’ delivery of most ukulele songs. When I asked him about how he developed his style he was typically self-effacing, “I’m not able to play the usual style. My fingers are too slow and my knowledge of the usual playing techniques is still at the very beginning.” His style is very distinctive. It’s the first style I know of that is unique to the electric ukulele (rather than sounding like an amplified acoustic-uke or an electric guitar). All but two of the tracks on Time To Relax were record with his trusty RISA Uke-Solid.

It’s hard to believe but Earlyguard (the name is a translation of his surname, Fruhwacht) only started to play the ukulele at the beginning of this year after commandeering a ukulele he had given his daughter for Christmas. Since then he has produced new tunes in rapid succession. As well as the tunes on this album, you can hear many more on his MySpace and his YouTube channel.

Earlyguard’s influences may not be what you’d expect, “I love music of all styles. The Beatles as well as Metallica for example. I don’t like ‘New Age’ music that much but it’s funny that my own music could be described that way.” Indeed, it was The Beatles that inspired his uke playing, “Watching the beautiful Concert For George tribute on DVD where Paul McCartney played Something on a ukulele - this was the point for me - the wish to play this lovely instrument took over.”

As well as his solo work, Earlyguard is one half of Earlywolf, “Earlywolf is a relationship with WS64 and some friends as guest musicians. It started at Ukulelenboard where I posted a song at the ‘membersound’ section in January. WS liked it very much and asked if we could do some songs together. I recorded many songs in the past years (2004-2005) with my GarageBand software and WS took the single tracks and re-recorded and re-arranged them. His musical skills are extraordinary and so he did a fantastic job I think. On some songs we asked some friends to play a solo or do better vocals than me and it was great fun to work this way.” You can download the resulting album free at earlywolf.com.

I’ve only had Earlyguard’s album for 24 hours but I’m already chilled out and relaxed. I highly recommend you take a little time to relax and head over to his MySpace and download it.

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