Rick Derringer, Jerry Goldsmith, The Edgar Winter Group, Ennio Morricone, McCoy Tyner, Carlos Santana, Oscar Pettiford, Henry Mancini, Alexander Desplat, John Zorn....
Erik Friedlander can do things with a cello that should have a reasonable listener fearing for her life," says PitchforkMedia.com, "Rostropovich one second and Rottweiler the next." A virtuosic veteran of NYC's downtown scene, Friedlander has backed John Zorn, John Darnielle's Mountain Goats, Laurie Anderson, and Courtney Love. New York's Erik Friedlander is a unique cellist whose work blurs genre borders. He is a composer and an improviser, a classical musician and a jazzbo. The LA Times put it best when they wrote, "Friedlander's performance clearly positions him as the first potential star performer on his instrument." Erik grew up in a home filled with art and music. He is the son of Lee Friedlander, an art photographer known by musicians and jazz aficionados for the cover photographs he took for Atlantic Records. His passion for r&b and jazz greatly influenced Erik, whose earliest memories are of a household filled with the sounds of his father's subjects--Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, McCoy Tyner, Ornette Coleman, and John Coltrane. Erik started playing guitar at age 6 and added cello two years later.
your a good man ... and you are very intelligent you can do anything , if you can play music the way you do .. you have a strong enough will to do anything you want in life and never ever forget that
wow this is very wonderful music, i downloaded one of your tracks!! when are you coming to italy again? i would love to show you some of my instruments. meantime if you want to you can see more of my work at peterpotsliutaio. com stay in touch peter
Por que en las letras de los tangos, se escribe parte de nuestra historia, por que en su música se tejen nuestros sueños, Por que el amigo está ahí, entre sus notas.
Hi Erik, Thanks for the great concert here in Dublin in May and the chats and pints afterwards...! Hope the rest of the tour went well. Hope to hear you soon again. A presto Francesco
