The Fender Relic And The Purple Violin Concerto
In the huge world of music and musical instruments, it can be easy to become overwhelmed with the products available for musicians to use. For the guitarist, the Fender Relic is a customized Fender guitar luthier that creates legitimate forgeries of classic and vintage guitars. Although of course these guitars are for playing, they are also often purchased by collectors or others who enjoy an old-fashioned feel and style to their guitar. In addition to providing these services, the custom shop also build ‘art’ guitars – which tend to be released in limited quantities – as well as amps and other instruments and instrument accessories.
Although guitars certainly have a more contemporary or rock n’ roll reputation, other instruments have maintained their classical associations for centuries. Despite the fact that we now have the technology to “electrify” violins and other symphonic instruments, they are still regularly used to classical, chamber or symphonic music. Regardless, some musicians have done a great deal to modernize and update the violin’s image as well as the music it makes. Ed Alleyne-Johnson, for example, is an English electronic violinist famous for his Purple Electric Violin Concerto, an album that came out in 1992. His debut album, the Purple Violin Concerto contains a variety of classical, but updated, pieces. His Oxford Suite Parts one through four, his Inner City Music Parts one through four, an episode entitled “Improvisation,” and a final piece named “Concrete Eden,” are all featured. A multi-talented musicians, Alleyne-Johnson can also play the guitar, bass guitar, and other instruments; he also released a few other albums after his first, which covered famous songs such as The Police’s “Every Step You Take,” and “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” by Pink Floyd.
Covering the Fender Relic and a violin album may seem to cover a lot of ground for one article, but didn’t you learn something?
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