Robert Jürjendal
Estonian musician (born 1966)
Robert Jürjendal (born 10 January 1966) is an Estonian guitar player and composer.
Biography
He trained as a classical guitarist, later studied Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft and learned to play loop music.
Jürjendal is a member of Weekend Guitar Trio, UMA, Fragile, The Fragile Moment. The trio won the 1995 First prize at Lausanne International Guitar festival. He has worked with Riho Sibul, Tõnis Mägi, Tim Bowness, Siiri Sisask, David Rothenberg, Petri Kuljuntausta, Kärt Johanson, Celia Roose, Miguel Noya, Paul Godwin. He was composer for the films: The Measure of Man (documentary) (2011), Teispool vihma (short) (2004).
Instruments and gear
As an experimental guitarist and composer, Robert uses a wide variety of instruments and effects to help him create musical textures that set the mood of his compositions. In an interview with Guitar Moderne, Robert revealed some of the equipment he most often uses. His main guitar is an Ovation semi acoustic steel guitar equipped with a MIDI pickup that he uses with a Roland VG-8 guitar processor. He also uses this processor with a Breedlove C15 Custom semi-acoustic guitar.
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