BERLIN!
what a place! and mad shows coming up:
- Tue 16 June at Antje öklesund
- Wed 17 June at Die Remise Summer Camp outdoor @ Maria
- Thu 18 June at Schokoladen with Tuna Laguna & Liger
- Fri 19 June at Gelegenheiten
Amsterdam
had some great shows here, at De Balie, OCCII, and a nice little house show. also saw great shows by Karl Blau, very intriguing Dutch band Saelors, and Dj Rupture/Andy Moor. i found a very open-minded & engaged audience here for which i can’t be more thankful. Our friend Vincent got some great footage of the shows, I’ll put some up when i return.
Barcelona
Had a great time playing an afterparty for excellent French dub band High Tone. Fantastic audience shouting and clapping along and their soundsystem nearly imploding… i felt so powerful, haha.
My jetlagged schedule of staying up until 4am each night works perfectly here. Thank you for that, Barcelona. Staying 3 blocks from a beautiful beach also works perfectly… thanks for that, as well as public shared bicycles, loooong lunches in sunny courtyards, and the kindnesses of friends and strangers (you know who you are!)
Details of my next shows, in Amsterdam and Berlin, are posted on the shows page.
to BCN!
rushed out of NYC having just finished a little tour CD… gotta love the Chinese CD duplication spot in Harlem, $25 for 50 CDs?! Uploaded one new track for ya as well… it’s called A Spring Day, based on a recent loop improvisation.
So it turns out AirFrance has really, really good taste in music, who knew? i listened to their sort of “default mix” for the entire 6 or so hours, half-asleep. arrived in Barcelona red-eyed to the much-appreciated hospitality of Filastine. somehow i have a new and fancy apartment all to myself for this week, while i’m writing and recording with Dj/Rupture’s group Nettle, and getting ready for my solo shows in Amsterdam and Berlin.
i’m so sad i missed the festivities last night though… Rupture playing after Ghostface Killah at Primavera, and then Filastine past dawn at an underground party that sounded amazing.
i really need to get my Spanish in the forefront of my mind again… since my Japanese is way stronger, i find myself mixing things up… saying the number 212 as “dos ichi dos” reduces one’s chance of being understood by quite a bit.
Amsterdam & Berlin Solo Shows
Amsterdam
- June 7, at Debalie, with Alex of Saelors
- June 9, at Occii, with Andy Moor and Dj/rupture
Berlin
- June 16 at Antje öklesund
- June 17 at Die Remise Summer Camp outdoor @ Maria
- June 18 at Schokoladen with Liger
- June 19 at Gelegenheiten
Barcelona
- 1st week of June, TBD
Europe Shows
I’ll be in Barcelona at the beginning of June for a recording with dj/rupture’s Nettle… then doing some shows there, in Amsterdam, and in Berlin. More info posted soon. And it’s short notice but if you have contacts or ideas for venues for me in Spain/France/Germany/Netherlands/Belgium, hit me up!
Degenerates!
Last week I played some shows with my dear friends in the Degenerate Art Ensemble, a crazy brilliant crew from Seattle. did a night at Zebulon and 2 at the New Museum. Looking forward to (somehow) seeing their big show coming this October…
City Made of Waste, music by me
Concepts from Architect Teddy Cruz, video by the wonderful Laura Hanna for the Nation website… interesting take on border cities, globalism, recycling, new architectures.
Laura used several cuts from my CD Cinema Deep Crush for the music, really odd and cool for me to hear the way she edited them together.
The Nation page:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090216/cityofwaste_video
Kral Majales at Vaudeville Park
this is an improvised solo piece i played March 31, 2009 at Vaudeville Park, with video installation by Brian Zegeer. recorded live, with the shutters shuddering outside in the spring winds.
for the coming of spring…
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a sketch of a new piece written on the first spring-like day of spring 2009. just a quick recording, sorry for the low quality.