Author: arvind
-
Cafe de Valk
Last minute gig in Antwerpen tomorrow: opening for King Champion Sounds, that new band with ex-Ex singer G.W. Sok. At Cafe de Valk, Offerandestraat 93. Doors at 1900, showtime at 20:00 (or so).
-
The Mud, The Blood and The Beer
Dagora’s Stephen Doyle (drums), Cae Carvalho (electronics) and I started a new band called The Mud, The Blood and The Beer. Tomorrow we’re doing our improvised noise playing our second show at the Dokhuis Gallery in Amsterdam. Also playing is the trio of Anne Le Berge/Renato Ferreira/Frankie Vis, and DJ Gingermoon spinning some records. Excellent…
-
Busy saturday
Tomorrow I’m playing two shows. First, in the afternoon, at W139 at an impromptu improvised music festival. Also playing will be Stephen Doyle of Dagora fame with a drum solo, Fetter with her vocal drone pop dreams, and some DJs. We will most likely join each other’s sets and improvise some stuff on the spot,…
-
No Revolution
Tomorrow afternoon Cae Carvalho (electronics), Stephen Doyle (drums) and I are playing a set at the opening of the 510 Shows, No Revolution exhibition at W139 in Amsterdam. Starts at 14:00 in the afternoon. Really looking forward to playing with these guys.
-
Brussels and Kassel with Rogier Smal
Rogier and I are taking our duo on a mini-tour to liberty: tonight we’re playing in Brussels at Coiffure Liliane, and saturday we’re in Kassel at Super TOKONOMA. We’re superpsyched to play some dates together, and to eat some road!
-
Modern Flamenco in the Courtyard
Friday Manuela Tessi and I play our third Modern Flamenco set at Studio Seven in Amsterdam. There will be four shorter sets that night, see here for more info. The weather will be great so we will do our performance in the courtyard, with Manuela swirling through the audience like an ecstatic butterfly. Monday and…
-
Duo with Cae Carvalho
Tomorrow I’m playing a duo with Cae Carvalho on electronics. We’re opening for Lori Goldston whose name may not ring a bell with you immediately but you surely know her as the girl that plays cello at Nirvana’s unplugged session. Currently she does real interesting things as an improviser, so come down!
-
Help Me To Crash in Poland
Help Me To Crash is Maria Mavridou and Malgorzata Haduch (dance) and me (guitar). Next week we’ll be touring Poland: saturday Maria and I both do a solo set in Krakow. Then, on wednesday, we do four dates as a trio in Krakow, Wroclaw, Bydgoszcz and Torun. Never been to Poland, this will be great,
-
Arty-farty bicycle expedition
Modern Flamenco is the new duo of Manuela Tessi (dance) and me, where we search for our inner souths. Soon more on this project. Saturday, we’re playing our second gig at the Volle Band Tour Concrète, an “arty-farty bicycle expedition” in Amsterdam. It’s a bike tour through Amsterdam with performances along the way, and we’re…
-
Back from France
Just got back from playing some dates in France and one in Brussels, together with Sajjra (Chrs Galarreta). We played at an awesome festival on a farm near Nantes, a bar in Paris, the wonderful Totem in Nancy, and the great HS63 in Brussels. We had a blast playing our music there, and are really…