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El Otro at Vrooom Rotterdam
This saturday, november 25, El Otro plays at Vrooom #54, at the Pink Pank in Rotterdam. With the great Georgian saz player Asiq Nargile. This will be a very special evening, looking forward.
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El Otro at Munganga
Tomorrow El Otro is playing at Munganga theater in Amsterdam. Other sets by Gabor Hartyani with Robbert van Hulzen, two spoken word performances and a capoeira event. Crazy combination, can’t wait to see it!
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Myriads #15
Monday 6 november I’m organizing another concert at Helicopter, which will be a crazy night with Olli Aarni and Nuslux, two Finnish experimental performers. Also acoustical explorations by Haddow, and I’m happy to play a set as well with Maria Mavridou, the great greek dancer who is also part of Help Me To Crash. In…
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Myriads 14: Mikko Savela, Ilya Ziblat, Görkem Arıkan
Friday october 27 next concert in the Myriads series at Helicopter! Three sets by three musicians who are each pushing the boundaries of their instrument in a different way. Mikko Savela turns his beaten-down guitars into a percussion instrument using electronics, objects and his bare hands; Ilya Ziblat plays live contrabass interacting with computers, and…
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Improvisation at Loos
Tomorrow I’m playing in an instant trio at Studio Loos in Den Haag, improvising with Josue Amador and Liew Niyomkarn. Also playing is GRID, who just have a new tape out on NNA Tapes, with Tim Dahl on the bass who is amazing. Hope to see you!
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Two more Fading Ground reviews
Two wonderful reviews of the Fading Ground cd with Josué Amador and Dirar Kalash came in. First from Opduvel, in Dutch. It’s a detailed review, last paragraph here: “Fading Ground contains an enormous amount of musical details, wrapped in a sometimes very noisy jacket. Amador, Ganga and Kalash play free improvisation with a rock attitude…
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El Otro at West Wednesdays
Tomorrow El Otro plays at West Wednesdays in Amsterdam. Interesting program and it’s free, hope to see you!
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Fading Groud reviewed
First review of the Fading Ground cd by Josué Amador, Dirar Kalash and myself by Frans de Waard in Vital Weekly 1096: None of these names sound very Dutch but I believe they all live and work in The Hague, The Netherlands, and of the three I recognized only Arvind Ganga, who plays electric guitar…
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Asian adventures
In august and september I went to Asia. It’s not really necessary to say .. it was amazing. My first show was at Jam cafe in Bangkok, where I shared the night with four local experimental acts: Acid Wall, F-, Otto Shane, Hon Narongrit, and Kota Taki. Wonderful night, and great to meet so many…
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Fading Ground
New cd “Fading Ground” was released last august. This is a collaboration of Josué Amador on guitar and objects, Dirar Kalash on electric violin and electronics, and myself. Five improvisations in about 45 minutes, with strange music somewhere between noise, drones, free music, and psychedelics, played with a free rock spirit. Available through Dirar’s Al…