Spring Any Day Now

I'm living in Munich for six years now, quite exactly, and have never been to a concert at Jazzclub Unterfahrt, the one and only regular...

This is my father-in-law singing some Chinese opera.

As readers of this blog know, I had two unsuccessful approaches to Brötzmann's music recently. It wouldn't be fair to this great art...

Just tried the speech function of the Google translator for the first time. Somehow cool to have such a function, but also strangely remindi...

There's a new article on All About Jazz about Brötzmann's Chicago tentet, where Lloyd Peterson writes things like this: Importantly...

There's a husband of the year award going on at my wife's blog. No, no, don't worry, I'm not the one. But it's still wor...

Software for recording internet streaming radio stations is an old hat. I've tried some in the past, but was never satisfied with any of...

Hayden Chisholm is working on a documentary film on German folk music. What he writes on his blog about a bandoneon player in the Erzgebirge...

(image by Mazen Kerbaj, from his blog ) I am such a slacker when it comes to writing. It always seems to difficult to finish things. There...

Today the official Moers Festival website has posted a 25-minute video showcasing short snippets of the performances. It brings back so many...

( beautiful photos here and here ) Paolo Angeli 's project Sponde di Passione was mostly serving folk-based drone structures and adding...

( more photos on the festival website, quite wonderful ones) Venit, videt, vicit – Moers veteran Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet rocke...

(again I cannot provide a good photo - but the festival site can) Another talented young group presented in Moers, Schneeweiss und Rosenrot...

(If you want to see good photos of the concert, check here) I think I have a soft spot for left-wing imaginary folklore. This big band was ...

That was breathtaking! The concert conditions were not ideal for us - only because we were too stupid to go up to the gallery and watch down...

After we had been so highly enthused about Saturday's morning session , we didn't get an early enough start on Sunday and only arriv...

We didn't even take a photo of Dobet Gnahoré . She was on the one hand the dance-act for this Saturday night - and as such she was much ...

On the whole my reviews of Moers seem sometimes a bit too critical to me. I think I haven't made it clear enough yet how much I enjoyed ...

For a German it is a bit disturbing how similar Bill Frisell and Harald Schmidt look like. They even smile in a similar way. So, I cannot ...

The internet media says: "pioneering, exciting, explore idiosyncratic sound, highly listenable, contemporary classical music, urban rhy...