February 2007
Where do I start...well, February has been a blast. This month has been contrary to everything I whined about last year. I feel blessed...Cheers to the month of February!
I got my first myspace booking through a couple by the name of Frank and Stephanie, who hold sexy and classy theme parties. Frank contacted me on a Friday night, and Saturday evening I was improvising on top of DJ Luke Native's house tracks. I didn't have a chance to stick it out too long because I was on my way to a house party, but feel free to check out Monde Osé's myspace page: www.myspace.com/mondeose.
The next weekend, I shared the stage with Andrea Revel at the Wawa Show, an event masterminded by cabaret-pop-noir artist Amanda Mabro. It was a great evening, and you can read up more about it @ thewawashow.com.
Next on the agenda was Geoff Berner's sweeping into town. I had the chance to play at Casa Popolo and Wakefield's Blacksheep Inn as well. I met Bob Wiseman officially (after all we met two years ago when I was touring Ontario with both Geoff and Kris Demeanor...but none of us really remembers) and after being in their presence for merely two-three days, I feel inspired to write music and lyrics again. In March, Wayne Adams and I will be supporting Geoff at the Fuerth International Klezmer Festival in Germany. I am absolutely looking forward to playing with them.
While in Germany, I will have the opportunity to collaborate with another great improviser, violinist Albrecht Maurer. After throwing back and forth ideas about what we should do, we concluded the following:
„Die Idee zwei Violinen und eine Rhythmusgruppe zu einem Quartett zusammen zu stellen ist in der Aktuellen Musik nicht häufig anzutreffen. Doch was der Jazzdrummer Joe Baron mit 2 Gitarristen in der Frontline jüngst im Stadtgarten kreierte, überzeugte und insperierte mich spontan zu dieser ähnlichen Besetzung. Mit Brigitte Dajczer treffe ich erstmals eine Kanadische Geigerin, die mit polnischen Roots und einer Menge weltmusikalischen Wissen zusammen mit uns auf Entdeckungsreise geht“. Albrecht Maurer
„I really like the idea of placing two violins on either side of a drummer.
This opens up a space for dialogue between both violins, while the drums can shift to whichever focus/direction that presents itself. Since it is my
first time in Germany, and I am initially being flown out for only one show
(a Klezmer Music Festival in Furth), I'm looking to meet new musicians and hopefully open up the futureto new possibilities.“ Brigitte Dajczer
O.k....there's still more to soliloquy about, but I'll tastefully do that in the next entry.
I got my first myspace booking through a couple by the name of Frank and Stephanie, who hold sexy and classy theme parties. Frank contacted me on a Friday night, and Saturday evening I was improvising on top of DJ Luke Native's house tracks. I didn't have a chance to stick it out too long because I was on my way to a house party, but feel free to check out Monde Osé's myspace page: www.myspace.com/mondeose.
The next weekend, I shared the stage with Andrea Revel at the Wawa Show, an event masterminded by cabaret-pop-noir artist Amanda Mabro. It was a great evening, and you can read up more about it @ thewawashow.com.
Next on the agenda was Geoff Berner's sweeping into town. I had the chance to play at Casa Popolo and Wakefield's Blacksheep Inn as well. I met Bob Wiseman officially (after all we met two years ago when I was touring Ontario with both Geoff and Kris Demeanor...but none of us really remembers) and after being in their presence for merely two-three days, I feel inspired to write music and lyrics again. In March, Wayne Adams and I will be supporting Geoff at the Fuerth International Klezmer Festival in Germany. I am absolutely looking forward to playing with them.
While in Germany, I will have the opportunity to collaborate with another great improviser, violinist Albrecht Maurer. After throwing back and forth ideas about what we should do, we concluded the following:
„Die Idee zwei Violinen und eine Rhythmusgruppe zu einem Quartett zusammen zu stellen ist in der Aktuellen Musik nicht häufig anzutreffen. Doch was der Jazzdrummer Joe Baron mit 2 Gitarristen in der Frontline jüngst im Stadtgarten kreierte, überzeugte und insperierte mich spontan zu dieser ähnlichen Besetzung. Mit Brigitte Dajczer treffe ich erstmals eine Kanadische Geigerin, die mit polnischen Roots und einer Menge weltmusikalischen Wissen zusammen mit uns auf Entdeckungsreise geht“. Albrecht Maurer
„I really like the idea of placing two violins on either side of a drummer.
This opens up a space for dialogue between both violins, while the drums can shift to whichever focus/direction that presents itself. Since it is my
first time in Germany, and I am initially being flown out for only one show
(a Klezmer Music Festival in Furth), I'm looking to meet new musicians and hopefully open up the futureto new possibilities.“ Brigitte Dajczer
O.k....there's still more to soliloquy about, but I'll tastefully do that in the next entry.
