Berlin: Party
Last night, after a good bottle of wine, I ended up in Berlin’s most famous club Berghain, where parties start fridayevening and end around the time when the sun comes up on monday morning. Around me, a lot of people getting drunk and danced their lungs out, fueled by large quantities of drugs. The dj’s … Read more
Berlin: Emptyness
Berlin in sunny weather is like heaven on earth. This afternoon I walked for an hour at the old Tempelhof Airport, children were playing, middle aged guys were riding their bicycles up and down the runway. Halfway the main runway I met my 78 year old Turkish neighbour. We had coffee together and talked about … Read more
Bakel: Subtitles
The last days I worked on the Dutch subtitles for segments of two movies made by the Australian video-remix group Soda Jerk. They will present their movies “The Phoenix Portal” and “After The Rainbow” at the Rotterdam Art Fair, starting February 9th. If you happen to be in the neighbourhood, go and take a look … Read more
Moscow: Snow
After the concert I ate a small Russian meal with Alex, the booker. We had my favorite dish: vareniki, special russian dumplings. We kept our wodka cool by sticking it in the snow. The simple life.
Nijmegen: Coffee
I was never a coffeedrinker, but the last weeks I slowly started drinking coffee. It all started off with a small cup of espresso in Berlin and now, two weeks later, I am on 5 cups of coffee a day. I think I have to slow down again.
Heerlen: Deutsch
I am back in the south of the Netherlands. After last nights performance I took a short walk through Heerlen. Two girls asked me directions in German, another man started to talk to me in German as well. At the snackbar around the corner all the signs were in Dutch and German. In the supermarket … Read more
Nijmegen: Newspaper
A journalist wrote a column about me in todays regional newspaper “De Gelderlander.” In the column he writes about me not being on facebook, twitter and me not watching farmers datingshows on tv. I was wondering: how does he know all of that?
Nijmegen: Rough
The recording is going very well. At the moment we have the rough outlines of the 8 tracks that will be on the album. Some are loud and obnoxious, others are ballads with little sounds, fieldrecordings, vocals and ofcourse cello. Tomorrow we’ll work on the detailed mixes, adding new sounds and make sure we’ll get … Read more
Nijmegen: Fence
This morning children were waiting in front of the Albert Heijn supermarket, asking me and other customers for soccer playing cards, while standing behind a fence; else they would harass the customers too much… These are the moments you have to be patient with your heimat.
Nijmegen: Good
I am currently in the studio together with Audrey Chen. Today I’ve heard the most crazy sounds. The album will be good.
