SEPT/OCT. 2008
Sep 21, 2008

Hello Everybody,
  Here is the latest Brazzaville news:

FAR EAST!!!!!

- I played 3 shows in the Russian Far East. 2 in Vladivostok and 1 in Khabarovsk.  It was so much fun to be out there again.  The Far East is really one of my favorite regions of Russia.  It is so magical.  I swam in the sea and saw thousands of star fish and sea urchins. The shows in Vladivostok were kind of part of the Pacific Meridian Film Festival.  I met lots of interesting people.  There were directors, actors, writers and producers from all over the world.  We all stayed in a worn out Soviet Era hotel called the Vladivostok.  It had amazing views of the sea and all the freighters in the harbor. I was accompanied by friend Oleg, a great keyboard player from Novosibirsk. He is a lovely guy.  He had never seen the sea before. Ruslan, my good friend who had been working on a radio station in the arctic circle (Chukotka!) came back to Vlad and arranged all the shows for me.

 

OCTOBER TOUR

-Well all the dates are set for the October tour in Russia. We will be playing Ekaterinburg, Samara, Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Rostov and Kazan.  There might be a couple of other shows as well but they will be a surprise.  I am very excited about this tour as it will feature a different cast of characters than the last few tours.  I am bringing kenny Lyon out from LA. He is Brazzaville's original guitar player from years ago and a very close friend of mine.  On keys will be Oleg from Novosibirsk, one of the best keyboard players I have ever played with.  Ramon will be coming with my from Barcelona to play drums and Alsou, the beautiful violinist from Moscow will be with us on most of the shows as well. All the dates are available on the tour page or at our myspace page.

 

DVD 

Dr. Tinkoff and I should be finishing up the DVD in the next couple of weeks.  I think it will be a double DVD.  It has some fun footage on it.

 

 

 

NEWS, NEWS, NEWS
Sep 05, 2008

RUSSIAN FAR EAST SHOWS
I will be heading to the Russian Far East next week. I have been asked to play at the Vladivostok Film Festival and the great Nebo Club in Kabarovsk. I really like the Far east and can't wait to spend a few days out there.

BRAZZAVILLE DVD
I have been working with the great Dr. Tikov, renaissance man and proud resident of Barcelona. We have been putting together the Brazzaville DVD. It looks like it will be a double DVD in the end. There is a good amount of live footage, TV shows, some strolling through Barcelona, music videos and even some rehearsal footage at Calle Casanova. It should be all finished and released by early next year.

OCTOBER SHOWS
We're planning a full band tour in Russia in October. The final list of cities is still being drawn up but hopefully we'll get to hit many of our favorites.

TURKEY
There is talk of a possible show in Istanbul on Jan. 16th of 2009. If that happens, I will take the opportunity to stay a while longer to record an album with Deniz Culyan from Portecho. We are going to record a bunch of Brazzaville songs using all Turkish musicians. I think it could be a very interesting collaboration. If this ends up happening, we may try to play a few gigs together with some of the Turkish folks.

 

 

BRAZZA NEWS
Aug 02, 2008

Hello Everyone,
It was great to visit the US. We played some fun shows out there. it was a lot of fun to play with some old friends again. The posters that Mat Daly made for us are really wonderful. Here are some news highlights about what is coming up in the world of Brazzaville:

-21st Century Girl will be released in the US on Parasol/Bus Stop Label on Sept. 8th.

-The interview/live session we recorded at WXPN in Philadelphia for World Cafe w/ David Dye will be broadcast on Sept. 30th on most NPR stations in the US

-The Brazzaville DVD/audio CD with B sides etc. should be finished by this fall.

-The Clouds In Camarillo (w/Minerva) is on over 64 radio stations across Russia and has been played more than 25,000 times in the past few months. It remains in the top 10 on Radio Maximum.

-We are still hoping to record a CD with Turkish musicians but that plan seems to have stalled for the moment.

-We are planning a big Russian tour for the fall. The cities that we are hoping to hit if all goes well should include Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Kaliningrad, Novosibirsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Vladivostok and Khabarovsk. We will post all shows and dates as they are confirmed.

-There might be some slight movement with the ship tour.

-There are some new songs in the works, some of which will be played at the upcoming shows.

-We have posted 6 brand new songs from the new CD on our myspace page.

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