Manafonistas

FULL LIVE

Carla Bley Trio
16. Mai – München, Unterfahrt

Habib Koité
23. Oktober – Helmbrechts, Kulturwelten

Nik Bärtsch’s RONIN
22. November – Jena, Kulturbahnhof

Shai Maestro Trio
30. November – Nürnberg, Kulturwerkstatt auf AEG

HALF LIVE

Klavierabend Daniil Trifonov – Beethoven, Schumann, Prokofiev
21. Februar – Digital Concerthall der Berliner Philharmoniker

Peter Tschaikowsky, Sinfonie No. 5 in e-Moll
9. März – Digital Concerthall der Berliner Philharmoniker
Berliner Philharmoniker, Dirigent Kirill Petrenko

RONIN RHYTHM RECORDS

Nach dem Konzert von RONIN in Jena besuchte ich im virtuellen Raum Nik Bärtsch’s Welt und machte erstaunliche Entdeckungen

IKARUS – Chronosome
Ronin Rhythm Records – RON 016

Ingrid Lukas – We Need to Repeat
Ronin Rhythm Records – RON 008

Sha’s Banryu – Chessboxing Volume One
Ronin Rhythm Records – RON 007

CRAZY

zeitkratzer Performs Songs from the Albums „Kraftwerk“ and „Kraftwerk 2“
zeitkratzer Records – zkr0021

zeitkratzer – Neue Volksmusik
zeitkratzer Records – zkr0014

I’ve not been listening to albums specifically from this year. I even forgot that Pino Palladino/Blake Mills’s Notes With Attachments came out in 2021. It’s a great album in terms of compositional form. Musically it’s very different, but it reminds me of the place I was in when I started to put together Sons Of Kemet’s Black To The Future. I love its warm, organic atmosphere. Madlib’s Sound Ancestors contains one of my favourite tunes of recent memory – Road Of The Lonely Ones.I’ve listened to that more times than I’d like to admit. The album is such a deep work, I can tell it’ll keep growing on me.

I’ve been learning the shakuhachi flute, so I’ve been listening a lot to Watazumi Doso Roshi too. He’s a Japanese master shakuhachi player. He doesn’t specifically consider himself a musician, but uses music as a meditation and spiritual exercise in order to connect with nature, in the zen tradition. Before I started listening to Hotchiku [1968] I had this idea it would be this sort of passive, new age-y background music. It’s not at all. It’s pretty turbulent, unpredictable and full of dynamism. You can really feel the emotion, really sense the natural world.

Wilco: Ode to Joy

Neil Young: Colorado

Robert Forster: Crazy Jane on the day of judgement

Lucinda Williams: East side of town

Souad Massi: Ghir Enta

Loredana Bertè: Cosa ti aspetti di me

Sophie Hunger: Spaghetti mit Spinat

Ludwig Hirsch: Komm grosser schwarzer Vogel

Hannes Wader: Am Fluss

P.J. Harvey: Kamikaze

k.d. lang: Wash me clean

Annie Lennox: Why

Captain Beerheart: Sheriff of Hong Kong

Schostakowitsch: Cello2 op.126

Pavarotti, Brian Eno, Bono: Miss Sarajewo