Nov. 13 – Protvino, Music School
Nov. 14 – Tula, Tipographia event space
Nov. 15 – Voronezh, Petrovsky book club
Nov. 16 – Nizhny Novgorod, DKRT
Nov. 17 – Izhevsk, Gryphon art space
Nov. 18 – Dolgoprudny, MFTI (MIPT) concert hall
Nov. 19 – Samara, DKZH
Nov. 20 – Ufa, City Jazz Club
Nov. 21 – Yekaterinburg, EverJazz
Nov. 22 – Moscow, DOM culture center
Nov. 23 – Tomsk, Aelita
Nov. 24 – Novosibirsk, Pobeda
Nov. 25 – Krasnoyarsk, State Institute of Arts
Nov. 26 – Dubna, Arhiteatr Media Lounge
Tape Notes made a podcast about the making of Violence, featuring an interview with Justin, Eliot and I. “Listen to find out what an Ed ‘weasel’ is and why many were brutally culled by Leo, why Tom is the easiest vocalist in the world to record, and why Justin’s guitar solos are more ‘Top Gun’ than they are ‘Joey Santiago’.”
Also, I’ve been preparing for a 2-week solo tour of Russia in November. It’ll feature a framework of improvising environments that I’ve made in Ableton, where all sounds including drums come directly from the guitar, live with no looping. I’ve spent much of the last 6 months developing it and I’m excited to finally be doing shows.
Sample of logistical arrangements from my dear friend Iouri Lnogradski, heroic mastermind behind the Muzenergo tours of Russia: Connection to Izhevsk, really a bit insane as the train I was hoping for is cancelled for ever and we cannot change dates. They drive you after the gig (2 hours) to small station at Arzamas and help to get train 01:50-12:09 (10 hours to go), of 20 EUR in 4-beds. Then you’re picked up and yet 1 hour of driving to Izhevsk. I asked from local promoter if that’s possible to mount the only remained direct train but it leaves at 20:48, and even with a gig starting 19:00 strict and lasting till 20:00 strict, I doubt he’ll accept that idea. Sorry, sorry, sorry :((
An album will probably be made out of the live recordings. Dates to follow shortly.
Baikalsk
I’ve been doing quite a bit of mixing work over the last month – starting finally to enjoy it after 10 years or so – for a really talented artist from Poland called MIN-t, The Magic Lantern – one of my favourite bands whose first record I was involved with 10 years ago, and the Ligeti Quartet whose record of throat-singing arrangements by Christian Mason is a work of demented genius.
I worked with Wild Beasts on ‘Present Tense’, co-producing with Lexxx. This is the first solo work from Hayden – I produced and Lexxx mixed. More to come… and more info here.
A couple of years ago Brian Eno invited me to go with him to a meeting in Piccadilly about a mysterious film project called Dau. What I saw there left me in no doubt that the project is the most exciting thing to happen in cinema in my lifetime – though it goes way beyond cinema.
I was involved in some of the music that Brian contributed. Dau recently opened in Paris – more info here.
Congratulations Guster! ‘Look Alive’ is out today. We had such a blast making this almost a year ago in Calgary, Montreal and NY. I’m so glad it’s now out in the world.
