Hey man. Thought I'd let you know that Steve Baczkowski and Ravi Padmanabha will be touring Europe in Fall 2009 as part of William Parker's Trance Quartet.

van Wissem- good choice!

I hope to go there and see Sunburned, but it's quite a long drive from where I live. (About for hours,... so maybe when the day comes I might be to lazy to go to Hasselt).

Say: Do you live near Hasselt, where they do all those great gigs?

For example: Soon you'll have James Blackshaw and I guess he'll never play in Germany.

I wanted to visit KRAAK last year but then Charles Gocher died and I decided to stay at home... but I get newsletters and can see, that all the cool acts come to your little country. And you got bands like Silvester Anfang... and yes, there are some cool german acts, but there is not much happening (like good concerts etc.) For example I watched GHQ/Tom Carter in Cologne in front of 10 people!

Well, here we have one of the happy neighbours from belgium - land of the fabulous KRAAK Festival and other musical adventures. Greetings from Germany (a.k.a. musical wasteland, mostly).

wow, looks like belgium is the place to be for hearing great music just now.

how was yximalloo? a great performer/person/freak. You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it. - Cecil Taylor

You might also check out www.elevenhawks.com ; I think Will Redman might have a few copies of the CD-R he and Steve put out last year.

He's an acquaintance, but I no longer live in Buffalo. Steve is the music curator for an arts organization there and consistently books top-notch acts (a few years ago, Brotz's Die Like a Dog Quartet was in town for three days). Steve & Ravi have a new album coning out on Important Records with Robert Dick.

Nice avatar. Steve Baczkowski is from my hometown of Buffalo, NY.

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