Monday, January 22, 2007

buenos aires > tokyo > kyoto

1/1/07

happy new year!

flying over the hudson bay. I flew from buenos aires to washington last night, spending new year's eve on the plane (no celebration took place...nothing was served on the plane at 0:00hs....no champagne...I sent good wishes to beloved ones), 5 hours at red carpet club ... then took a flight from washington to tokyo, hoping to get some sleep on this flight. I found a very good sandwich bar at dulles airport: the potbelly's across gate c1.

2/1/07

I arrived in tokyo around 16:00hs after a very long flight! my suitcase didn't make it so united will deliver it tomorrow to the hotel. limousine bus to shibuya city hotel. my telecaster was waiting for me at the hotel room. yes!
walked around, necessary shopping and off to bed

3/1/07 tokio

no sleep...

visited music stores, found an internet cafe, walked around. dinner with ariake and emiko got cancelled, changed strings on telecaster, noodle dinner and off to bed.

4/1/07 tokio> kyoto

yes!!! slept 7 hours!!! packed, practiced, walked around, sent cds at the post. cds shopping at tower records: joanna newsom, mingus and woodstock festival dvd (on sale)

walked to shibuya station. shinkansen train to kyoto. subway and taxi to seiichi's. I'm staying at his apartment. luxurious. noodle soup and beer with yamamoto san. I'm tired. time to bed.







seiichi liked moni's painitngs. one of them will stay in kyoto

I remembered an important experience during a performance last year



5/1/07 kyoto

9:38 it was difficult to get warm last night. the sweatshirt with hood I bought at don quijote helped.

coffee at donq cafe, visited seiichi. back to the apt to setup and practice. walk to ginkakuji, the silver palace. walk back. okonomiyaki. more practice. noodles. called shinku and moni. uma told me papu. more practice. I worked on the kaoss pad presets and at this point I have some confidence with my new boss br2 loop station.




23:14 time to call it a day. I'm exhausted. a glass of sake to warm up and off to bed. it's raining in kyoto. listening to caetano veloso's ce.

6/1/07 kyoto

slept well. woke up at 6:00 but kept going until 8:30. it's raining. coffee and beans sweet and then practice.

ideas on moni's works

11:34 2 hours of practice. interesting loops. the pad motion switch on the kaoss pad is broken. ouch.

I like caetano's new album.

memories of my days at the cottage, where I used to be by myself ...regularly practicing and looping... for months.....here in kyoto is also cold and it's raining hard

reading aldous huxley

in the afternoon seiichi and I took a train to osaka. seiichi played at bears, a very good performance of yamamoto the singer songwriter.




Sunday, December 31, 2006

happy new year!

another busy week...

...recordings with la national film chamber orchestra at canal 7 on tuesday, guitar lessons on wednesday, rehearsal with francisco on thursday, 2 shows with la national film chamber orchestra at malba on friday and a "happy new year" dinner at edelweiss with moni, charly, maria eva and matias; 6 hous of recordings at canal 7 with la national film chamber orchestra and a show with bochaton at teatro santa maria on saturday (wonderful venue...hot show)...packed my suitcases this morning...

exhausted

happy new year!!!!!!!

Sunday, December 24, 2006

happy

happy christmas!

Saturday, December 23, 2006

saturday again

the show with bochaton last saturday was so hot. unbearable. my fender twin sounded terrible and had problems with the reverb system. I suffered. someone from the audience demanded the return of los peligrosos gorriones' original guitarist. I don't know him and never heard his playing, I do not wish to try to play like him. if he played with francisco he must have been good. actually I never heard a single recording by los peligrosos gorriones.

on sunday we drove to rosario with the girls to visit my mother.

this week I visited charly and we listened together to the master of his new cd. it's stunning. powerful, new, rocking, musical. congratulations charly!!!!!!! we also listened to beatles' love.

my accomodation in tokyo and kyoto has been arranged this week, also my meeting with my telecaster in tokyo. thanks hajime!

roxana amed gave me a copy of entremundos. I'm glad to be part of it and having had the chance to work with her and pedro aznar.

today christmas shopping on santa fe avenue and a visit to samalea, who is recovering well from surgery.

yesterday I played with futura bold, always a pleasure to share music with jorge and sr phelps. photo courtesy of futura bold, I believe it was taken by karina vargas.

Saturday, December 16, 2006

saturday

last 3 weeks I have been very busy, with 24 shows with la national film chamber orchestra at malba and cinema schools + tv shows recordings at canal 7 (filmoteca is currectly airing sundays at 17:00 at public tv canal 7 argentina) also with la nfco + shows with flopa + shows with bochaton + organization for my upcoming japanese tour + guitar lessons + emails + loads of personal stuff

last sunday I went to see miranda! concert with my nephew. I enjoyed it.

the energy of the christmas season is apparent to me and I welcome it

I rarely find "positive" things in the newspapers, but today I found an interview to mr golijov (a remarkable composer) and an article by jon pareles at new york times

I have been invited to participate with my music in 3 movies projects in one week. only one of them I saw images of so far and they were excellent. so is the script. in a couple of hours I will be presented images of the second and I look forwards to the third one.

filmoteca, the tv program at canal 7 that features la national film chamber orchestra, will continue on and will air monday to fridays (!). lots of work coming up.

last night I played with flopa at el nacional. an acoustic show (I played my acoustic gtrs and matias played piano)

tonight I will play with bochaton at festival buen dia (in palermo) and I later hope to visit charly for a private audition of the completed cd (it has been completed and mastered last week in new york by andrew oldham)

here's a fragment from an interview from pagina 12 (www.pagina12.com.ar) published last week:

“La música no debe ser rara para ser distinta”


Por Roque Casciero

Fernando Kabusacki no puede estar mucho tiempo sin una guitarra en las manos. No es que se le note la ansiedad, ni nada de eso: su estampa alta y sonriente irradia una calma poco frecuente entre los músicos, especialmente cuando está cerca de su hija Uma, de dos años. Pero no hay más que leer el blog que mantiene como una especie de diario personal (“para desmitificar un poco la figura del músico”) para notar que no pasa un día sin que el ex Gauchos Alemanes participe de alguna grabación, zapada o concierto, tanto propio como de alguno de sus amigos. Una rápida mirada al presente de Kabusacki: acaba de publicar un disco doble, The Flower + The Radio (uno de ambient y otro más “rockero”, pero grabados en la misma época); le pone música en vivo a películas mudas al frente de la National Film Chamber Orchestra; gira por Europa y Japón, donde toca seguido con miembros de los ruidosos Boredoms, y participa de conciertos de Charly García, Flopa y Francisco Bochatón. “Hay gente que sale a cenar a la casa de uno o va al cumpleaños de otro, pero yo no hago eso”, explica el guitarrista. “Lo que hago es tocar todo el tiempo: mi contacto con la gente es ése. No soy una persona muy social, salvo con la gente con la que toco. No es algo que haya buscado, pero me di cuenta de que es así. Es que siento que muchas veces puedo comunicarme mejor a través de la música que con las palabras. Sobre todo si uno toca con músicos genuinos, no de yeites o muletillas. Es verdad que en la música no hay fronteras, por más que suene a cliché. Un día puedo haber tocado con Liliana Herrero y al siguiente con Vernon Reid, porque para la música es una sola. Para mí Bartok es rock and roll, mucho más rock and roll que Callejeros. Me interesa la esencia de la música.”

–¿Por qué se conoce más su trabajo fuera de la Argentina que aquí?

–Es coherente, de alguna manera, porque afuera hay una apertura a ciertas músicas que encuentro muy poco en la Argentina. Además tengo mucha afinidad con músicas de afuera, cosa que no me pasa con músicos ni con públicos argentinos. Cuando salgo de la Argentina siento que estaba en una burbuja y que me estaba perdiendo montones de cosas. Hay todo un mundo que en la Argentina no conoce más que un número limitado de gente. Y en la burbuja cerrada que es la Argentina no me encuentro, en general, por eso es coherente que pasen más cosas afuera que acá. Acá todo está muy fragmentado: está el rock, la vanguardia, la electrónica... Pero la música, así, en general, no está... Y a mí me gusta moverme por la música: ése es mi territorio.

–Pero usted se considera un guitarrista de rock.

–Sí. Es que a mí me gustan los Who... No soy un músico experimental, por más que haga cosas raras o distintas. Pero no me siento cómodo con los músicos experimentales argentinos ni creo que la música tenga que ser rara para ser distinta. Sólo tiene que tener algo de novedoso, de original. Y en general me siento más cómodo con el rock. La mayoría de los músicos argentinos con los que toco son de rock: Flopa, Bochatón, Charly... Y afuera también: Yamamoto y Yoshimi (Boredoms), con quienes voy a tocar en Japón, hicieron giras con Nirvana.

–Igual, por más que toque con bandas de rock, jamás hace un riff o un solo de pentatónica.

–Es que no me salen... (risas) O sea, sé hacerlo, busco un sonido distorsionado y puedo tocarlo, pero no es lo mío. No me siento cómodo. Charly lo sabe: cuando hay que hacer un solo, lo hace Kiuje (Hayashida), que es un campeón en eso.

–Su complicidad con Charly García es altamente impensada.

–Sí, pero también es sumamente coherente. Charly es “la” amplitud, tiene una cabeza sumamente abierta. Y el respeto que le tengo es infinito. A veces me aterra que, con respecto a él, sea tan condenable la desprolijidad en el rock y no sea más condenable la insipidez. Todo el rock que hay ahora, con el que no pasa nada, está totalmente muerto, y nadie condena eso en los medios. Pero sale Charly haciendo bardo en un concierto de rock y dicen que está loco, desprolijo.

–¿Tan insípido le parece el rock argentino?

–No encuentro nada que me parezca real, verdadero.

–Pero toca con algunos rockeros argentinos.

–Sí, sí. Para mí, Flopa y Bochatón son de las cosas más importantes que están pasando en el rock argentino. Tampoco es que salgo todas las noches ni que investigo, pero cada vez que voy a ver algo, incluso cuando me lo recomiendan, nunca me mueven.

–¿Cómo surgió el contacto con García?

–A través de María Gabriela (Epumer). Charly es principalmente un amigo. Qué sé yo, a Charly nunca voy a mentirle, nunca voy a hacer algo con él por dinero... Y tal vez él lo valore. Además, tenemos muchas coincidencias musicales: a ambos nos gustan los Who, entre otras bandas. Y algo que él siempre dice es que tenemos muy buena química. Para este disco interminable hemos hecho sesiones los dos solos y nos prendíamos fuego. Pensaba: “Nunca en mi vida toqué esto”. Era una combustión, pasaba algo: es química.

–Incluso en los temas en los que él participa en The Radio, están en una confluencia: usted más encendido y él más ordenado.

–Sí. Sin ponerme esotérico, hay una química importante con él. Y a él también le pasa, me lo ha dicho. En muchas sesiones del disco nuevo de Charly él grabó un montón de sesiones de teclados conmigo tocando, porque decía que así se arengaba. Eso, más allá que hay dos millones de guitarras mías que desaparecieron (risas). Pero para él estaba bueno tocar conmigo. Y eso es inexplicable.

–Desde su época en Los Gauchos Alemanes, su imagen quedó muy ligada a la de Robert Fripp, que había sido maestro de los tres. Sin embargo, su presente es muy diferente.

–Sí, sí. Para mí Fripp fue y es muy importante en mi vida, aprendí muchísimo de él y logré cosas con la guitarra que no habría logrado sin él. Pero me llevó muchos años despegarme musicalmente. Antes sentía que tenía que imitarlo tanto en su forma de tocar como en la de hacer las cosas, hasta que encontré mi propia voz. Para mucha gente soy el Fripp argentino o algo así. Es gracioso, porque hace un par de años estábamos en el Luna Park y me presentó a Joe Satriani, y en chiste le dijo: “Yo soy el Kabusacki inglés” (risas).

–Con Los Gauchos Alemanes hasta se vestían parecido a Fripp.

–Claro, yo tenía una identificación total. Fripp era mi “ejemplo”, de quien aprendía. Además, estaba mucho con él, así que era natural que eso sucediera. De todos modos, hay un aspecto de Fripp que mucha gente no conoce y que sigue siendo ejemplar para mí: él tocaba con los Damned, con Blondie, con los Talking Heads, tocó en G3, con las Roches. No era King Crimson y chau. En ese aspecto sigue siendo un ejemplo de apertura, de amplitud, de no ser un guitarrista de música de vanguardia o de jazz o de rock, sino un guitarrista de música.

–Usted estudió en los seminarios Guitar Craft de Fripp en Inglaterra. ¿Por qué se fue para allá?

–Porque en Rosario, donde vivía, me sentía un marciano y porque necesitaba encontrarme con la gente que venía escuchando. Entre otras cosas, Fripp, Phil Manzanera (guitarrista de Roxy Music), Brian Eno... Pensé: “Tengo que ir a conocer a esta gente, no puedo quedarme en Rosario pegando posters en mi pieza de estos tipos si lo que quiero es tocar con ellos”. Y en 1988 me fui a buscarlos. Incluso probé si podía hacer algo en Buenos Aires y no tenía por dónde entrar. Entonces decidí irme a Inglaterra, a conocerlos directamente a ellos. A los cinco días tenía una carta de Fripp que decía que se había enterado de que estaba buscándolo, y a la semana me había hecho amigo de Phil Manzanera. El me prestó una guitarra para que pudiera tocar y me invitó a tocar con él en un disco. Me sabía todos los solos de Manzanera y él no lo podía creer. Y resulta que el hermano de Manzanera es tucumano...

–¿Cómo fue que le pasó todo eso tan rápido?

–Fui de caradura total. Copié la dirección de los sellos de los discos, fui y toqué el timbre. En EG Records dije: “Miren, llegué ayer de la Argentina, vine a buscar a Robert Fripp”. ¿Qué podía perder? En Rosario no tenía nada para hacer, en Buenos Aires eran todos pop stars... Por eso me fui a buscar a los tipos y me di cuenta de que ellos no eran así. O sea, son más rock stars que cualquiera, pero no tienen la pose. Con Manzanera fue así: tocaba en un show chiquito, en Londres, y con mi astucia argentina fui al camarín, preguntando por Phil como si fuera amigo (risas). Y cuando pude hablar con él me invitó a su estudio, donde agarré la viola y le tocaba todos los temas de él. Para mí el tipo es una gloria, sus discos solistas son alucinantes.

–¿Cuánto tiempo estuvo en Inglaterra?

–Volví recién en el ’92, porque me enganché con los cursos de Fripp. La atracción que sentía por esa música era más allá de lo normal, por eso tenía que ir a conocerlos. Fui sin un mango, así que no tenía para comprar discos. Escuchaba el programa de John Peel: ahí descubrí a PJ Harvey y a Björk, no lo podía creer. Estaba ilegal, viviendo con unos brasileños en un cuartucho. A la mañana repartía diarios, después hacía las camas y limpiaba en un hotel, y a la noche era mozo en Pizza Hut.

–Todo un ejemplo de determinación.

–Sí, creo que hay que ir para adelante con las cosas. Supongo que ahora debe estar más difícil, pero cuando uno ve algo claro, hay que hacerlo.

–En su página web figuran todos los músicos con los que trabajó. Y al lado de Charly García y Fripp figura... ¡Pablo Granados!

–A los 18 años, cuando vivía en Rosario, tocaba en una banda pop llamada Hola y el tecladista era Pablo Granados. Después fui violero suyo cuando salió como solista. En una época éramos amigos. Incluso llegó a ofrecerme hacer un programa juntos. Quería hacer un programa de cachadas a la gente. Le dije que no porque no tengo cara para eso, pero él era un caradura que iba al frente. El tenía una onda medio Fito, porque era muy fan de Fito y Charly. Estaba bueno lo que hacía. No sé si tengo grabaciones, pero fotos sí: él cantando y yo tocando la guitarra... ¡al re palo!

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

no breaks

day to day... photos and stories to be posted soon...

monday: la national film chamber orchestra resorded at canal 7

recordings with charly in the evening in a very nice studio: santito. I played several guitars on lennon's watching the wheels and stuff for the end of the record. back home at 5:30am.

tuesday: kabusacki improv gig at correo central, with matias on keyboards.

wednesday: la national film chamber orchestra at IUNA, we played 2 buster keaton films

thursday: la national film chamber orchestra at malba: tod browning films

friday: la national film chamber orchestra at malba. tod browning films in the evening and the ghost of the opera in the evening. back home at 3:00 am

saturday: charly garcia & the prostitution in cordoba. we rocked, but charly was hit and his ribs got hurt.


















sunday: travelling day

monday: la national film chamber orchestra recorded at canal 7

more soon

Saturday, November 18, 2006

new order

thursday: rehearsal with flopa in the evening. an emergencly substitute bass player in the band: mr fosforo

friday: reheasal with francisco in the morning, one show with la national film chamber orchestra at malba and a very good show with flopa at plasma. we rocked. my hat helped.

today I played with la nfco at malba (2 shows) and now I'm off to see new order

tomorrow is my day off, with recordings with charly in the evening

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

busy tuesday



happy to see alejandro's photos from our tour in japan last july

woke up at 8:00

dropped baby at grandmoher's

good rehearsal with vertigo colectivo for our upcoming show at paseo la plaza. then coffee and light yoghurt at el banderin.

visit to maria eva albistur, ideas for joint ventures

interview at canal 9 for especiales pop

picked up baby from grandmother's

visited charly in the evening, recorded more guitars and watched part of the producers. cordoba is on.

back home at 1:20

Monday, November 13, 2006

codigo pais

last thursday I played with flopa a cozy duo set at codigo pais, a design/arts/music festival in buenos aires.

after us played bicicletas (a band I had some expectations on) and then lucas marti (wonderful show).

after lucas, i played with francisco bochaton, a hot show, generous audience. I wish my guitar sounded louder.
















weekend off with the family at the beach. we saw a horrible car accident on the highway on our way back.

back home safe

at home a message from ch. and the prostitution. here's the bold head with headphones accompanying charly in pinamar earlier this year. photo courtesy of www.fotolog.com/tatinsnm

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

bs as mendoza bs as



on friday night I played with flopa at plasma, with ariel minimal as guest. a very good sounding venue. flopa & the band sounded good. c-bass was in the audience. dinner with him at pippo afterwards.

I took the airplane to mendoza at 6:40hs in the morning, so I had to be at ezeiza airport at 5:40, so I left home in a taxi at 5:00hs ao I woke up at 5:00hs. since I got to bed after packing at 3:30hs I slept just over 1 hour. tough.

bochaton & band visited a wonderful park in the afternoon. the roaring of a football stadium was the soundtrack of this visit.




in mendoza I played with francisco bochaton at sumistica. full house. hot audience. the band was on.

on sunday I visited the schwutkes. wonderful to see them!!!!!!! coffe with delicious cookies. francisco & band took the bus at 19:30. at 21:00 a bullet hit one of the windows of the bus. an attempt of robbery. luckily nobody got injured. the bus went on to a gas station further down the highway, where the police came and the window was covered with carboard and tape. dinner on the road. some sleep on the bus. back home at 11hs for breakfast with the girls.

on monday night I played with vertigo colectivo at pipo lernoud's birthday party. after us a stunnning blues trio: skay, alejandro medina and rodolfo garcia. a master blues guitar lesson by skay!!! back home late.


on tuesday I played at nada sucede 2 veces, an improvised concert at a nice small auditorium, with matias, fer isella, gomez and maxi demo. something was very good about this performance but I can't say exactly what it was.



Thursday, November 02, 2006

rehearsal, studio and lessons



tuesday rehearsal with bochaton in the morning (reviewed new songs and prepared for our upcoming show in mendoza), lunch with the band at the parrilla next door, interview at fm la tribu with ezequiel abalos and luis aranovsky, drove back home with little baby, then drove charly to the recording studio. he is working with andrew on the new cd, recording and mixing.

this photo by www.demoliendohoteles.com.ar (taken at teatro gran rex last week during a wonderful duet: play with fire)

guitar lessons and calls to travel agent re. tickets for japan.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006















On Saturday I played with Flopa at a festival in Palermo (photo courtesy of...), Gabo played before us and Minimal after us. Very nice to see kids in the audience. Moni and little baby were there, also Claudio Lafalce. It began to rain at the end of Minimal's show.

Friday: interview with Roque Casciero for Pagina 12 and a phone interview. Traffic was terrible.

Last weekend I played with La National Film Chamber Orchestra at Malba, music for Terge Vigen, a sweedish silent movie which I liked very much, a discovery.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

charly & the prostitution at gran rex




kabusacki

rehearsals, little rest and some time with the family during the weekend

monday: soundcheck at teatro gran rex at 18hs, showtime at 23hs. full house. despite his flu and fever, charly was prepared for a very good show and so was the band, but technical problems were strong...the headphones monitoring and radio transmission was bad so the show became unplayable at some points. there were very good moments of intense rock among the chaos, charly was on, a superb version of tony bennett's song and a great duet with andrew loog oldham and charly willing to go forward against all the odds. monitoring was feeble. deb was very good, doing all she could to support charly with backing vocals, which without good reference must have been hard...charly smashed guitars and amps at the end of the show. hot end! a huge marshall double stack fell on top of an unlucky fireman that was hiding there...in the dressing room charly was in great mood and did not allow anyone in, only the band and andrew. this upsetted many of his friends.

this wonderful photo was taken by matias chiarena, at www.fotolog.com/saynomore

back home around 4am, carrying gear, tired but in good mood. ate some fruit in the kitchen without making noise, then quietly to bed

the negativity of the press was huge, so was the enthusiasm of the audience and the heat of the show.

tuesday: walk with little baby, visited los chilenos at the hotel, charly is working with andrew loog oldham at home, g3 at luna park, a master class in guitar playing!!! a very enjoyable show.

great to see joe, mick and jeff. backstage I was introduced to mr eric johnson, whose playing I admire greatly. toast with jack daniels. walk back home on corrientes avenue. cool night.

Saturday, October 21, 2006

little sleep

played with bochaton at la trastienda (oct 15), full house. the band was on, my setup: washburn electric > rat > big muff > line 6 pod live xt > boss giga delay > marshall jcm 900, the first gig with this configuration. sounded great (particularly the buddah preset and the tremolo)

mother visited for the weekend

tuesday: sooner than I expected...rehearsals with charly began today. the band: kiuge, carlos, tonio and myself, with deborah on backing vocals. back home at 8:00am

wednesday: played with flopa at radio nacional, very enjoyable, although flopa was not very happy with her singing. I loved flopa playing electric! reharsal with charly afterwards, back home at 10:00am

thursday: recovery day. rehearsal with charly at night. back home at 10:00am




friday: learned perro andaluz in the afternoon, la congreso world templation at templum, then rehearsal with charly until 6:00am

ouch! I must save energy

today...rest in the afternoon and a show with la national film chamber orchestra at malba, possibly another rehearsal tonight, tbc.

charly garcia & the prostitution will be playing at teatro gran rex next monday


kabusacki

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

2 weeks

kabusacki

in the last 2 weeks I played with flopa at bar tunon, a duo set, with carlos alonso a ciudad konex, with la national film chamber orchestra at malba and at la noche de los museos and at canal 7 twice,

last sunday night I visited charly at home and listened to his mixed cd 3 times ...sounds wonderful...walls of sounds, stunning performances ... great work, I'm very happy that this record is about to see the stores, welll I hope

I notice that because I'm a musician some people expect me to be noisy and loud; in fact I'm very careful with sounds. and my neighbors are very insensitive and careless with sounds...slamming doors, talking very loud and making loud noises all the time, even late at night...perhaps they are musicians and i'm not...perhaps I must move somewhere else.

an article quoting me apperared in the new york times yesterday, I was interviewed last week, asked about juana molina and her work. I said marvels about her musicianship, surprisingly I was also asked at the end of the interview about her as a person. I froze and couldn't say a word. I could not speak, I remained quiet. as if I don't know her at all after such a long time working with her.

Saturday, September 30, 2006

september 24, bochaton, cordoba>buenos aires










from the venue straight to the hotel to pickup luggage and off to the bus station; the whole band is back to buenos aires. seating next to me on the bus also a callejeros fan. thankfully I had my Ipod with dylan's modern times in it. the guitars work amazed me. beauty, mastery! 11hs drive to buenos aires. here more photos: francisco and matias, our lodging place in villa maria, the backdoor of 990 club de arte, my pedals and villa 31 at sunset, welcoming us to buenos aires

Saturday, September 23, 2006

cordoba

kabusacki

short week in buenos aires: back from rosario with moni and baby on monday

tuesday visit to doctors, taking care of my health

wednesday: a day of guitar lessons and bus to villa maria in the evening

spoke to charly on the phone, he is in new york mixing the record with former rolling stones collaborator andrew oldham. he sounded excited about andrew and his work. he shared musical impressions, ideas and feelings on the music. suggested I fly to ny inmediately. I felt tempted. best wishes towards ny.

taxi to the bus staion at 22:30, moni waved good bye from the balcony. we travelled with sueter, miguel zavaleta's legendary band from the 80s, who were sharing the bill with us in villa maria. mz's sense of humour is remarkable and was most welcome on this hard trip

97% of the passengers on the bus were young fans of callejeros, very excited young kids ... for their band's first live appearance after the comagnon massacre. this was hard on me since, among other things, let aside ethics and other things, this bunch of people blindly praise a band whose music is highly offensive to my musical taste. the bunch's excitement cause the rage of the bus driver, who parked the bus at the side of the road, came up to them and shouted "if you guys don't shut up and remain quiet either I stop the bus right now or WE WILL CRASH (nos hacemos mierda were actually his words in spanish)". after this threat the crowd kept quiet.

nevertheles I couldn't sleep at all, I was scared.

the lodging in villa maria was feeble. the show was utterly windy, my guitar was misteriously charged with electricity and I couldn't touch the bridge without receiving electric shocks, the monitors were appaling, fran's bass out of tune, the audience apatethic but hey...there we were...at least we had a set list and empanadas in the dressing room were delicious.

dinner with the band and sueter was fun. the nightmares of our bus trip was subject of good jokes. thanks God there's humour

to bed early.

friday: asado by francisco at the house, siesta and bus to cordoba in the evening. another nighmarish trip which feature movie starring francella and lucia galan . at our arrival at the hotel the restaurant was already closed so we had to look for another restaurant.

life on the road

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Saturday



Leandro, Gorrion de Alma kindly sent me this photo of one of my strangest performances ever. On July 30 this year I played with Francisco Bochaton at La Trastienda one week after my appendix was removed. The surgeon reccomended to not make any physical effort for 2 weeks but I couldn't say no to Francisco's music, so I played seating on a chair, wearing a hood to feel more "protected". I had a terrible sense of vulnerability, weakness and also pain in my abdomen throughout the show. But also a feeling of "I have to be here, playing, no doubt, regardless of the surgery". I attempted a couple of songs standing but couldn't bear the pain. I wore trousers I would never wear on stage (Adidas jogging), the only ones I could fit...well...pijamas were my only other choice. Strange for a high action rock show, but the performance was very good and actually we rocked. Thanks Leandro for the photo!

Thursday: recordings with Francisco and band until late. Great new songs. Yes!

A very long day yesterday: La National Film Chamber Orchestra played at Canal 7 in the morning; to tyre shop to replace the back wheel that had been stolen from my car last week outside Concreto Studios (second time this happens to me in 5 months); then to the studio to listen to yesterday's recordings and pick up my amp; in the evening I played with La Congreso World Templation (with Mono Fontana, Ale Franov and Santiago Vazquez) at Templum. Full house. We booked our next show for October 20. Back home late.

My mobile phone was lost all day. I found it in the back of my car. relief.

Monday, September 11, 2006

la mujer que nacio vestida




friday: la mujer que nacio vestida, butoh dance performance by qui binetti at centro cultural borges. superb work! my music sounded nice there. the lights, projections and sound treatments were very good! later dinner with futura bold at vargas'

saturday: I played with mussa phelps and with carlos alonso at fuga jurasica. very exciting. later recordings with charly at maria's. suposedly the last song of the album.

sunday: rehearsal with flopa. new bass player in the band. powerful and potential.

Thursday, September 07, 2006

keep on going



here's a photo with flopa, courtesy of hers

august 31 was hectic: at 22:30 I played with flopa at centro cultural cooperacion. a duo lineup, 2 guitars. very intimate and nice show. for me is always a luxury to hear flopa sing and play her songs. playing with her is an unbelievable bonus. my setup: washburn red rocker> big muff> volume pedal> line6 dl4 delay modeller > fender pro junior amp

from ccc I ran into a taxi to centro cultural tasso, where everybody was waiting for me to arrive. so from the taxi straight to the stage to play with bochaton one of our hottest shows ever. shelley and her friend were there dancing. my setup: wasburn red rocker > rat > fuzz factory > roland dd20 delay > marshall jcm900