April 28, 2023

As the Spring season winds up and Summer beckons, there are some great shows I have coming up. The older I get, the longer it takes to recover, physically and mentally, from these little tours I do. The little flash tour with Sapient Paradox was really a blast. It was very intense because it was kind of last minute with the planning, but the music that came out and the people we met made it all worth it!!

Now, onward and upward.

May 3 Budapest w/ Freak the Horns A fun band where we play a mix of 60s/70s funk-jazz and a bunch of indie rock tunes that we play pretty true to the original recordings, just using horns for the melodies, instead of vocals.

May 5 Cosmic Cluster @ Központ w/ Sokkal Mássab opening up.

May 11 Cosmic Cluster @ No Milk Today in Szeged, Hungary

March 31, 2023

On April 9th I will be flying (sadly, because I could not get the right train ticket booked) to Amsterdam, where I will do a show with a bunch of great brass players at ZAAL 100, a really interesting venue in the heart of the city. I will be joined by the great Italian trombonist Salvoandrea Lucifora and Dutch trombonist Joost Buis, as well as the great Australian trumpeter Felicity Provan and many others! It will be a wall of brass.

On the 10th, I will be doing a short recording session and exploration of various electronic pathways with electronic artist Zeynep Sarikartal, one of the members of the new international trio I am a part of called SAPIENT PARADOX. She and I will be preparing for our debut performance on the 11th, which will also feature the fantastic Czech drummer Jakub Švejnar.

On April 11, we will debut this trio live at the Sounds of the Underground Festival, SOTU also in Amsterdam! You can catch us at De Roze Tanker. The poster below features artwork from my wonderfully talented little boy Oliver, who is 9 now. I told him what the Sapient Paradox is – in as simple a way as possible – and that is the image that he created! I think it is really intuitive.

Then, on April 13, the trio will play at the awesome venue in Vienna, called Vekks. Vekks is a very special venue, collectively run by a tight-knit community of people who genuinely love art and music.

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