Rattlebrained

At first I had thimbles on all my fingers and also had made aluminum “whackers” for my thumbs, but when I started to play with brushes too, I had a hard time not losing the thumb whackers so they ended up remaining in the box. Then since thimbles on my pinkys never seemed that useful I gave up on them too. With three thimbles on each hand I can pretty much get all the sounds I want, plus I can still hold things between the two non thimbled fingers. I should add that I’ve never been that good at tapping and don’t really use each individual finger separately; I kind of rub and tap with one or more thimbles depending on how thick the sound should be.

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More than surprise, doubt or self debate on “mysterious senses”, my main memory of that experience is one of delight; the magic of perception and perceiving.

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From last week’s gig.
It’s not easy to comment on ones own bones work but I was happily surprised with this video because while playing I felt that I was really screwing up the song with all the mistakes I was making, but in the end there are only two or three that are glaringly obvious (to me at least).

The website of Keb' Mo'

Jeizinen is a charming Valaisan alpine village perched above Gampel-Steg. I can imagine that it hasn’t changed much in the recent years, no big ugly tourist apartment “chalets” to be seen nor are cars allowed; it’s not even clear they would make it through the village’s pathways. Although the lack of snow would have made it easy for us to drive up to it we had been warned that the parking lot was a lot farther away from the Restaurant Bielti than the top of the village’s teleferic (cable car), so we drove to the bottom of that as planned.

Having checked out the timetables we expected a 45 min. wait, but once the guy there found out we where the musicians he had us move all are gear directly into the cable car, a small box for maybe 10 people, and up we went…

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Found on Mother Earth News; a quick overview of rhythm bones playing that also explains how to “recycle” your evening’s beef ribs…

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Tuesday I went to the ABC, the cultural center here in La Chaux-de-Fonds, to see a performance by musician - dancer - composer - performer Steve Buchanan, who has created a “mini-interactive percussive/dance system”: the 2nd LINE…

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This next Friday (Jan. 14th 2011) Swamp train will be performing at the Musigbar Grenchen, so if your in the area why not come and check us out!

The concert starts at 21h30.

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