It's been awhile (TSPO and Korn)

Dear visitors,

A little bit longer than planned, but I'm back again. Not that I've been away. I didn't left the country. Just took some leave from blogging for an unspecified amount of time. I had enough things/subjects to blog about, it was just a matter of other things on my mind, lack of energy, focus etc...

When it comes to music I didn't kept completely quiet the past 7, 8 months. I just didn't blog about it that's all.

In my next post I will give you an update on the concerts that I, often accompanied by wy wife N., visited the past 9 or 10 months with some videos.

In this post I'll give a short report on two concerts that we visited last Friday and Sunday.

Friday N. and I went to Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra (TSPO) from Japan together with an ex-colleague and her friend at "De Melkweg", Amsterdam. For N. and I it was the fourth time to see TSPO. If you're in for a fun night with a good band

A little more patience

As visitors might have noticed, things have been very quiet the past three months around here. Due to family circumstances (after a short sickbed my mother passed away last december, one month after we came back from Japan) I took some compassionate leave from blogging.

Things are slowly getting back to our normal daily routines. I probably will start posting again within one or two weeks. So please a little more patience. I'll be back soon.

Bye for now.

North Sea Jazz

A little bit late, but here are some videos which I found on YouTube with (parts of) performances that my wife N. and I saw at North Sea Jazz Festival 2009. I already posted some pics which I took at the festval on my photoweblog BrownNoisePhotos here, here and here.

I don't have the time to give extended reviews about the perfromances that we saw, but you must believe that we had a nice day and that we saw some great perfromances. Hopefully you can agree after seeing some of the videos that I've embedded.

You can see some video's from Akiko Yano & Hiromi Uehara, The John Scofield Piety Street band and from Michiel Borstlap, Han Bennink & Ernst Glerum. From Lang Lang and Herbie Hancock there is enough material on YouTube but nothing from their performance at North Sea Jazz. Herbie Hancock also did a very nice solo improvisation on his own composition Dolphin Dance from his classic album "Maiden Voyage", but unfortunately no material from this on YouTube.

Well I'm going to leave you with some video's. I hope you will enjoy!