Concert Announcements

I am more than happy that the second edition of “Pastards” is going down on the 10th of September. Thanks to the great GIRI-Team and my hard working bandmates, as well as Lilah Amar, we will have a splendid night of awesome food & drinks plus our music, presenting old and new grooves.

Here is the lineup:

6-8pm DJ Allynx

8-10pm The 4th Encounter

Fabian Fischer // dr

Alejandro Muhech // git

Franzi Aller // bass

Fabio Radermacher // trp

Reserve tickets here: https://ra.co/events/2243700

Also, the ValentinsPoint-Series is growing, find us every Tuesday on Donausstraße 112, this time featuring Manu Husseini, Franzi Aller and Alejandro Muhech.

Just some thoughts

I find writing (just writing without an objective) one of the most useful ways to speed up my thought. Instead of circling around an issues, I begin to dig deeper into it. Even if there is no obvious solution, I might get a hint. Also it is the best way to harness useful thoughts. The ones which are applicable. This is something, among other things, I learned to do while being in the train.

Also on my train ride I read a great novel of Hans Fallada, “Wolfs among Wolfs”. I have seldom found a novel so full of life, so vivid, and so diverse in its scenes. It is during the peak of inflation that one of the rather many protagonists, Wolfgang Pagel is trying to make his luck in a post-first-world-war Germany. Our Emotions many times do not make much sense, and so our decision making. And Fallada is masterfully revealing to us the innocent origin of each characters hidden motives. Thus the novel is also a plea for forgiveness. 

That reminds me of a story I read in a book from Marie Louise von Franz. It goes something like this: Somewhere in Switzerland, in a small village, there was a peculiar man: He was a “neurotic” stealer. He could not stop himself from stealing this or that from the neighbours. But nobody said a thing. Because they knew that always the day after his wife would bring the two or three little things he had stolen before back. That means at a certain closeness of relation, even major errors in personality are made up for by the community. It is by such manners that we can judge the healthiness of a society.

Charlie Parker at the Three Deuces

Just because not everybody might know this recording: Benedetti recorded Charlie Parker at what some people considered the peak of his genius: the residencies at the Three Duces and the Onyx Club. I highly recommend to check it out (The Complete Benedetti Recordings of Charlie Parker). He recorded him originally because he wanted to transcribe him. (https://youtu.be/eJY4DfM1B50?si=nBvalKBxvEITHS_E)

Have a great week and see you, online or in all livelihood. 

Fabio