Make sure to come to Pastards on the 30th of April, here is the Link for reservations (Pasta and Music ticket included): https://pay.sumup.com/b2c/QAH2KUQQ

We are also part of International Jazz Day 2026 celebration, which is really cool, as can be seen here: https://jazzday.com/listing/pastards-third-edition-live-jazz-pasta-at-giri/

This is our text so you can get a feeling of what we are planning:

“Pastards is a recurring event centered around live music, with a strong jazz focus, where Giri cooks and serves fresh pasta, enriched with flavors and preparations created by our in-house chef. It’s designed as a convivial experience – a moment to enjoy live music with friends, a glass in hand, in a space that invites you to stay, listen, and connect.

The evening often begins with a vinyl selection, gradually setting the tone before moving into the live performance.

To celebrate International Jazz Day 2026, Fabio Radermacher and the 4th Encounter will present a grooving spectacle: from Herbie Hancock to Roy Hargrove and beyond. Mattia Prete, one of the finest selectors of vinyl the city has to offer, will set the tone for the night with some gems. The ticket includes both the concert and a serving of pasta – no pasta no festa Baci”

Following is this weeks Blog-Entry:

Sometimes you have to operate with deliberation rather than charging ahead senselessly. With patience.

My sense of orientation is not fully awake yet this morning on the moving ICE, and I’m noticeably struggling to drag musical notes around on the display. So instead, I’m writing. The morning sun looks magnificent. It’s shining on the endless fields of Brandenburg.

Right now I’m thinking about what so fascinated Stefan Zweig: the so-called monomania. That state in which a human being is completely possessed by a single idea or purpose. I’m wondering whether there have also been historical figures who achieved mastery without even a mild form of monomania. E.T.A. Hoffmann comes to mind immediately. Although he was a pioneer of Romanticism as a composer, he also became one of the most widely read authors in Europe. I’m also thinking of chess — a discipline in which you have to surrender your entire being (much like playing the trumpet) if you want to succeed.

One might think this stems from a desire to outdo the competition, but it’s really about something deeper: the psyche must be wholly absorbed by the thing itself so that body and mind become truly capable of what we generally call art. Only when thinking, feeling, intuiting, and sensing — perhaps not in equal measure, but in a meaningful way — are all harnessed toward solving a task can an individual unfold their full creative power. If one of these main functions is missing, our work will eventually stall and won’t move forward until we take that unfamiliar step that may at first feel inadequate. For example, someone who finds it hard to set thinking aside and surrender to pure feeling will struggle, while another person may feel deeply but is unable to approach an object with logical understanding. Monomania seems to act as a kind of crutch here: by excluding all other stimuli, it inevitably forces the monomaniacal interest to claim all four basic functions for itself.

Also, I will be performing for jazz-o-tech during Athens Music Week, which I am hyped for: https://ra.co/events/2419189, as well as a performance with 505 for the local Goethe-Institut.

That’s it for this week! I hope you are doing well.

Talk soon,

Fabio