Radiomontecarlo.net : Monte Carlo Nights
Last night at the Blue Note I did an interview with Nick, the Nightfly between my sets. We met for the first time in 1994, I believe. He mentioned that next year his program will be twenty years old and I answered that I recorded “Nouveau Flamenco” twenty years ago next year… Time is like climbing a mountain. We take one little breathless step at a time, but at intervals we look back and are amazed at the view back down the valley… Twenty years – almost half of my life. A long time or not time at all… :)
May Touring Schedule The German dates of this current solo-tour are being reschuled for the Fall and will be part of a larger European solo-tour. More information later. The dates are not being cancelled, just rescheduled. I will travel from Italy to Canada for the concert in Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, on June 1st.
Click opera – Fixated on the fixie Put most simply: while you’re on your bike you’re not on your computer. But, by the same token, there is a connection between these new bikes and computers, just as there is between today’s art and computers. It’s the connection of negation, of complementarity, of something being made necessary by something else.
Momus writes about Fixies. It includes this funny passage:
The fixie trend is also a distinction strategy. It’s a way for hipsters to say “I’m not just another suburban bozo with a car”. But it’s also a way for the West to say to China: “Okay, you all have cars now. Well, we’re onto something else: bicycles.” Which is ironic, since the West used to laugh at China for wobbling around, in its billions, on bicycles.
