On friday I borrowed a four volume Oscar Peterson set.. and it’s simply amazing.
What really overawes me is the technical level that he plays. I mean.. sometimes you listen to music and think.. “aye.. give it a bit of time and perhaps I could work it out” or “ah.. thats the old A Bm A/C# [...]
A few days a week I go roaming around Switzerland in trains with my portable traveller satiator.
It’s been a long journey to get here, but today after two hours of administrative banter in an office tucked in a back street in Bern, my days of a being semi-legal country-wandering jobless nomad student are over! Included in the Bern official welcome package.. a little city map, a free public transport ticket, and [...]
If you would like to try listening to some german.. (or at least a swiss person speaking high-german which I think a a little softer on the ears.. kinda the “norn irsh” equivalent i suppose) then a good way to spend the time would be listening to Martin Bühlmann talking about “Perspektivenwechsel”. In german the [...]
Lots of snow arrived in Bern over the weekend, as did my parents..! It’s nice to view the city from a visitors set of eyes again. It’s also a brilliant wee break before my new job serving coffee and snacks on the railways of Switzerland begins (can’t afford to sleep in!) and getting back to [...]
Not so long ago I disappeared from Facebook.. the majority of the impetus to do so coming partially from j’s intuitions and thinking about what I wanted to be involved in when I read this… and when I began to realise that it was impossible to actually delete the account, but only temporarily deactivate it, [...]
They were labelled as “most anti-christmas thing since mince pies” by the catholic league.. but I’m still tempted to read them, and I’ve a sneaking little suspicion that some dark materials may be lurking at the bottom of my stocking this year (something to do with probing questions from ju in waterstones)
As well as the [...]
There’s little special moments when you’re playing music where its quite easy to get beautifully lost in the middle of a jam.. boucing ideas and riffs of other players.. gradual swells from little melodic waves gently playing around your toes to full-on sound tsumami crashing around your ears… like that one time with the ceilidh [...]
