I’m in San Francisco this week. Or rather, I’m near San Francisco. I’m in a place called Inverness, which is right by Point Reyes, just north of San Francisco. I’m here with the team from Bandcamp, who have invited me over to be part of their staff retreat. Bandcamp’s a web service that helps musicians [...]
Tagged: bandcamp, San Francisco
I’ve been in Stavanger in Norway most of this week, working on a project that, when you say it out loud, might seem a little odd. There’s this 10-piece avant-garde improvisational jazz band called the Kitchen Orchestra. They use a lot of electronics alongside traditional instrumentation. They’re putting on a performance of a five-movement composition [...]
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Tagged: Kitchen Orchestra
I spent the last few days in the town of Bremen in Germany at an annual jazz industry trade fair called Jazzahead. It was pretty good, actually – a lot of good music across a number of venues, and lots of stands where people were promoting their bands, their countries, their festivals and their jazz-related [...]
