Happy Tuesday everybody! The Tiptons new record is mastered and awaiting duplication. I just got a copy in the mail. It’s sounds beautiful. Mastered by Mell Dettmer in Seattle. I’ve heard through the grapevine that the new La Buya record is awaiting mastering, can’t wait to hear it. I spent a lovely weekend in Northern Maine! Now it’s back to painting the house, scraping wallpaper, etc, etc. Good times! Don’t forget, Slavic Soul Party! plays at Barbes tonight and EVERY Tuesday from 9-midnight. Barbes is located at 6th Ave and 9th Street in Brooklyn, NY. Come on by, it’s a great hang!

I’ve been painting the house, scraping wallpaper off the bathroom walls, celebrating the birth of my nephew Hugo and trying to squeeze too much stuff into too little time, as always……..

I have the following giggage this week:

Tuesday, August 10 Nashville via Seattle Songwriters Jonathan Kingham and Ryan Shea Smith @ Barbes, 7-9 pm
Tuesday, August 10 Slavic Soul Party! @ Barbes, 9-midnight
Thursday, August 12 Songwriter Ryan Shea Smith @ Banjo Jim’s, 7-7:45 pm
Thursday, August 12 Ansambl Mastika @ Barbes. 10-midnight
Saturday, August 14 Frank London Ensemble at Gypsy Fest (Loc. and time TBA)

Thursday, August 5
Crazy Slavic Trio (Eyal Maoz, Ron Caswell, Me)
The Tea Lounge, Union St. @ 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
9-11pm

Friday, August 6
Hans Erik Trio
Bar4
7th Ave @ 15th St., Brooklyn, NY
10 pm

Sunday, August 8
Slavic Soul Party!
Riverside Park, Manhattan, NY
7 pm

Tuesday, August 10
Slavic Soul Party!
Barbes, 9th Street @ 6th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
9-midnight

Just back from the Kultur Shock tour and post-tour holiday in Portugal! It’s good to be back in Brooklyn!

Here are the Kultur Shock Summer Tour Dates. Hope to see you there!!

21.6.10 Thionville, France Fete de la Musique
23.6.10 Brussels, Belgium Magazin 4
24.6.10 Nantes, France La Rerrailleur
25.6.10 Paris, France La Bellevilloise
26.6.10 Strasbourg, France Molodoi
27.6.10 Geneve, Switzerland Kab de l”Usine
29.6.10 Ljubljana, Slovenia Gala Hala, Metelkova
2.7.10 Moskow, Russia Gogol Club
4.7.10 Perm, Russia Movement Festival
6.7.10 Pula, Croatia Art & Music Festival
7.7.10 Maribor, Slovenia Lent Festival
9.7.10 Vrbovec, Croatia VUM Festival
10.7.10 Novi Sad, Serbia EXIT Festival
12.7.10 Prijedor, Bosnia venue TBA
14.7.10 Tuzla, Bosnia venue TBA
15.7.10 Kranj, Slovenia venue TBA
16.7.10 Metlika, Slovenia Metlika Fest
17.7.10 Chianciano Therme, Italy Festa della Musika
20.7.10 Rome, Italy Forte Prenestino

Wow! Just finished an incredibly busy couple of weeks. I finally got a little break this morning and was able to catch some of the World Cup on Univision! Memorial Day weekend I led Slavic Soul Party! in a concert and collaboration at Riker’s Island Correctional Facility in one of the Juvenile detention centers. A pretty intense experience! Later that week I flew to Seattle for all day rehearsals with Kultur Shock in preparation for our new record and summer touring. I’ll post the schedule here. While in Seattle I squeezed in a couple of rehearsals with Jonathan Kingham, Ryan Smith and Myles Corbin and later a double CD release concert at Benaroya Hall. It was great to see old friends! I flew back to New York on Monday and immediately began all-day rehearsals with The Tiptons Saxophone Quartet & Drums leading up to two days of recording at Godel String Studio in Brooklyn as well as gigs at The Tank and Ella in Manhattan. Whew! Assuming my passport makes it out of the Russian Consulate by Friday I’ll be on my way to Luxembourg on Sunday for a month of touring with Kultur Shock.

Monday, May 17 2010
Hans York @ Barbés, 7-9 PM. 6th Ave/9th Street in Brooklyn. $10 Suggested

Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Slavic Soul Party @ Barbés, 9-midnight. 6th Ave/9th Street in Brooklyn. $10 Suggested

Wednesday, May 19
Slavic Soul Party @ BAR, 9-midnight. 254 Crown Street New Haven, Connecticut 06511

Friday
Slavic Soul Party @ St. Ann’s Warehouse, 10pm-2am. The Fabulous and The Feral, A Benefit for Great Small Works. 38 Water Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217

The gigs/tour page has been experiencing some problems in the last couple of days, I’m trying to work on it….

Hi Friends,

I will be doing a special performance tonight at Barbes with my good friend Hans York, a German-born, Seattle-based Singer-Songwriter. Hans is on a year-long solo U.S. tour and stopped off in New York this past week. He’ll be leaving for Florida Tuesday morning so this is your last chance to catch him in New York for quite a while. We’ll play songs off of his most recent record “Young Amelia” which I helped produce, as well as a bunch of new tunes that he’s written while on the road. We’ll be joined by Elizabeth! on trombone and voice. It’s an early show, I hope you can join us!

http://www.hansyork.com

Monday, May 17
7-9 PM at BARBES

376 9th St., Brooklyn, 11215 (at the corner of 6th Avenue and 9th St)

http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com

$10 Suggested