Back from Cock Robin gigs and TUNER mixing.

Some Cock Robin soundcheck photos:

cock-robin.awcreation.com/medias/photos/chalons.php

Later this week please check our TUNER myspace to read a little behind the scenes mixing blog.

This week cutting a track for one of Austin most outstanding and beloved guitarists, David Grissom.



Home!

Kind of strange to be home for more than a week. The KTU gigs in Spain and Portugal were fantastic and I really enjoyed taking a few extra days to soak in both cultures, met some wonderful students and saw lots of great art and music, even met one of my favorite bands "The Bad Plus" and then spent an hour standing with David King and Tony Alan watching Trilok Gurtu.

Leaving for France next week to do more Cock Robin gigs (festivals) and then to Germany to meet Markus and Fabio Trentini and begin mixing the next Tuner record.

Last week I went to Portland and at the airport ran into The Tubes with ex Cock Robin drummer Lou Molino chasing his lost luggage (small world!).

While home I have been preparing Tuner vocal tracks and got even more vocal contributions from Peter Kingsbery when he dropped into Texas last week. Sadly i also found a hard drive has died. . .big drag since it contains lots of valuable data including the Crimson 04 rehearsals that BPMM had been tweaking (tomorrow I meet a friend who might be able to revive the drive).

Trey Gunn and I play on the new release from Azam Ali, check it out- she is fantastic.

In October i will spend a week in Sweden working with Markus Reuter and Isildurs Bane .

Aug 25 2006

Belgium Festival Hannut, Belgium

Aug 29 2006

Chalon en Champagne Paris, France

Oct 16-21 2006

IB expo -Kulturhuet Halmstad, Sweden

**Last spring after the KTU show in Denmark a genuinely excited David Fricke (legendary Rolling stone writer) came to met the band. I read now that he has posted:

David Fricke's column "Fricke's Picks" in the current issue of Rolling Stone:

KTU (pronounced "K2") are a quartet of devilishly intergrated halves: avant-accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen and digital manipulator Samuli Kosminen from Finland, and drummer Pat Mastelotto and guitarist Trey Gunn from King Crimson. Their debut, Eight Armed Monkey (Thirsty Ear), recorded live in 2004, is a robust tumult of Northern Lights sparkle, white-wolf guitar wail and rolling, knotted thunder. Pohjonen is a wonder unto himself: animating his wind song with pedals and processing; attacking the bellows with the ecstatic fury of Jimi Hendrix. When I saw KTU play in Europe recently, they were as powerful and transgressive as the current killer Crimson (without, of course, Robert Fripp). But I was stunned to discover, after the show, that KTU have yet to get an American gig because, Gunn said, "Promoters are afraid of the word 'accordion.' " People, look at it this way: Pohjonen plays the ultimate in air guitar. Now hit the phone.



In Joshua Tree rehearsing with Cock Robin (The Cock Robin from the 80s with Peter Kingsbery, Anna Lacazio and Clive Wright. . .NOT the cock robin from the 70's i have just become aware of). I may have traveled much of the world but have never lived the dessert life (and it is a lifestyle out here). The Cocks have added another show July 1st Mets-Open Air (place du marche`).

May 16th Happy to be Happy Birthday to Robert Fripp!

busy busy here carving tracks and preparing patches for summer gigs:

KTU

May 19 2006

FIMAV Festival Victoriaville Quebec, Canada

Cock Robin warm up show

May 27 2006

Coach House San Juan Capistrano, CA

KTU

Jun 2 2006

Nattjazz Festival Bergen, Norway

Jun 3 2006

Spot festival Arhus, Denmark

COCK ROBIN in Europe

Jun 14 2006 8:00P

Femina Bordeaux, France

Jun 16 2006 8:00P

Ninkasi Lyon, France

Jun 17 2006 8:00P

Casino Geneve, France

Jun 20 2006 8:00P

Theatre Sebastopol Lille, France

Jun 21 2006 8:00P

Bota Bruxelles, Belgium

Jun 24 2006 8:00P

Omnibus St Malo, France

Jun 27 2006 8:00P

Cafe de la Danse Paris

Jun 28 2006 8:00P

Cafe de la Danse Paris

Jun 29 2006 8:00P

Salle Edmond Desouches Luce (Chartres), France

July 1st 2006

Mets-Open Air (place du marche`), France

July 5th

Dentist-yep!

NAMM

July 14-16

Austin, Tx

KTU

June 24

Aragonese Pyrenees festival , Spain

Pat drum classes

Jul 27/28/29 2006

FMM Festival Sines, Portugal



Just back from Russia -spending almost two weeks, sharing apartments with Russians and traveling deeper into the north I got to experience a very different side of Russia, I plan to write a more detailed blog over at the myspace site but in the meantime check this link for pictures and a story from my (not a master) drum class - once again the russian to English computer translation give some very funny interpretations.

While home the next few weeks I am working on tracks for one of Austin's more eclectic and outside young musicians John Pointercheck out John's 'make a CD with me' offer. Also doing more sonic work for the new Microsoft Vista OS, and even starting some Cock Robin rehearsals here in Austin later this week.

My next live show coming up will be the KTU North American debut May, 19 2006 at FIMAV Festival near Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada .

Followed by a May 27th warm up date for Cock Robin at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano California (more CR gigs start mid June in Europe).