Opened my electric guitar case, perhaps for the first time since the 2009 Summer tour, and the tuners looked like this: That spray my friend applied that was to reduce the friction over the nut, which creates an unpleasant sound, must have been a little bit corrosive!!
Two rehearsals yesterday. Jon, Houman and I worked from 10:00-13:00 – Michael was coming back from Europe on Tuesday, was stuck in an airport for most of the night, and arrived in Santa Fe late Wednesday morning – and Jon, Houman and Michael worked in the afternoon. More rehearsing today. We are working on a few weaknesses that were bothering me, and I think we are really making improvements.
This Summer we are releasing two versions of the album “Santa Fe”. This album is the completely re-worked music of The Santa Fe Sessions (which has been out-of-print for a couple of years), with a few unreleased versions (2 the Night, Santa Fe, Borrasca), with many new parts and newly mixed and mastered. I think it sounds great.
The tracklist is as follows:
01. Barcelona Nights
02. Isla del Sol
03. 2 the Night
04. Dancing Under the Moon
05. Heart Still/Beating
06. Reaching Out 2 U
07. Santa Fe
08. Borrasca
09. Turkish Night
10. La Rosa Negra
11. Havana Club
12. Snakecharmer
13. Morning Arrival in Goa
The music is identical on both albums. The first image shows the Lifescapes CD that will be available at Target, starting in June.
The second image shows the CD that will be available ONLY at our concerts. We will not sell this CD from our website or in download form. We will have these CDS with us on the Spring tour that starts this weekend.
As promised, here is some music from the last tour, three pieces recorded live to 2-track at Infinity Hall, in Norfolk, in May. First “Passing Storm” from Nouveau Flamenco:
Trailer for an upcoming documentary movie about Yohji Yamamoto: YOHJI YAMAMOTO: THIS IS MY DREAM (Vimeo) I am always finding the way… how to pay…
A very moving video, I find, and here Yohji is not talking about money.
Upaya Newsletter for 6/6/2011 This is my simple religion.
There is no need for complicated philosophies, not even for temples. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple.
The philosophy is kindness.
– His Holiness The Dalai Lama
The Peonies are blooming: Because of the big fire in Arizona smoke has been in the air for days. Last night, long before sunset, the red sun was sending these tendrils into a room in my house… Hazy sky with bright red sun, nearly an hour before sunset:
