This month has been full of joyful. It started with Japanese "Troubadour Rocker" Tsuji, followed by abstract music concerts in Hamburg and Berlin. A French alternative folk-rock recording soon after my return. And finally Brazilian music. Brazilian music now. I met Toninho, the leader of this Brazilian music project, last summer when we played together in a private session. He said the form of my home-made electro-acoustic upright bass that I was using at that time make him remind their traditional instrument "RABECA" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabeca In this picture, It is played like a violin, but in reality, some people position it like a cello or a double bass). Using my instrument as a bigger and lower range version of the RABECA....I heard this is the Idea for calling me for this project. Toninho is a musician who has been working in Paris for a long time. He was the accompanist for a singer "Moustaki" who was the first music director(?) of a ...

 A few months ago, Andrew, an theremin player of impro-music from Hamburg, sent me a message: "I was asking my friend Kriton for musicians that might enjoy experimenting with me on my upcoming trip to Paris................ would be happy to meet you, possibly even play together if you are interested "  I wondered if I had ever played with someone from Berlin...? But then I remembered that the musician who played Daxophone. We played together a few years ago. It remind also that we had a great time.... Andrew told me that my name is on the Daxophonist Kriton's "list of people to see in Paris".  It is my pleasure :) . I watched a video of Andrew's performance, and I was very interested in his calm style with lot of space, which is the opposite of the high-tension, high-density style which is very popular in this kind of genre. Even if we can't play too loud, I prefer to play at a private home rather than in a studio rented by the hour, because we can have ...

This is the 2nd video of " Electro-Acoustic Upright Bass Jam" . I always like to create drum patterns even if it is without any purpose. And in this video series, I would like to explore something musically while jamming.... Recently, I'm wondering if I could to create rhythms with different sounds instead of using  drum kit sounds..., so I took a pattern that was originally created with normal drum kit sounds and changed it to some kind of ethnic instrument kit sound. And it sounded like a " World Beat " I like it and I took it. I feel this kind of mood was by rock musicians in the 80's as there experiment work but I think it could be interesting if we retake them as one of  contexts of jazz.... I'd love to push this feeling a bit further. On the technical side...  I tried to create the "main riff" also works as the "theme" of this tune. So the bass riff can also work  as the main motif. ( I'll define the word " Riff " ...