Two travellers, two paths, touching blues, jazz and singer-songwriter, uniting into an old, but equally new musical experience. Pianist Jan Kosyk is a solo artist, as well as an ensemble player, just like the bassist Alina Dalsegno, hence, they decided to continue the journey as a duo, creating original live music from influences of many decades.
Together with the Alina Dalsegno Trio, the two of us visited the Leipziger Liederszene and were delighted to meet lots of new people while networking.
Zwei Reisende berühren auf ihren Pfaden Blues, Jazz und Liedermacherei um ein altes – und gleichzeitig irgendwie neues – Musikerlebnis zu schaffen. Alina Dalsegno an Gesang und Bass sowie Jan Kosyk am Klavier, beide erfahren im Solo- und Ensemblespiel, beschreiten die Reise als Duo und kreieren eine Musik aus vielen Dekaden.
Hirai Masaya from Beppu and Jan Kosyk from Dresden started making music together in 2023. One year later, they had their first joint exhibition with cute pictures by Masaya and political animated films by Jan. And it was the birth of the »Beppu Punk Cats«!
Hirai Masaya and Jan Kosyk will give a full concert at Sempervivum. It will be a brilliant bouquet of Japanese-German punk rock jazz folk with guitar and piano.
For the second time Hirai Masaya and me played a Wohnzimmerkonzert at the great bar of Tapyasan.
Hirai Masaya and I played a great Wohnzimmer concert. We produced a mix of German and Japanese and sang, drummed and strummed together in the beautiful bar Tapyasan.
Today there will be no direct video of me. Instead I’ll recommend you the recordings of the Wohnzimmer concert from last Sunday. Masaya-san and me created some kind of unique japanese-german punk-folk-rock genre, where music connects people, meanings, pictures and languages. Enjoy it!
For more videos look into the Wohnzimmer concert event.
This week was full of art. \o/ I tell you timely backwards our todays presentation for Beppu Art Month, my plan to have flyers of our exhibtions and concerts for the Art Fair Beppu, the new song of the CATS project in Italian language from Thursday with Hirai Masaya and a rehearsal of Nihongo-German songs from Wednesday. Much music, some pictures. Have fun!
It’s nearly two weeks since the last daily, but I have my reasons. 😃 Today I gonna tell you some useful AI things I’ve done for the Neustadt Art Festival website and you’ll get some music: A spontaneous session at Watanabe Tomishoten and songs I rehearsed with Hirai Masaya. Have fun!
Right now there are quite a lot exhibitions and concerts and we try to catch some of them. In addition we installed a small cinema at Kurukuru. And I’m working on Cat And The Sun and the second song is ready for prepublishing it here. Have fun! 🎸🎶🎻🎵
Today you’ll see another unboxing of music equipment (How exciting! 😝), the first impression of the first verse of the first song of the project Cat And The Sun and a surprise at the end.
It’s been a while since the last daily (and it’s not called “weekly”), but I was busy creating a new Peertube instance for my videos. Now it’s ready and I’m proud to present it to you. 🥳
Nevertheless I did some artsy things like having the Songbirds concert last Saturday and doing some lead sheets for Masaya and me again. Enjoy it!
Today you’ll get some impressions of doing “musician things” like texting and rehearsing and a little timelaps building an improvised Piñata. 🪅
The first one is directly about the project »Cat And The Sun«. In this project I’ll write seven songs in seven languages and Omani will do seven artworka.
Furthermore you can listen to some snippets from a rehearsal of Hirai Masaya and me earlier this day.
It was in 2023 that I was allowed to go on a world tour with the unique Omani Frei. That was the start of recurring trips to Europe and Japan. You can read about my escapades and experiences in the Smörgåsbord Telegram channel:
Japan again, this time alone. I deepened my friendship and collaboration with Masaya and we launched the Beppu Punk Cats project, including recordings and a joint final exhibition.
I spent December in the beautiful hinterland of Portugal, in Roge near Vale de Cambra. It was very green, very relaxing and very quiet. After a short intermezzo in Dresden between the years, I travelled to Austria and then to PIAFF in Paris together with Omani. There, my animated film Alex won the audience award in the music video category.
In addition to Osaka, Beppu and Tokyo, Omani and I also travelled to Busan in South Korea and concluded this part of the trip with a visit to Cinanima in Espinho.
You can follow our journey in the specially created blog at smorgasbord.at.
Punk without drums and guitar, cross covers, own stuff and with a huge portion of political education. Political what?
Since 2018, I have been on stage alone with piano and voice. With almost forgotten cover songs and a constantly growing repertoire of my own compositions, I tell you what will make the world a better place.
I played my programme on NAF Friday at Oosteinde and on NAF Sunday at the Neustadt Art Kollektiv studio.
Our wonderful studio has been around for 3 years and we celebrated this with you! Surrounded by the art of Atilla Bayindir, Joelle Vanderbeke and Thomas Schreiter, the evening was filled with music by Anne Lenk, Vanessa Brix and me.
Tapya International Friends with special guest – me – on the melodica. Live at Gin&Lemon on April 14, 2024 organized by Kurukuru.
For the second time Hirai Masaya and me played a Wohnzimmerkonzert at the great bar of Tapyasan.
Hirai Masaya and I played a great Wohnzimmer concert. We produced a mix of German and Japanese and sang, drummed and strummed together in the beautiful bar Tapyasan.
I played together with Hiraj Masaya, サイキシミン, 沙摩柯 and FLASHBACK9 at the AT HALL in Ōita. 🥳
We made it: After less than two months on our trip called Smörgåsbord, we have our first exhibition and concert in Japan. 🥳
I produced an album – with band! \o/ Due to external circumstances we use the 2nd of March to release the album in a small round – with band! 🙂
The Folkpunkfriends from Leipzig got wind of me at the end of 2022 and already visited us at Drägg’schen Löffel and lax&lux. Now there was a small recording session in the tub, very small and secret.
Bei der Musik- und Literaturreihe lax&lux – trifft Monat für Monat im Leipziger Osten Ton auf Text, Gesang auf Gespräch. Kritisch-humorvoll, intelligent und trotzdem warmherzig beobachten die Liedermacherin Paula Linke und der Autor Daniel Baierl die Umwelt in ihrer jeweiligen Disziplin.