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.
On this EP, the trio led by Alina Dalsegno on bass explores the similarities between blues and swing. Together with pianist Jan Kosyk and drummer Joachim Jurenz, they jazz up four songs by the Siberian singer-songwriter. The result is a work from the deepest Russian soul paired with the lightness of 1920s swing in English and Russian. Anyone who loves jazz standards will love this gem. And eagerly await the summer when Vol. 2 is released with a further five songs.
Am 17. Februar 2025 machten wir unseren 13. Stop auf der Liedertour und spielten im Fürstenkeller der Burg Querfurt.
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.
Hirai Masaya from Beppu (Japan) and me merge together to form the Beppu Punk Cats. An explosive mixture of political content and emotional songs in English, Japanese and German.
Accompanied by guitar and piano, the expressive voices explain why Alex expropriated the bear, how to get Nazis out of the house and why people are more important than borders. And while the two use my pen to write the odd lines of music into the listener’s ears, they talk musically about melted ice cream. Just as if they were sitting in the sun – with a beer in their hand – in front of the next late-night shop.
別府（日本）のヒライマサヤ(Vo.Gt.)とドレスデン（ドイツ）のヤン・コシク(Vo.Pf.)が合体して別府パンクキャッツを結成。英語、日本語、ドイツ語で政治的な歌とロマンチックな歌が爆発的に混ざり合った作品。
ギターとピアノの伴奏と表現力豊かな声でアレックスがクマの財産を没収した理由、ナチスを家から追い出す方法、国境よりも人間が大切である理由を表明します。
そして、2人は「私のペン」であなたの耳に奇妙なメロディーを書き綴り、溶けたアイスクリームについて音楽的な会話を交わします。
それはまるで、明け方のコンビニの店先、ビールを飲みながら朝日を浴びて座っているかのようです。
As of April 11:
Hirai Masaya (Japan) and Jan Kosyk (Germany) merge together to form the Beppu Punk Cats. An explosive mixture of political content and emotional songs in English, Japanese and German.
The Beppu Punk Cats will once again be playing at the famous Tapya and will set the small venue alight. They will be accompanied by the nimble fingers of Morichan from The Old&Moderns on the double bass.
Performers: Geography Of The Moon (UK), Beppu Punk Cats and 甲斐調音 (JP)
The first album with 9 tracks. Reason enough to celebrate a record release concert. ヒライマサヤ and Jan Kosyk presented songs from the album garnished with their own and new creations.
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.
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 had the wonderful honour of spending my last concert in Japan – for this year – in a line-up of outstanding musicians.
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.
