Newsletter

• 2008-07-16, 16:22

  Bear Family Records will feature in their 'Jazz In Germany Edition' our track 'Blues For Yemaya' from the Lotz Of Music In Havana album.

• 2008-06-30, 09:04

  A Fula's Call CD Liingu is released now via As De Pic Music in France, Uk and Switserland. We are very happy about this. Gigs are coming up with A Fula's Call, David Haney, Giovanca, Wouter Hamel, Mete Erker. Also somehow I get more and more requests to play Bansuri (the Indian Bamboo Flute)! Nice. Like in (pop) studio projects of Konstantin (Georgia), Wahid (Afghanistan), Rekesh (Surinam) and with Gumnaam (Netherlands). Funny how the world goes.

• 2008-06-02, 09:44

  World Music Central published a very flattering review on our Liingu CD.

• 2008-06-02, 09:40

  a lot of things happened: Omar and me just made a small video clip to promote our CD Liingu in France. Gigs coming up and done with A Fula's Call, Giovanca, U-(ex)perimental and I did a improvisation workshop. Also for the first time I attended two of these Music fairs to make contact and network. Anyhow vacation In Tuscani revived me (&small femili) - I tried eveything the various menu cards could offer. God what a good live .... .

• 2008-04-15, 14:27

  Just returned from a wonderfull trip to Turkey. First we had a great performance at the Ankara Music Festival with the Kamil Erdem Quartet and then I recorded two tracks on vocals (!), bansuri, c- and bass flute in Istanbul for the debut CD of Ud virtuoso Fatith Ahiskali. I really had a great time. Never refuse when you get invited by Turkisch people ;-). Istanbul still is my favourite city: vibrant, modern, exciting. Gosch .... hated it to return ... .

• 2008-03-02, 13:04

  Just returned from France where I did two concerts in Toulouse with guitar virtuoso Pierre Abbo. Back here in col' an' misty Holland still being confronted with lots of news around our Liingu album of A Fula's Call: There are nice reviews on www.jazzenzo.nl, (in Dutch) and Folker magazin (in German), placed as CD of the month at the Muziek Zonder Grenzen Radio Show in Holland. Liingu will be placed as CD of the month march at the Africabonjour radio show (US), etc etc.

• 2008-02-11, 09:00

  Latin Jazz Network published a very flattering Article on our latest release Liingu. And there is a great review on flyglobalmusic.com Our Tour with the Kamil Erdem Groep was a big succes. Even our premier already was a strong concert, which had a fantastic review in the Volkskrant by Ton Maas. Our music wil be documented on our debut CD we recorded last week (with me as recording engineer! Exhausting ...) There is a Turkish recordcompany releasing it possibly soon enough to be presented at our performance at the International Ankara Music Festival in April.

• 2008-01-27, 12:57

  Jazz.com published an article on Lotz and his A Fula's Call CD Liingu.

• 2008-01-17, 09:03

  The track 'Cowboy Game' a duett with Alan 'Gunga' Purves on mouth-harp and mini Kalimbas is released on the Compilation CD: Dutch Jazz Music 2008 by Buma/Cultuur.

• 2008-01-17, 08:58

  Our Liingu album is already received very well around the globe: rated no. 3 at the 'WVKR world music top ten, CMJ Issue #1040' rated the maximum of five stars in the Dutch 'Jazzism' Magazine listed no. 1 at the Tipsheet of Australian radio (PBS 106,7 FM General Tipsheet) This is what the world needs - honest, organic, natural collaborations where heart meets sound. 'DELIGHTFUL, ROBUST, STRONG, and a host of other adjectives I'd ascribe to this beautiful release. It is a powerful moment to surrender to what the music wants [to be].(B.-D. DeCarlo, KBCS 91.3 FM) interview at the jan. 16'th 'Jazzmeeting' radio show. or more pittoresque: massal reactions of Norwegian radio listeners (2NRK) due to the likeness of the Balal/slow flute melody which seems to be the same as Cornelis Vreeswijk's Song: Sjuttonde Balladen. Also the National Anthem of Argentinia starts with the same melody! There you c: from Senegal to Argentinia back to Sweden ... with lotz of love ;-)

• 2008-01-09, 09:26

  The CD Liingu is going to be exposed at the First World Music show (this next Monday 12 noon to 3 PM, US time) at WVKR. You can listen to the archived broadcast of the VPRO programme 'De Wandelende Tak' around the release of our new CD 'Liingu' with 'A Fula's Call' and other stuff.

• 2007-12-27, 15:27

  There are some reviews (in Dutch) on our new album by africanieuws.nl, moorsmagazine.nl , jazzflits.nl (download the newest digital letter as pdf file), Dagblad Trouw and ZunZun Magazine (in French).

• 2007-10-25, 16:27

  This is going to be really busy month: I have a trip into Pop land with two studio gigs: Recording with Anton Goudsmit at Camp Silver for the Easy Aloha's and for Bennie Sings on a album of gorgeous vocalist Giovanca. I am on of the guest artist helding a workshop at the Rotterdam Conservatory about 'With Other Ears'. Performing with the BBconnected jazzy pop. Rehearsing and performing with Raj Mohan's Shairana for a Tour with Denise Jannah and Opera tenor Anthony Heidweiler. Rehearsing and performing Das Lied der Glocke (Symphonic work with choir) of Max Bruch with the Brederodse Consort Performing free improv at the u-ex(perimental) concert series with some really exciting guests from Korea, Germany and Italy. Working on compositions for the Tour with Kamil Erdem in January. Promoting our new Cd with A Fula's Call. Working on the Layout for a new Maxanter release and the coming Dag Van De Nederlandse Jazz flyer poster, etc. Meetings with the Music:World Series concerning concerts/future/ subsidy etc. Next to pretending to have a daily live of being a housefather, practicing, studying bansuri, teaching, playing tennis, attending Asian cook lessons, etc etc etc.

• 2007-10-08, 08:40

  The US/Kanada Tour with Estrella's Guaijra was a big succes. It was obvious that the Americans do not experience often a Cuban band with a distinct Cuban sound. They reacted very very enthusiastic. Further I experienced a marvelous New York Style Sirloin Steak I still dream of, as well as of some of the female college students of the WU (Wisconsin University), and of the priviledge attending a performance of living drum legend Clyde Stubblefield. It was smokin' - que bomba! And that being in his seventies right now! Just finished a Dutch Tour with Raj Mohan's Ensemble with Gheet and Ghazal's. We played Indian light classical music for a Morrocan crowd and organisation around the Ramadan together with an Gospel choir, a Turkish/Iranian Sufi ensemble and a Morrocan party band. Can live get more beautyfull? Now I am in the middle of looking for a record company interested in releasing our new CD Liingu with A Fula's Call.

• 2007-08-21, 12:40

  With A Fula's Call we have finished recording the last dub's (with a.o. Sandip Battacharrya on vocals and tabla and Mustapha Znaida on Gembri) for our debut CD. Mixing will be done by Rainer Kubialka of the Topaz Studio in Cologne. From september on I am a student again for North Indian Music at the Conservatory Rotterdam. Looking forward to it, especially meeting bansuri (bamboo flute) god himself = Hari Prasad Chaurasia. The Kantraki Tour with Raj Mohan's ensemble in Suriname was a big succes. We experienced compulsive eruptions of water, millions of mosquitos, countless radio and television performances, concerts for ministers, ambassadors and a whole lot of other ridiculous important people, besides having a neighbour who was crying and touching our feet because he was exposed (= here: blessed) to my daily practicing and rehearsals and made contact with a four meter Anaconda. But the most wild, exciting and dangerous encounter was the one with those four gorgeous lovely and lively ladies ... the dansers and singers of a Indian folkore group from Bihar we were sandwiched with often.

• 2007-04-13, 18:16

  Our free improv concert series u-ex(perimental) got some reviews: by draaiomjeoren.com and by jazzenzo.nl (watch out in ...Dutch!)

• 2007-03-14, 10:41

  There are some Tours coming up: With the Raj Mohan Ensemble we are heading for Suriname, Guyana and Trinidad from 28th may till 15th of june. Concerts feature radio and television appearances as well. With Estrellas Guaijrra we are heading for the US in september 2007. Also check out the TV broadcast 6'th of mei at vrije geluiden, vpro. With the Kamil Erdem Group (Istanbul/Amsterdam) we are Touring Holland in februari 2008

• 2007-03-06, 14:07

  There are some nice concerts coming up: With the ZuiderZee Orcestra we have several gigs - this time with a true New Wave, Pop, Rock programme. With the Raj Mohan Ensemble (a.o. in a Hindu temple at a flea market - this is a wonderful crazy world ...). Interesting u-ex(perimental) concerts are coming up with a.o. the Californian group Cosmologic around Jason Robinson, the Rotterdam Rikenik and the Norwegian improv trio Artdirectors.

• 2007-02-02, 11:24

  We finished the recordings (except some dub's we still have to do) with mWWm. This is going to be a really nice CD and the best I have recorded thus far. I have bought new stuff: this time a wooden Mancke headjoint and a Okada wooden concert flute. Sounds really good. Check out some Yazz flute on youtube. lol.

• 2007-01-13, 15:05

  The latest performance with the new band of our fabulous oud player Kerim Eharuyyen went well and had great reactions from the public. If Allah is merciful we might go to Morocco this summer. At Sarnamitv.nl you find at the last 6 minutes of the programme of 19'th of december 2006 an interview and clip of the song 'kaise badal gaile itna' performed by Raj Mohan and his Ensemble featuring also me white guy.

• 2007-01-06, 15:05

  Together with bass player Meinrad Kneer I am starting a free improvisation concert series with the name u-ex(perimental) we are very exited about. The sessions are held at the SJU Jazzpodium venue evey sunday evening in Utrecht. Please check out the Sju agenda or our home page at my space for the line up.

• 2006-12-20, 16:27

  The Financial Times, London reviewed our Amsterdam concert with mWWm. The internet magazine Jazzenzo published a diary (in Dutch) and some photographs of our tour through Moldavia, Ukraine and Russia with mWWm.

• 2006-11-30, 12:29

  Find some reviews on our Dutch Tour with mWWm at: cultuurpodium and music : world series site

• 2006-11-20, 13:53

  Finally I got my Mancke golden head joint. I feel like a fish in the water ... I suceeded in setting up a myspace.com acount. Why not drop by and check out the videos there?

• 2006-09-26, 11:56

  Just returned from our Russian Tour with mWWm. It was wild! We had great audience and good concerts. A big sucess. We are looking forward for our Dutch gigs now featuring our guests Tibetan singer Namgyal Llhamo and tabla player Sandip Battacharrya. In december we will record our first CD for LopLop records. In the next months gigs are coming up with Raj Mohan's Indian ensemble including his CD presentation, BB Connected (a very nice jazzpop band), as a special guest with the Ad Colen Quartet and with Estrella's Guaijrra.

• 2006-09-10, 21:14

  Our premier with Lotz Of Music Plays: A Dutch View On Fish! worked out very well! The fish videos were excellent, went along smoothly with our music and gave the audience a quite musical underwater experience. Especially Alan Gunga Purves solos performances were quite a show. The crowd enjoyed. We are looking for more gigs now.