Category Archives: MUSIC
What Happened in 2021?
ForewordDear reader,let me reassure you from the beginning: this is not a post about what happened in the world in the past year. It is ...
My Father Is Not Adolf Hitler
It’s been a while since my last post. Too much things are happening. Life is back to almost normal. No, wait, there is the new ...
Lebanon is a Death Notice (Corona’s Birthday – Part IV)
In the past year the ever-worsening situation in Lebanon had (and is still having) a huge effect on me. I tried several times to address ...
Stage Fright (Corona’s Birthday – Part II)
As i said in my previous post, one of the reasons I drastically slowed down these diaries was the return to normal we experienced in ...
The “A” Trio: Past, Present and Future
Yesterday night (Feb. 6) we played the first "A" Trio gig in a year, almost day for day; our last concert was on February 8 ...
Diary of an Infection / Day 8: Say it With Music
This self portrait, titled Like a Bird in a Cage, was made late at night on Christmas eve. When I woke up the second morning, ...
I’ve Been Thinking of You Every Day
Each occasion to play music with Ute Wassermann, in private or in concerts, in duo or in one of our various other projects, has been ...
The Difference Between Sadness and Melancholy
I really like to communicate by voice messages. It is faster than writing and less demanding than a phone call. Besides, you can listen to ...
Real Live and/or Streamed Live Music
This is it! This time it is for real. I am really going to play a real concert, with real musicians, for a real audience, ...
Two Months Later (An Evaluation)
When I started writing this post last week, I thought it will just take me a couple of hours to finish it. It ended up ...
Corona House Concert Encore
Based on popular demand (two persons asked for it), I edited and mixed the music of the live concert I played two weeks ago for ...
While I Was Listening to Tony Buck
Last week I was supposed to play the second from a series of three gigs that were to happen in my solo show at the ...
A Blast from My Past
At the risk of repeating myself, I have nowadays much more time to fill up with things that I have no time for in my ...
Percussion Trio
After 6 days of trial and error, i finally managed yesterday to record a piece with 3 overdubs, in replacement of the Sawt Out canceled ...
I Want to Hold Your Hand
This past weekend was a very special one: I recorded my first ever love song, dedicated to and performed with Racha Gharbieh.The song, Your Hand ...
