@ Jethro's Manor this Sunday

Afternoon at Jethro's Manor with Fri Resonans
Sunday 16. january 2011 at 15:00
in the beautiful settings of Jethro's Manor, 42 Fraser Street, Brunswick
(come round the back, we'll be in the garden)

mini-festival of improvised music from norway, australia and africa

The Norwegian festival Fri Resonans is presenting some of its core musicians in Australia this January. Guitarists Kim Myhr and Håvard Volden and singer Jenny Hval will be joined by Dutch pianist and instrument builder, Cor Fuhler, Brunswick locals Dale Gorfinkel and Robbie Avenaim as well as a grooving melbourne african percussion ensemble.

Robbie Avenaim (Australia) - solo percussion
Jenny Hval/Håvard Volden (Norway) - guitars/voice
Kim Myhr/Cor Fuhler/Dale Gorfinkel (Norway/Holland/Australia) - guitars/piano/vibes/contraptions
Yele Yele - Ousmane Sonko, Tawanda Gazidkwa, nathaniel coombs + more (senegal/zimbabwe/australia)

Outdoor stuff by Dale and Cor (also playing the keyolin, it's Oz premiere!!)

cool drinks and food provided. byo too.
families welcome.
pets welcome.
friends welcome.
friends of friends welcome.
So, bloody COME!!!!!

Amsterdam again

So, off to Amsterdam again tomorrow for a gig with the Corkestra at the Melkweg and for the Doekfestival:
http://www.doek.org/festival_9/festival_9.html
in which I shall be playing with my new jazz group "the Gap" with Tobias Delius on clarinet, Steve Heather on drums and Jan Roder on acoustic bass.
Looking forward to seeing my father who as been very ill but okay now. So hard living so far away from your family in those conditions....

Thornbury

So, finally setled down in Melbourne. Found a nice house on Mansfield street in Thornbury. Getting back to a routine now, kids in school, so no more home teaching by me (which I actually liked doing).

Norway was great, such a wonderfull place. Good to be back in Amsterdam for a week, catching up with friends and family. But really looking forward to going back now to wife and kids....

Moved to Oz.

After 10 days straight of 36 degrees Celsius in Singapore, pfff....

Interesting city though.

Still adjusting, at the moment in Canberra, but soon going to Pambula beach and Sydney for 2 months, catching up with all Sydney folks.

Fixed my nice '56 Höfner jazzbox, having been thrown around by airplane people......

Teaching my 2 boys reading/writing/counting/music and swimming every day, compensating for the lack of school hopefully.

We're working on a Holland/France tour, end of Oktober/beginning November

There is now a Corkestra myspace page at:

http://www.myspace.com/corkestra

And working on jazz pieces for guitar, vibraphone, bass and drums. Hopefully touring Oz sometime with this.

Yep, not much activity here

Too busy moving to Oz

but for anyone trying to reach me in the future

my email adress will be corfuhler followed by  the not uncommon gmail dot, well, com, I guess

and don't be shy....

 Above is the last gig I did yesterday, me Wilbert and live painting (done by Tali Farchi)

Old stuff

Have been listening to various old recordings from the past. To see if there is something amongst it worthwhile after all these years.

--- Me

--- Misha Mengelberg 

--- Michiel Scheen 

 I organised once a trio in the Eusebius church in Arnhem. A church with a 9 (!) second delay. There was a grand organ, a choir organ, a Hammond organ and a harmonium. We swapped seats all the time. Recorded "98. Some very, very (!) weird stuff...

---trio Fuhler - Bennink - de Joode

--- + Thomas Lehn

Funny!, space jazz and beyond.... made me smile a mile

(from 2001 I think)

--- me - piano

--- Toshimaru Nakamura - no unput mixer

--- Oren Ambarchi - guitar & electronics

I organised this trio for the Doekfestival in 2004. 

The piano sounds (too) loud all the time, but that's also because Toshi and Oren played very little. Still sounds good as a whole though. Makes me wonder about density, it's very differently persieved form a jungle perspective or a desert perspective. Both very valid.

--- me - piano, string instrumetns, synth stuff

--- Steve Heather - big drum, percussion, super 8 film

Not really a recording but an installation we did in 2005. The idea came from Steve: 2 main instruments (grand piano and very large bass drumm) with a circel of smaller instruments around it, being played by 2 rotating machines. Around the piano mostly string instruments and around the bass drumm mostly percussion stuff. Additionaly we both had all kinds of machines to play the objects of our choise + the additional super 8 films and analogue electronics.

Our good friend Dick Lucas recorded 20 + minutes of this installation and it still sounded very good to my ears.

--- me - piano, EMS putney, keyolin, cracklebox

--- Jim O'Rourke - computer, organ, EMS Synthi A

A concert we did in 2000, live at the Empty Bottle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music in Chicago. Well..., mmm,  it survives in my opinion. Very 2000.... but it was a good year... I could hear things comming up....

Who knows...

Now off to the woods of Limburg for a holliday.

Back in over a week or so