Sunday, 30 November 2008

Where is the Music?

Saturday 1st November Emi was out with her friends but I had an awesome evening. There was a festival called "Where Is The Music? 2008" of WISM for short. Playing were Jamie Cullum with Soil and "Pimp" Sessions (Japanese "Death Jazz" group), Medeski Martin & Wood (from NYC) and Cyro Baptista & Branquet of the Spirits (Brazil and NY).
Jamie and the Pimps were up first. Good atmosphere,good songs, very enjoyable. Only complaint was that they had the volume turned up to 11, a Germany girl and Swiss lad I got chatting with outside didn't appreciate it.
Next up was Cyro and his group. For the first 3rd of their session Cryo's mic wasn't working and the Japanese crew didn't seem to be doing much about it, much to the anoyance of the group. The music was fairly good up to that point. Then they changed Cyro's mic over and suddenly the whole thing came alive. It was definately the best musical experience of my live, it was absolutely unbelievable. It was almost like some sort of drug free high.
To finish were the final group. I felt really sorry for them because they were obviously extremely good but felt like a masive comedown after Cryo's and his crew. Very enjoyable.
So in summary I"m so glad I stumbled upon this concert by accident, if I had known what it was like before but wasn't able to go I would have moved heaven and earth to be there.
Sunday was quite relaxing, I didn't make any notes. However I woke up at 2am in the morning to watch the last F1 race of the year in Brazil. If you didn't see it, you really missed out on the most heart stopping race ever - hollywood couldn't have come up with a better script. And best of all Lewis Hamilton became the youngest every World Champion, he has plenty of years to beat Schumacher's record if he chooses to and has the right fortune.

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