Band on the Road

Notes from the experimental music underground.

From Belgium to Poland, follow Edmonton's Ensemble Mujirushi on their first European tour ever.

Day 7 Part 2: Maximum rock 'n' roll

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Day 7 Part 1: The snapping point

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Day 6: Crack-up in Kraków

Our Saturday, 21 November performance is part of the "prestigious" (as they say) Audio Art Festival, founded and led from the beginning by Marek Choloniewski .  This is  the 17th edition of the festival and after seventeen years one would expect that organization should be flawless, shouldn't it?  Nothing of the sort.  In the morning, we appear in the concert space, called Bunkier Sztuki (The Arts Bunker), where our rehearsal and then performance are supposed to take place.  Nothing is ready.  An international photo exhibition is happening on the main floor, hundreds of people invading the space.  Our performance is in the basement, but the basement is inaccessible because there are some classes for children there.  How come this was not … Read More

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Day 5: On the (UNESCO-approved) town

The day after the performance at the Parnassus Theatre in Gent, André Posman takes us to Brussels, prolonging the utmost pleasure of being in his company - and saving us a little money, too.  Our parting is genuinely touching, as this soft-spoken, gentle man is goodness incarnate. 

At the Brussels airport we have to catch a Brussels Airlines flight to Kraków, Poland, where the second leg of our tour opens.  We do not understand the rationale behind paying extra for every kilogramme above the twenty, or so, Brussels Airlines allots its passengers.  It costs us €60 to get our luggage finally sent through, and then we fly to Kraków on a huge and practically empty Boeing machine that probably could, if need be, transport tanks, or bomb a non-white … Read More

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Day 4: All quiet on the Flanders front.

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Day 3: Courting disaster.

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Day 2: The Unforgettable City, or, smaller is better.

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Day 1 Part 2: On the road.

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Day 1 Part 1: Who are we and what are we doing, or, THEATRE OF NEW MUSIC.

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Meet Ensemble Mujirushi

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