Touring 2011.

2011 has been a great year. Oh so great! It has been a year on the road: everything started on March with our concerts in Paris, Berlin and Leipzig.

Live at Schokoladen (Berlin, March 2011)

After it, a beautiful 3 months tour in the US. San Francisco, our new US hometown gave us the chance to discover an incredible bunch of west coast- based musicians. Their music and the ocean inspired a lot of new songs. I hope to record most of them at the end of this  year.

(Boston – April 2011 – Cloud Club garden)

(Live at Kaleidoscope – San Francisco)

After these incredible and unforgettable experiences we came back to Europe. On November we started a new tour for the PPZK songwriters festival around Italy and Germany. We shared the stage with great musicians like Peter Piek, Matt Hopper, Lucky Fonz III, John Elliot…each night we played our own sets and as a band on each other’s songs. What an experience!I recommend you to listen to these  passionate artists.

(Live in Erfurt (DE) @Unikum)

We’re planning a new European tour for next May. We’re going to play in Swiss, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands and France. We can’t wait to be on the road again.

Love, Jolanda.

Europe

Jolanda and Demian – Nuvolari Festival July 2011

Back home, back to Europe, after 3 months in the US Playing and traveling around. Is there any better thing to do?

A new journey is going to start, we’re planning a new European tour. France and Germany are on the list.  Summer days are passing slowly, reading books and working on new songs. Waiting for the first autumn leaves to start a new journey.

Blurbs – Us tour 2011

During my travels around the world I met great musicians, I’ve been astonished by their music and I’m glad we spent some time together. Music is in everything in everyday life, not only on stage or in an album, music is in every gesture, in every word, in every thought of a true musician. And I’m sure those people I met know this. They have music deep inside and they are simply beautiful and precious.  They wrote some words  about me and my music.  I’m going to continue this collection  as a diary of my travels.  Next to the words you can find a link to their music.  I hope this can help to spread wonderful music around.

Enjoy!

Jolanda

“We (Moraine) had the great good fortune of sharing a bill in Seattle with Jolanda and were dazzled by the duo’s exquisitely crafted set. It’s increasingly rare nowadays to encounter a singer-songwriter who combines such a ravishing, powerful voice with impeccable musicianship, depth of feeling, intelligence, and arresting imagery.”

Dennis Rea and Moraine  (Seattle) http://www.moraineband.com/about.cfm and http://www.dennisrea.com/about.cfm

“Jolanda and Demian’s duo performance was nothing short of stunning. Jolanda’s voice is unique and simply beautiful. Demian’s work on the guitar is exceptional and very tastefully complements Jolanda’s voice and piano-play. The music is haunting, amazingly creative and is performed with such devotion and emotion that I got a royal set of goose-bumps that literally lasted through the entire set. It was an honor and a great pleasure to meet this super-talented Italian band and be able to share a stage with them. They are some of the nicest people one will ever meet and I mean it. We look forward to seeing you in Italy!”

Dino Haak (Seattle) http://www.dinohaakcollective.com/

“Jolanda’s music is delicate, intricate, but also regal, elegant, and unabashedly self-assured. Jolanda’s voice carries with it confidence, strength and power ~ a clarion call to fierce and passionate arms.”

Mali Sastri – Jaggery (Boston) http://www.jaggery.org/

“A quirky yet epic soundtrack to a child’s nightmare… very inspired piano playing. the music borderlines heavy metal at times… lots of personality in the songs that translates beautifully on stage. I expect to see animated, stop-motion, henry selick-directed music videos!”

Mark Nelsen – Electric Shepherd (San Francisco) http://www.myspace.com/electricshepherdmusic

New York City tour diary- pt.2

March 31th – Arlene’s Grocery
April 4th – The Delancey (Small Beast)
April 5th – The Shrine

I love to set the stage before a concert. While carving out a space for piano and guitar, we try to bring life to a familiar setting, to be filled with music.                                                                                                                                             During the concert the songs, influenced by our thoughts and our mood, develop a life of their own. Everytime, the first notes of a piece are like the first brushstrokes on white canvas.       We know what is our aim, but everytime we end up by painting a different picture – and it’s awesome.       Played in the Village and in Harlem, the songs assumed new shades, feeling, meaning: people were ready to listen, whatever is the style and the message, and ready to get involved. In New York we received encouragement, smiles, warm-heartedness, even a chocolate bar “to mend your heart”, during the Lower East Side concert.

Live@The Delancey for Small Beast Series – NYC April 4th 2011 – Video by Salvatore D’Alia

  Amo la preparazione del palco prima di un concerto. Ritagliandoci lo spazio per piano e chitarra cerchiamo di dar vita ogni volta ad un ambiente familiare, da riempire con la musica.
Durante il concerto, però, le canzoni  sviluppano una vita propria, influenzate dai nostri pensieri e dallo stato d’animo. Ogni volta, le prime note di un brano sono le prime pennellate su una tela bianca.
Sappiamo quello che vogliamo raggiungere, ma il bello è che ogni volta finiamo per dipingere un quadro diverso.
Nei concerti del Village e ad Harlem le canzoni hanno assunto nuove sfumature, emozioni e significati: il pubblico è pronto ad ascoltare, qualunque sia lo stile e il messaggio, e si lascia coinvolgere. A New York abbiamo ricevuto incoraggiamento, sorrisi, calore e persino della cioccolata “to mend your heart”, durante il concerto nel Lower East Side.

New York City tour diary- pt.1

One more time on our way to the Village, from Long Island to Brooklyn, among the trees in Central Park and the surrounding steel and glass. Piano and a guitar by the Lower East Side, then at night through Harlem’s streets, in time for another show. Get out, just walk and be inspired, New York will fill your eyes, your ears and your heart. (Jolanda)

New York gives you the idea of what the world can become if you remove the in-between spaces from things and people: here everything is at hand, and everybody feels at hand, sooner or later.
(Demian)

Thank you: Edgey and Delila, Jeremy, Salvatore e Lucia e Alberta, the guy on the LIRR train, Frank, Coffe and Bagles.

  Ancora una volta a piedi nel Village, da Long Island a Brooklyn, tra gli alberi di Central Park e il vetro e l’acciaio circostanti. Un piano e una chitarra nel Lower East Side e poi di notte nelle strade di Harlem in tempo per un altro concerto. Esci, cammina e lasciati ispirare, New York ti riempie gli occhi, le orecchie e il cuore. (Jolanda)

New York offre l’idea di quello che può diventare il mondo eliminando gli spazi vuoti tra cose e  persone: tutto, proprio tutto è a portata di mano, e tutti prima o poi si sentono a portata di mano a loro volta.
(Demian)

Traveling is music

Traveling is music: by traveling, music itself gets bigger, growing up to new perspectives. I can’t imagine music without traveling.

Cities, faces, horizons, everything influences the traveler, becoming a part of his/her life and his/her music.

Our new U.S. tour will be accompanied with videos, pics and original drawings by Tinoshi (www.tinoshi.it)

  Il viaggio è musica, con esso la musica stessa cresce, matura attraverso nuove prospettive. Non riesco ad immaginare la musica senza il viaggio.   Città, volti, orizzonti, tutto influenza il viaggiatore,  diventando parte della sua vita e della sua musica.

Il nostro nuovo tour negli Stati Uniti  verrà accompagnato da video, foto e illustrazioni originali del Tinoshi www.tinoshi.it