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2008年07月26日
European Tour <2>
The rainbow which I saw at Charles de Gaule airport gave me energy while I was traveling around for 2 months alone.
After that, I was encouraged by the beautiful scenery and warm words which I met everywhere.
This tour started from an offer by a European musician who listened to my CD, " Cielo."
When I started planning a tour by making contact with several friends in Europe, building out from the concert in July, Yuichi gave me a plan about a European tour in May, and in the end I did a 2 month long tour.
At first, I planned 10 improvised concerts, but as I started the tour, the musicians who played with me and came to my concerts organised a lot of new concerts, and in the end I played 24 concerts in 2 months. ( 4 La Veuve Mustache concerts and 20 improvised concerts.)
A man from a label offered to make a CD, Itaru Oki played with me, and my CD was played on the radio.
It was enjoyable!
This time, I improvised not only on acoustic piano but also electric piano, toy piano, and played 2 pianos ( one of them was tuned, the other was out of tune) at once.
It was exciting!!
The wine which I drank after the concerts tasted excellent!!!
投稿者 yokomiura : 23:02
European Tour <1>
I'm really sleepy because I stayed up until 3 o'clock copying the new virsion of one of the songs in "La Veuve Mustache," named "Day after Day, and I got up at 5 o'clock.
This time I had a window seat, and I fully enjoyed the scenery from the window of the plane.
The scenery of Siberia is in a class of its own.
There were so many mountains arroyed in the frame of the window that I felt dizzy!
It looked as if the waves of the ocean had frozen and become mountains.
The shapes of the mountains changed little by little as the plane passed by.
It was amazing, and I couldn't stop watching them!
On the Baltic Sea, the sky and the sea blended with each other, and the islands, edged by beaches like lace, seemed to float in the sky.
Clouds like dolphins which floated above the sky of Stockholm, clouds which were transparent like lace on the waves of the sea, and cottony clouds like doughnuts.
When the plane was going to land, a town as pretty as a picture, Copenhagen, appeared before my eyes.
I changed planes, and went toward Paris.
The sea was rolling like a soft skin, and the clouds I saw, transparent like a veil, seemed to be folded several times.
When the plane arrived at Charles de Gaule airport, one of the crew who got off before me was whistling a song, "Over the Rainbow,"and I saw a big rainbow in the sky.
投稿者 yokomiura : 22:31