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Dear everyone

As usual, going on tour has meant I have had to leave this website to the side, as it has been so intense: travelling, soundchecking, playing, logistics and admin, posting stories from the live shows on Instagram before they disappear, as well as a couple of posts while on the road, all going on simultaneously… It – predictably – took me a long time to recover from the West Coast jetlag when I got back on 13th May, and I am ready to leave again for the last 4 shows.

I am keeping the custom I started on the last tour of joining people’s stories together to create reels on Instagram and I am also posting them on Youtube, in spite of the images’ vertical format: I love having these as memories, and hopefully some of you too will be happy to see them, whether or not you were there.

So here are 3 reels from the Barcelona shows in Casa Montjuic and Laut, with the third reel focusing on the new song I now play at the end of every show, entitled “Amor”. I will record the song this summer and release it as a Bandcamp exclusive for future fundraising for animals, so more soon on this.

I will try to post my adventures in Chicago and the West Coast, where I celebrated my 50th birthday, soon.

As usual THANK YOU so much for your support, it means so much to me!

Next 4 shows: 10 June @icalondon – LONDON, UK – 11 June @botanique_bxl – BRUSSELS, BE

– 20 June @infinitodelicias – MADRID, ES – 22 June @wakinglife.pt  – CRATO, PT

MEMORIES FROM @rewirefestival , CONCORDIA, 11TH APRIL 2026 Part I: LIVE PREMIERE OF “LIBRES ANTES DEL FINAL” @thrilljockey
Officially entering my “I prefer to play standing venues” era: I have proof people moved their bodies, and this made me sooo happy as I was hoping this would happen 😀😀😀
Heart also full now from the two shows in Barcelona @foggyhexbcn @casa.montjuic @lautconcert last Sunday 

US tour starts this Saturday and goes on in Europe
2 May Long Play @bangonacan @publicrecordsnyc – NEW YORK, NY
3 May @makingtimeisrad @johnnybrendas – PHILADELPHIA, PA
6 May @constellationchicago – CHICAGO, IL
7 May @beacon_sound @friendsofnoise – PORTLAND, OR
9 May @thelabsf – SAN FRANCISCO, CA
11 May @pehrspace @2220arts – LA, CA
26 May @silent.green – BERLIN, DE
10 June @icalondon – LONDON, UK
11 June @botanique_bxl – BRUSSELS, BE
20 June @infinitodelicias – MADRID, ES
22 June @wakinglife.pt – CRATO, PT

LIBRES ANTES DEL FINAL REAMPING @casa.montjuic with @owt_taller_de_sonido : PART II – 📷 Morgiane Rebouh @gigi_storming

Playing tomorrow in Barcelona at @casa.montjuic and @lautconcert with @foggyhexbcn loops the loop for me in so many ways. 
2 years ago, on 20th April 2024, I decided to overcome my fear of water by learning to swim in the sea here in Barcelona. This decision opened up a whole new path for me mentally and physically and seeped into my vision for the album: compositions and synthesis were directly shaped by the idea of bodily movement, physicality and fluidity. 
I also decided very early on that one of the things I would do for this album would be to reamp it in my favorite venue in town, Casa Montjuic: Mexican sound engineer Oswaldo Terrones @owt_taller_de_sonido came with some of his own microphones and we rented the famous binaural Fritz head from @joelcondal , and assisted by Joel’s assistant @xeniafontt and the venue’s sound engineer Oriol Estu, we spent Sunday 19th October 2025 recording the album’s finished stereo tracks in the venue.
It was a peaceful and yet intense atmosphere: peaceful because we had chosen a Sunday due to the massive road work happening near the venue, plunged in darkness most of the time as we switched off the lights to minimize sound pollution; intense because of the music sounding way more foreboding once amplified.
Thank you so much Morgiane Rebouh @gigi_storming for being there and capturing the atmosphere with your beautiful photos.

Tomorrow I get to play 2 shows presented by my dear @foggyhexbcn: @casa.montjuic 7 pm now sold out, with @takiononqoy opening with a DJ set, @lautconcert next door 9 pm with @franciscososa closing the night. I had some amazing time dancing at the club, and this experience of dancing also shaped the album, so I’m super excited to be playing in the middle of the room tomorrow with everyone standing and – hopefully – moving to the music.
Playing in Barcelona also means I get to give back a little bit of what I received through the town’s active modular scene and the numerous events organized by @barcelonamodularsociety and @elevatorsound_eu
Muchas ganas de veros alli! :-)

I have played live for nearly 24 years now, in all sorts of configurations, always with the common point that there has been no safety net: nothing is prerecorded, no gear has presets and I’m always alone on stage. 
Some concerts end up being particularly memorable from a personal and artistic point of view, and when this confluence happens, it is a minor miracle, renewed proof that all the effort needed to be on that stage is worth it: the rehearsing time, the travel, the logistics and administration, the “putting yourself out there” to keep existing as a musician both in recording and live (I am booking myself worldwide now, so I can see those last aspects from the inside exactly as they are).
As soon as I saw that Libres antes del final would be released in late March, I hoped for Rewire to be the place where I would premiere it, and I not only got to play it once, but twice.
9 days have passed since that first show in Concordia and the second one at Theater aan het Spui and I am still feeling high: one of the loveliest audiences ever (in general and in a festival context, and not just at my show: people were amazing at all the shows I attended), powerful and precise sound that gave a whole other dimension to the music, for the first show in Concordia a room just hot enough to make everyone loosen up and actually start DANCING (I could not believe it, a dream come true), and within me as I played both shows a growing sense that this album is a new beginning, that I get to reinvent myself as many times as I choose, no matter how old I am, and that the whole point of doing this is to just be at one with the music and the sound and the audience. 
Jan Rijk @dutchpix‘s photo at Theater aan het Spui captures exactly how happy I felt and I want to keep it as a memory of those precious 2 shows.
Thank you so much Bronne Keesmaat for giving me the opportunity to play at this astoundingly curated festival, everyone @rewirefestival for the top quality hospitality, the audience for being so into the music, the incredible musicians for the inspiration and Jan @dutchpix for his wonderful photo.

Dear everyone, I am back from Rewire where I had the time of my life, both on stage (it was seriously the happiest and most liberated I ever felt playing music live) and off the stage as an audience member.

Before I left, we had finally just published the full video from my MATRIARCH DEEP DIVE WORSKHOP at my beloved ELEVATOR SOUND EU in Barcelona, the modular shop that acts as a central hub for the modular community in Barcelona, and which has been very important in improving my own synthesis journey through the numerous events it hosts, and as I already said, preparing for this workshop was key to making progress on Libres antes del final.

Here is a short excerpt of the title song I put on my own Youtube Channel

And you can see the FULL VIDEO below, in Spanish but with English subtitles, which for the most part are correct haha.

I also had the pleasure of doing a DANCEABLE MIX for FOGGY HEX’s OUTSIDERS SHOW on KIOSK RADIO: LISTEN HERE!

Foggy Hex is headed by my dear friend Jorge Paez, who invited me several times on his former radio programmes on Dublab. They have organized wonderful shows in Barcelona over the past couple of years and are organizing my DOUBLE SHOW in Casa Montjuic and Laut in Barcelona next week, Sunday 26th April LINK TO EVENT AND TICKETS

Casa Montjuic, where I reamped the last album, is nearly sold out, and Jorge will open the evening with a DJ set, but tickets are still available for Laut, its sister venue and club next door, where I will play in the middle of the room and where the idea is to get us moving: when doors open, we will listen to the set I made for Foggy Hex’s Kiosk programme, while I set up my gear, I will then play the album and extra material, and Francisco Sosa, who is part of Barcelona Modular Society, will be closing the night at Laut with his exquisitely danceable modular set.

Here are some words I wrote about the mix, I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did

“I composed the bulk of Libres antes del final from December 2024 to September 2025, corresponding exactly with a period of time during which I sought to move my body on a daily basis, mostly through activities that I had interrupted for more than 30 years such as swimming and table tennis, and through activities I had never practised, such as self-defense classes and dancing, and it is through the prism of this new love for – and freedom found in – dancing that I chose the tracks included in this mix, as they are some of the songs that made me move the most during that time of album-making.

Dancing somehow enabled me to connect all the dots at that point of my personal and musical evolution: I gained a more physical understanding of rhythm through finally letting my body connect with it, which was exactly what I needed to give a stronger sense of pulse to my own music, even without incorporating traditional drum machine sounds (the only rhythms you hear on the album are all synthesis-made). But I also crucially – for the first time in years – rediscovered the joy of truly focusing on listening to music, which I had somehow lost along the way, and those songs made for joyful solitary dancing sessions on the tatami floor in my flat or the community terrace where I live, once I checked no one was watching.

I hope that this selection will make you feel like losing yourself and connecting to the music through dancing too.”