Funki volgt Afrowhat-band Mdungu tijdens hun tour door Azië. De negenkoppige band blogt over hun ervaringen en deelt zo met de wereld wat voor vele Nederlandse bands een droom is: internationaal touren. Een verslag van hete temperaturen, inclusief muziek, foto's en video's. Aftiteling!
Verslag Job Blog, Shenzhen, 29th september 2011.
The part of Shenzen where we are based, is a cultural neighbourhood. Artists, writers and musicians come here from all over China and the rest of the world. The two owners of a very nice bookshop organise the OCT Loft Jazzfestival. Shenzen is incredibly big and modern. After not eating breakfast in the hotel because it looked and smelled awful, I took a cab to the sea. Had a nice walk, it was very hot and humid.
At three we had to be at the soundcheck but before, I got David from his room to have lunch together so I had duck, while David feasted himself with tiny fish, seasoned with shrimps. Being on tour this week brought us to get to know some other touring bands as well like Busconi from Switzerland. We keep on meeting them in hotellobbys and we tell each other where the good and bad restaurants are. Also I recall Ruben say to me "I am only eating this week, it is time to go jogging or swimming or so!". Well, it really looks like that. From one restaurant to the other and sometimes (actually just two until now) a show to play.
THE SHOW: Yesterday we played at the Shenzen/ Oct Loft Jazz Festival. After one song David asked the seated audience to stand up and dance. They did immediately alltogether and this was the beginning of a highly energetic evening: screaming girls, crowds on the stage while we played "Armee Guineènne" and an encore with an ecstatic saxophone solo by Thijs which seemed to last forever!
After the show it rained cats and dogs because it turned out that a tropical typhoon was nearing the Shenzen regions, but that didn't stop us from having a great afterparty at the bookshop. Shamefully the planned Guangzhou show of today has been cancelled (today, bit of a short notice!!!), so we have an unvolentary day off.
Still we have lots of rain from the typhoon, which luckily decided not to come too close. This made most of the band decide to go and take a look at one of the famous malls in Shenzen. I took a bus to HongKong where I am now in my hotel on the 19th floor, since I will proceed this tour with my other band, the Amsterdam Klezmer Band. Coen Kaldewaij has just jumped on the plane to play my parts in the next show in Korea on Saturday.
A big, BIG thanks-word is going out to all my brothers in Mdungu and also to Jantien aswell as all other people who organised this unforgettable week in South-China! I will be looking forward to next adventures on the Mdungu-blog :-)
Zhezhe, baybay.
Job.
EPILOOG VANUIT HET PERSPECTIEF VAN FRED DE HOND:
Eindelijk uit de tas. Geen idee waar ik ben. Alleen maar lichtjes en lawaai. Als de baas maar weet wat ie aan het doen is, want ik vertrouw het voor geen cent. O wacht volgens mij gaat ie herrie maken met z'n medebaasjes. En ik moet heel nodig m'n poot luchten. Dit dinges ruikt trouwens geweldig....... Zo dat lucht snel nog even typen op die zwart glimmende doosjes. Want ik hoor dat de baas bijna klaar is. Dat is gek zijn ze net klaar gaan ze nog een keer Het voer is super er zitten botten in en volgens mij een stuk of tien beesten die ik nog nooit gehad heb.
