I was invited by the wonderful folks in the Observatory band from Singapore to create a new work for their ambitious BlackKaji Radio series. This project was instigated as a way to generate activity and support artists in place of their usual live series in Singapore which has been inactive due to the Covid pandemic. The Radio series kicked off at the beginning of January 2021. My short piece ‘silently overlapping each other‘ premiered on episode 3 of their online radio series, more details and online listening can be reached here. My piece appears third on the Part 1 of this episode. I recommend checking out the whole series as it’s filled with very diverse collaborations, new works and interviews with some wonderful artists primarily based in East and South East Asia.

Full episode access can be found through their Soundcloud channel.

What? a live concert? YES!

I am thrilled to be heading to Riga, Latvia for a duo performance with Oren Ambarchi on Friday, October 10 as part of the Skaņu Mežs’ Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts. This will be my first concert since the lockdown back in March and also my first time performing in Latvia. Very much looking forward!

I recently did an interview with David Perron at Free Form Freakout, primarily about my new solo record Beside Myself, while also touching on the state of things at this current moment in time…

Link here

My second solo LP – Beside Myself – is officially out in the world today courtesy of US based label, Students of Decay. I am so grateful for the support of SOD / Alex Cobb for taking this project on and for the ongoing support of the folks at Morr Music. I am also extremely grateful to my dear friends and collaborators whose support I am indebted to for this record (and much more!); James Rushford, Joerg Hiller, Joe Talia, Francis Plagne and my partner Oren Ambarchi.

The beautiful cover for this release is a painting titled ‘lace‘ by Manitoba, Canada based painter Melanie Rocan. This painting and much more of Melanie’s work can be seen on her website here. Huge thanks to Melanie for letting me use this wonderful and evocative painting, which matched the atmosphere of this album so well.

The album is available on LP / digital through Forced Exposure (US), Anost (EU), Boomkat (UK) and many more distros and shops worldwide.

A digital version of the LP is available on my Bandcamp here.

Oren Ambarchi and I are doing a small but very busy tour in BC (Canada) and the USA over the next 9 days. Details for all of the shows here:

February 15 – SOLO / SOLO – Annex, Vancouver BC 

February 16 – DUO – the White Room, Nanaimo BC 

February 17 – DUO – Cavity Curiosity Shop, Victoria BC 

February 18 – DUO – Zebulon, Los Angeles CA *early show 7:30 PM start.

February 20 – crys SOLO + DUO – the Lab, San Francisco CA 

February 22 – DUO – Public Records, Brooklyn NY 

February 24 – SOLO / SOLO – Frequency Festival, Chicago IL

This coming Saturday, February 15, Oren Ambarchi and I will travel to Vancouver Canada to perform solo sets at a special concert organized by Vancouver New Music. We are both honored to be invited back by Giorgio Mangnanensi and this wonderful organization for this special event. Full details about the concert are online here.

On Saturday February 1, I will head to the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane (AU) to kick off the 2020 MONO concert series curated by Lawrence English. I will share this bill with a new project by Austrian artist Werner Dafeldecker and Australia video artist Scott Morrison. Looking forward to return to Brisbane to present new work as part of this great series!

Full details here.

photo by Robert Szkolnicki. 

To kick off the new year I will be heading south to Launceston, Tasmania (AU) for the great Mona Foma Festival this January 17 – 19 2020. At Mona Foma i will present two of my projects in concert;

• Saturday Jan 18 at Midnight w/ Ora Clementi – my duo with James Rushford  

• Sunday Jan 19 at 10:30 PM w/ Oren Ambarchi.

looking forward!