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Ron Anderson and PAK Europe Autumn 2002

From September 20~October 21, 2002, Ron Anderson toured in Europe with PAK, conducted music workshops, performed solo, duets with various musicians and gave one surprise concert with RonRuins.

Ray, Xavier Charles and Jesse in front of Cafe Intro a small club in Dudelange, Luxembourg. Xavier is a great clarinetist and composer who was kind enough to drive us to the concert from Verdun, France. Luxembourg is a nice place to start a tour and to warm up for the festival the next night.

Three Photos of PAK at Festival Fresnes en Watt - Fresnes en Woevre, France. Ron Anderson (left), Race Age (center), Jesse Krakow tries to distract RA (right) at during a difficult musical passage. Photos by Michel Oury.

Etage 34 played Fresnes en Watt the same night with a powerful set. Right, Dominique Répécaud-Mariage (RA performed with Dominique, Jean Michael Mariage and Ray Sage in Paris a few days later.) Center, Daniel Koskowitz, Left, Olivier Paquotte.

Day after the festival Ray on top of a old machine gun pill box at one the battle fields of Verdun, France. More history on Verdun: fifty million shells to kill an estimated one million people in nine months. Horrible.

Photos of PAK live in Lille, France taken by Philippe Lenglet. 10/2/02

Does anyone know the name of this guy? I first met him during on of the first Molecules concerts in Bordeaux, France. He was playing insanely outside of the club during our sound check so I invited him to do a short set and open up for the Molecules. Nice surprise to see him open the show in Bordeaux for PAK in a group called Erez Martinic. After all these years he still plays like a madman.

Dinner in Brest, France with members of Zwieback.

Oldenburg, Germany

Hops and Matthias of Kaus in a field of Windmills and cows. I did a solo concert with Kaus in Oldenburg and then we drove to Amsterdam where I did a solo. Hops sat in on drums for a bit.

All over northern Germany hundreds (thousands) are huge Wind Turbines (windmills) making clean energy. I heard a lot of talk about how they make alot of noise, with dangerous low frequencies. I wanted to hear this for myself. They do make a swishing sound, which I found to be very pleasant, like the ocean, but you have to be very close to hear them at all. They also look incredible, like giants, their arms keeping time spinning in the wind.

More on Wind Turbines
Wind Turbines and Noise

Massimo of the band ZU and his girlfriend at their place in outside of Rome, Italy. I was lucky to have a day off to spend with them sleeping on the beach of the Mediterranean Sea, a short distance from their apartment. Massimo set up my tour of Italy: concert with RonRuins in Faenza, solo in Lecce, duet with Claudio Parodi in Bologna follow by a recording session with Claudio in Genoa.

I gave a two day workshop on Improvisation in Metz, France and the a concert with Michel Oury on the third day. After the second day of the workshop Michel and I drove to Nancy to see Frederic Le Junter give a solo concert with home made musical instruments and machines.

When I'm in Paris I always visit my friend Jac Berrocal. In the late 70's early 80's Jac was in a band called Catalog. Check out their CD on Hat Hut called Penetration.

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