{"id":804,"date":"2016-09-26T22:37:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T22:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/?p=804"},"modified":"2016-09-26T22:37:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T22:37:34","slug":"the-austrian-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/?p=804","title":{"rendered":"The Austrian connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a little blip in the middle of a pretty busy fall:<\/p>\n<p>I paid a visit to Austria last week (mountains and lakes), where I met up with multi-instrumentalist Herbert K\u00f6nighofer for the first time ever. We played three concerts, in Salzburg, Hallstatt and Vienna, the last of which was recorded and can be viewed here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/183723183\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, we had a pretty good time and we connected well.<br \/>\nI got to play around with my pedal board, especially the Ditto looper came in really handy, but also harmonizer and ring modulator are in good use.<br \/>\nThe co-operation is sure to continue, maybe already as soon as mid-October.<br \/>\n(For regular updates check the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SidHilleOfficial\/#\">SatnaMusic Facebook<\/a> site or follow my\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sidhille\">Twitter<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-805\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3057-e1474927710189-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"pedal board\" width=\"322\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3057-e1474927710189-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3057-e1474927710189-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3057-e1474927710189-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3057-e1474927710189-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3057-e1474927710189-800x800.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3057-e1474927710189-640x640.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3057-e1474927710189-160x160.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3057-e1474927710189.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After finishing a new big band composition\u00a0this week (ominously titled &#8216;Spotify my Jazz&#8217;) I am now getting ready for next week&#8217;s concert of the Contemporary Collective. We&#8217;re playing at the legendary Digelius record shop on Helsinki&#8217;s Five Corner Square on October 3rd. Come and pop in, it&#8217;s free entrance and they always\u00a0have a bombastic atmosphere there, a comfy\u00a0sofa and a great host, the owner of the shop: Emu!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-806\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CoCo-Digelius-poster-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"coco-digelius-poster\" width=\"317\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CoCo-Digelius-poster-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CoCo-Digelius-poster-768x547.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CoCo-Digelius-poster-1024x729.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CoCo-Digelius-poster-1123x800.jpg 1123w, http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CoCo-Digelius-poster-899x640.jpg 899w, http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CoCo-Digelius-poster-640x456.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last not least, I&#8217;d like to mention that UGETSU is gathering some very nice reviews. I might play some of it live in Digelius\u00a0and\u00a0of course they&#8217;ll have the record there, vinyl and CD.<br \/>\nActually, why not turn this into a\u00a0little\u00a0lottery: the first person to come up to me in Digelius saying &#8216;Hi, I came to listen to your gig because I read your blog&#8217; will get a free copy of UGETSU right there and then. How does that sound?<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you there,<\/p>\n<p>Sid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a little blip in the middle of a pretty busy fall: I paid a visit to Austria last week (mountains and lakes), where I met up with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sidhille.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}