Mumbai report

I am in Mumbai. This is a city beyond words. It is to grand, messy, beautiful, strange, hectic, colourful, mad and friendly to even try to describe. I got in a few days ago to do some shows in town. This is a new and very exiting market. All music people I meet are so curious, hungry and focused on their job and it is a total pleasure. Things don´t work in teh same way here as they do in the western part of the world. That is a part of the charm. Always expect the unexpected, and recieve it with great patience. That´s what I thought before I got here..and yes..it was true, still....I must say things have been working out smoothly all along. We played a festival in Mumbai, The Moodi festival, on the university campus at 2 in the afternoon. Before the show me and my musicians were judges for their own talent contest. Like being in the Indian Idol, but...let´s say, slightly more basic.....I had a great time. Then the show was fab and I really enjoyed myself. The first gig in India. Interesting. I also must say I love the Indian people. Warm and happy with almost always smiling faces. For a reason? yes, sometimes, but generally, I find Indian people being really eagre to help.

There is a lot of time spent in the car here.....the traffic is absurd. Also, for me, being an air -conditioning allergic it is tough to cruise around the city for 2 hours in the madness with all windows down:):):) And that is 2 hours one way...then the next 2 back.....but ..hey....everything works......this is Mumbai.

A Beginner in Bombay

Less than a week and I am off to India. Exiting?very much so! I am traveling with my band and fellow musicians, a swedish group called Moneybrother. We are attending the Moodi Festival in Mumbai on dec 21st in a collaboration with the Swedish Institute.  The I have a few performances more in Mumbai, along with promo and a jury attendance. This feels like a new beginning. A new market, and from what I have understood, India is just now opening up to the western music and culture in away that has not happened before. I love these collaborations where different cultures meet and interfere with each-other. I have already made some new Indian friends and I look forward being a beginner in this wonderful, chaotic, colorful, rich and poor living in the now kind of city of Mumbai.  I´ll keep you posted.....