The Journey Itself Is Home

I came back to the hotel recently… we may have found a workable keyboard. It is a Yamaha CP300. I don’t know whether we will buy it or not - it depends on what Björk says. I will know tomorrow.

In spite of technical difficulties the last few days have been pleasant. The day after the concert in Poland a few of us went to Gdansk and spent the entire afternoon just strolling through the city. It is the old Poland… absolutely fantastic. The houses are so beautiful! See a picture I took there below.

It was also fun to visit Copenhagen. I had a great day with Damian, wandering aimlessly around in the center area of the city. And I had a good time in Roskilde, in spite of learning just hours before the concert that the harpsichord had died.

Performing in Roskilde was difficult though - for me, that is. There was no opportunity to have a soundcheck with the instrument I played on, and I really had no idea what the people in the audience were hearing.

In spite of that I must say that I admired the audience for standing in all the rain and listening to us. Really, if any of you are reading this: Thank you!

Bjork.com, with the Volta Blog, died and went to Heaven. Then it reincarnated. And now it’s back!

This was not the only technical problems we have been having. The electronic harpsichord which I have been playing on in most of the Björk songs also died. And unlike the website, there is no hope for a reincarnation. Hopefully it went to Heaven and not to Hell.

Astrologers say that when Mercury is retrograde, things like that happen more frequently. For those who don’t know, a retrograde planet is a planet that moves backwards as seen from the Earth. All the planets go retgrograde from time to time.

I have just arrived in Amsterdam and I don’t really have the time to blog, because in a few minutes I will be going out with my dear collegue, Jez Webb, to check out keyboards.

Will write more tonight.

Yours in great haste!

Gandalf.