Living in (quite) a big city is very useful to listen to new stuff...

[Marine]

I should permanently write on my forehead, forwards and backwards, "ignorant".Went to my first concert of the year, was about time you'll tell me, and you'll be right: I'm still amazed at how little I listen to live music. Terebi & live recordings don't count. I almost didn't go there , as usual for meaningless reasons, but a cocktail of hurting feet, television and a high mix of monosaccharide changed my mind somehow. Or maybe I just wanted to piss my flatmate off. Make him understand he cannot talk me, no matter how hard he tries, into laziness. Laziness is usually my own decision, but thanks for the concern.Anyway, off I went to this small converted-to-art malt-house (is my life dictated by and dedicated to beer ? hmm...) to hear a bit of jazz. I liked that place. The malt-house, I mean. It's small. So small that it was difficult for the double-bass to stand without touching the ceiling.About the music, well... I'm not able to make accurate comments about music, I mean, I don't know anything about it, it's mostly personal... Mmm... The first part was a French piano player, from what I have read his music is supposed to be inspired from Scandinavia, well, if he says so, right ? I'm no judge. And I wouldn't know how to judge that in the first place. He was talking about his daughter and an obscure Swedish writer, and I felt like an idiot because I had no idea who it was. I liked it, btw. His music. Sounded round. Made me wish I'll never learn how to play the piano, because it'd kill it all. Like in magic tricks, you know ? If you understand how it works, it isn't funny anymore.The main act was the Japanese piano player Fujii Satoko, along with the three other members of her quartet (good, you can count up to four !). And, well. I didn't understand much. At all. I am not made to understand this kind of jazz. It felt like they were all on different rythms, I'm sorry I don't have four brains to compute four differents tracks ! When they were splitting into solos or duos I could follow (a bit) but mostly I felt like an idiot. Sigh. Someday...For those interested, anyway, here are the MySpaces of Stefan Orins and Fujii Satoko.