I'm playing at Picnic Afisha Festival on Saturday which apparently has about 70,000 people in attendance, needless to say, I'm very excited!

Roman Rosic was one of the many new friends I made last year in Cologne while recording for The Red Bull Music Academy's "A Class of it's Own" project and luckily for me he's been generous enough to ask me to come to Moscow and play in the Red Bull area of the festival. I'll be doing an acoustic looping set of sorts and will also be performing with Andreya Triana, who I've done a lot of shows with here in London. Skymark from Barcelona will also be playing and so will Aloe Blacc who met the other threRed Bull Music Academy... the RBMA famliy tree just seems to get bigger and bigger...

I recorded a song with Roman and another wicked Producer Sofie Loizou last year in Cologne that I didn't think needed any vocals because it was such a beautiful ambient piece all by itself... however after getting it stuck in my head for a while, and missing my girlfriend, and thinking about leaving NZ behind not too long before I ended up in Cologne, I wrote the lyrics to "Situation Strange"...
Very autobiographical but very appropriate for me at the time - the reality of falling in love with a person from the other side of the world, leaving my home, my family and everything I'd worked so hard for in the years leading up to my departure, and then getting to the other side of the world to find it's full of amazing things, amazing people, new family, and here I was in Cologne making music with some of my idols (again - flashback to the RBMA in Seattle a few years earlier!)...

You can listen to "Situation Strange" on Roman's page: http://www.myspace.com/romanrosicworld

I can't help but hear "On the Nightshift" by the Commodores when I hear it too... I think that used to be on the radio every morning before school when I was a kid and that would've been one of the first songs I started noticing harmonies in music and singing along to the voices other than Lionel's main vocal!

Funny shit.

I've got to finish packing, burning cd's and making sure I don't forget anything...

Peace.
Adi

This is Sofie and Roman working on some tunes in Cologne...