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Last Updated: 11/20/2009

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Status: Married
State: Syddanmark
Country: DK
Signup Date: 11/27/2008
Monday, May 25, 2009 

Current mood:  adventurous
These where the gigs

Thursday, May 21 - Illegaard, Tartu, w/ Bullfrog Brown
Friday, May 22 - SEE Theatre, Haapsalu
Saturday, May 23 - Clazz, Tallinn
Sunday, May 24 - Glass Hall, Tallinn Song Festival Grounds, w/ T探nis M辰gi, Jaak Johanson etc.

Yeahh I guess The Ol..Missisippi River now runs through Denmark and aaall the way to Estonia.
Never saw it comming and just got carried away and washed up on the shores of Estonia along with my three stringers and e-fiddle, gigs and a OMB-workshop
Thanks to my distinguished bluesbrother Andres Roots aka Bukka I am still alive and well

Andres Roots aka Bukka wrote this about the thursday together with me:

Great night last night/late night last night. Nikolaj sure had everybody going - and he does such a mean 3-string cigarbox version of "Black Magic Woman"!,

We also dragged him to a studio before the show and he played some killer 5-string violin for the next Bullfrog CD ;)

And the story goes on.....

After having done my One Hour One Man Band/Cigar box guitar slide .. Workshop from 18-19 wich went really well ending up with two of my "students" on Guitars and me on E-fiddle for a jam in order to make sure they learned their lessons well I Got on stage around 21:00 and left the stage at around 01:20

Yeahh my One Man Band members were tired but extremely happy as was Rommy and the rest of the Audience .. As usual the show included beautifull (this time Estonian) girls dancing on stage on each side of the One Man Band, and thus even more animating the crowd ... sold enough cd..s and may actually allow myself to call it one more gig well done

From Thursday night in Illegaard - pics by Merle Madisson & Rando Kruus.
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preachin' the blues...
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And the jam
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w/ Bullfrog & a Finnish guitarist...
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on violin
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one more...
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and so the end came to my Estonian Blues Odyssee.

I played Clazz in Talinn three sets of One Man Band drums and Winebox guitar around 1:00 am the crowd hardly wanted to let me go - the usual sporting of innocent (well maybe NOT so innocent) young girls found the One Man Band crowded with entusiastic dancers (truth be told most of these girls danced with some other men - leaving me do my job - Play my heart out ;gu; ) went home around 2 am and slept until 9 Then went of to the Festival Ground Halls where I played as a participant in a charity concert for handicapped Estonian kids wich was arranged for me by the Danish Estonian Culture office in Talinn. So now I can say I have opened for some of the most well known Estonian pop artists

Anyway now I am back to gigs in Denmark, Bremen and later Dundee.

Ivar (journalist and bluesfan from Haapsalu) posted some nice pics of me showing the gig and workshop in Haapsalu go see for yourselves here  Ivars blogspot

Anyone who will please help me out on the Estonian language?

I found that even after 4 days in this country I still can..t speak, write or read anything - in Estonian....

Enjoy
NA



Nikita
Nikita K

 

Liked your music and thought I could help, so here's the quick translation from Ivar's blog (better something than nothing, right)

"And so yesterday happened such thing, that there came a man on our backyard, who plays just that kind of blues – Nikolaj Andresen. I’ve spent one of most pleasant nights of the latest days.

  Anderesen is Danish. His mother is Russian and so the man speaks russian fluently. But that’s not important. What is important is that his singing is very cool. I even wouldn’t over-emphasize instrument playing in his case, although it always gets lots of attention. He uses self-built 3-string instrument, which one wouldn’t really call a guitar. I’ve tried to play that and it wasn’t so easy, if you’re used to play the 6-string guitar. But did it whet my appetite. Building of it was quite easy and maybe I will do myself one as well.

  Nikolaj’s guitar body is made from a small box for wine bottles. It’s plywood. Neck is just some kind of board. Pickup was taken from an old guitar. The lowest string is a bass one, the rest two come from usual electric guitar. Tuning is simple – DDA. Second D is an octave higher. Anyway, it sounded cool. He doesn’t use any additional equipment, but guitar makes awesome sound. The uploaded video, although with a usual guitar, describes the playing style quite nicely.

  Nikolaj plays drums as well. He is a one man band. He has studied classical viola which he plays to this day. Besides that he has electric violin on his concerts. There were quite a lot of people on the yesterday’s concert in SEE theatre. Some didn’t ‘endure’ three hours and left earlier, but well, this kind of blues in such amounts at once can kick the ground from beneath your feet.

  Nikolaj plays drums as well. He is a one man band. He has studied classical viola which he plays to this day. Besides that he has electric violin on his concerts.
  There were quite a lot of people on the yesterday’s concert in SEE theatre. Some didn’t ‘endure’ three hours and left earlier, but well, this kind of blues in such amounts at once can kick the ground from beneath your feet.
  But now is the part, where I wanted to get. Namely, I’ve asked him to come to play in Augustblues. On Monday I am going to talk about it with organizers. But even if we couldn’t fit him in the official programme, he could play outside of that. On the street, for example. He has played a lot on the streets and as he doesn’t have any equipment, it is easy to do. There is no one representing this style in Augustblues, but because hill country blues is the most original blues, where all of the rock music got its beginning, it would be weird, if he wouldn’t perform in one the Baltic biggest blues festivals.
  ....Here are the pictures from yesterday’s night. Mainly from workshop, where he taught instrument playing to local boys."


Greetings from Estonia!

p.s. I've let myself to leave the last paragraph without translation because it is about organizational issues of your Augustblues 'tour'. Only the good stuff, that's why :)


 
Posted by Nikita on Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 9:16 AM
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