Breaths of Paradise - Live at Nightscapes in Maastricht

Life Happening All Around Us! Life Happening Right NOW!

And voila, I'm in Canada for the foreseeable future. SURPRISE.

I got back a couple weeks ago and spent some time in Toronto visiting old friends and volounteering at the salvation army - there is a video of me singing a new song called 'Galapagos' on my FACEBOOK page if you would like to see what this looks like.

After the end of the world didn't happen, I headed up to Ottawa to eat turkey with my family. My sister and I dropped in on Chief Theresa Spence who is holding a hunger strike until Stephen Harper and the governor general agree to sit down and talk about treaty issues with her. We met two brothers who were there with their drums and a really nice guy from the Walpole reserve who brought his harmonicas, so things stayed pretty a-political and I had a nice time in the sun on Christmas day jammin' with these dudes. The next day I found my picture in the paper!:

Other news... I finally got to listen to the recordings I made last month. The mixing and mastering is not yet complete, but oh what the heck, you can preview them here, too, I'll update them when I get the final mix.
This song is recorded by Stefano Capone with Paolo Melindi on Double Bass and Erik Schoepen playing the lap steel in his signature twin peaks D9 crazy tuning:

And then I made this song when nobody was looking... So maybe it'll be a surprise for everyone else involved in the production of our EP:

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST!!!

I have some some concerts to announce in Canada!

Friday, January 11th

The Coach and Horses

Windsor, Ont

9PM - FREE CONCERT
Last time I was in Canada and played at this place with Benito Band it totally blew me away....
So save the date and don't miss it cause my expectations are HIGH.

Wednesday, January 16th

The Horseshoe Tavern

Toronto, Ont.

5 Bands, 5 Bucks - the first one starts around 840 and I play at 1130. 

Come early and I'll buy you a beer :)

More Canadian dates to be announced. See you soon!

Cougars on the Road...

Last weekend, Cougars in America went on a small road trip to Maastricht and Koln to play concerts in magical locations!

First, we went to a garden in Maastricht to participate in the 3rd edition of Nightscapes. We played in this garden set up by Landbouwbelang amidst some post-industrial rubble:

After a long night animated by the Serious Beans Project, we drank a lot of coffee and drove to Koln to play in St. Michael's church as part of the Art & Amen festival that was taking place all around Brusselerplatz:

Here are some videos from the concert in the garden:

BIG thanks to Jos and Cat from Nightscapes and Ben from Popanz Productions for making this possible! 

Breaths of Paradise Re-re-recorded

Rattle on you writer of emotions 

Conjure up the motions in my feet 

Make them carry endlessly and one before the other 

Take them out the door and march them through the streets

Weave your words into a singing fabric 

Make me whistle as I dress myself in colours bold and ready 

Take me by the shoulders as the wings which you have placed upon them 

Lift me up and hold them cool and steady

Tell me of the man they shot in Brixton 

Tell me so I know what they have done 

Tell me that they put a hole into one of my brothers 

And the blood that spilled out flowed through everyone

I think I saw an angel 

I think I saw an angel 

I think I saw an angel in the sky

So sing for me a memory of everything that's missing 

And I'll join you in the distance when we're back to where we came from 

Living carelessly indifferent cause all the wrong's impossible 

And the hope I thought I lost is born again

And I'll know you're an angel with light shining through your wisdom 

By the way that you go floating through the air 

Margarita, all the things you never said 

Take me with you when you're flying over there

I think I saw an angel 

I think I saw an angel 

I think I saw an angel in the sky

I think I saw an angel 

I think I saw an angel 

I think I saw an angel in the sky