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still in Pushkar….this week Chrissy’s knee’s have been killing her and my poor wife had to be admitted to hospital. a tough time for us and draining mentally…physically she is getting allot better and we have every reason to hope she can make a full recovery and relatively fast….

then my bike broke down which was more funny than sad as me and a local boy pushed the bike 3km with no engine in the desert…and the medical insurance have been a hassle etc…

I really was ready to leave Pushkar already…anyway….

life (and travel) throws challenges our way and if anything I believe people have a chance to rise up to the challenge…

so this week I will carry Chrissy around and try and not go nuts here in Pushkar….

i’ll let you know how it goes

Pushkar with a dry lake...no rain - no lake....the small town has over 200 temples...full holy!

the meeting centre of pushkar is a small chai-shop where I lose to J'an regularly (beat him last night tho phwar!) all in preparation for meeting the Casparov of Chess my big brother....(im not sure I ever beat him...dick)

played 2 gigs so far here in Pushkar!

The 1st rain of the season hit in a very synchronistic fashion as I sang a song about the heavens...but in India you roll with everything or sink like a stone....we unplugged and moved undercover where some faithful few jammed with us for hours more....ps - check out American Dain on the right...he had a bang lassi and is trollied!

after the 2nd gig we went to check out this huge devotional gig...chrissy lasted 5 minutes

We also pumped into this wedding procession including band and young groom on white horse with lots of bills stuck to his lapel...class act

so life is eventful and we’ve been busy with festival stuff for the summer and helping out a friend…soon non-eventful chillout i’m sure…;-)

oh Om-beach om beach

was very relaxed and lovely! nice gig as well, we learn something after every performance…this time we learned not to work with cun*s anymore, music is a vibe based gig and no vibe = no good…but that’s enough about that

om beach

we then headed north to Goa and to see our friends!

in Panjim with dave and nia

We saw Dave and Nia again in their lovely flat in Panjim….we went to the market and bought a Tuna fish and a kilo of Calamari for $2.20!!

does this make you feel uncomfortable?....yes that huge cucumber IS mine...

chrissy relaxing in Panjim

nice!

then we headed to Mumbai and met with Approv who was kind enough to host us in his awesome penthouse and show us around town with his chauffeur…was lush! thank A.

when I asked Apoorv why he stops every day on his way to work to feed the birds he simply said - cause they are hungry...what a nice guy!

We then took a 16 hour sleeper bus in a little nook but we kept ourselves busy…

now we are in Rajastan after a very long journey and lookin around…

the beutiful light show in Udaipur palace

chrissy muzing in the Udaipur temple

but she finds the time to take a pic of yours truely

chrissy with the beautiful backdrop of Rajastan from the Monsoon palace

keep in touch!

Arnon

So we left Hampi in a sleeper to Gokarna in the southern state of Karnateka and this place is both beautiful and chilled. Its really great to be here and Chrissy has already started to do some Lu-lus and I scored a gig tonight! the Tour continues!

here are some pics taken by Nia Williams of some of our gigs in Arambol:-

The 6 of us in another date at Loekies in Arambol

Chrissy, myself and Diego & Guierrmo on perc

We also did a few other venues, here’s an example:-

the dog isn't with us...

The guy on the left is Norbi and the instrument he is playing is the Hang...its awesome and i have the recording of our jam in this gig...one day on the site aye...

all out love,

C&A

so we are here in the beautiful Hampi. Ancient empire across the river we are here relaxing…well I am. Chrissy is working full days doing Lu-Lu’s and other hair related ‘pretty stuff’. We are both delighted naturally.

On other fronts I cant really travel India without going a-bit spiritual and trying to practice a little self-help trying to be happier and shit…

India to me is still a-bit Hard, a-bit dirty, a-bit ignorant and the list goes on but also very beautiful. very affordable, very mercantile and flexible and full of wondrous and magical things….India really is full of paradox…

so all my best for now,

Arnon

Hiya,

great news for me, my album is finally available online! now at CD baby but in a couple of weeks it will be available everywhere for the proper launch (if you could call it that)….nice

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/Arnon

here are some pics:-

sunset in the backwaters...the photo hasn't even been touched up!

Captain of the house boat....

IN the sweet lake in Arambol with our trustee percussionists Guierrmo and Diego and our sweedish mates Ivan and sis

chrissy in goa

with our mate Kobe...what a dude

Chrissy rocking Loekies Cafe arambol

Loekies which we played 3 times was a real pleasure...thanks to all who were there

i’m trying to get ahold of more pics as we did about 10 or so dates…more here soon

wow life in GOa!

great and wonderful but can get hectic in the small details.

weve been burning up the gigs doing over 10 dates now and even playing a sunrise session at the eco+festival this wknd in Agonda…wow!

gigs and jams have been great with Mexicans Diego and Guilerrmo on perc as well as awesome Dave on guitar and nia on extra vox…also Norbi on the Hang and Sax…full line up+

got some great recordings but dont have anyway to get them online yet…but they are there and will go up eventually!

still waiting for the album to arrive and living the life here in Goa…

its 10am, in Goa that’s almost considered Pre-dawn. The Taxis outside are tooting their horns. a multitude of languages resonate through the internet cafe.

Another Market day today and after almost a week of Jams and gigs I had a full day of absolutely bubkis…and it was very nice…starting to get into the rhythm of India but finding the technological failings all too obvious – internet and mobile coverage are absolute rubbish and musos could not get a hold of me bla bla…Vodafone…national network alek…

The gigs were great fun and the only reason I have not uploaded music from the recordings of the gigs that we have is that I left my PC power lead in Zanzibar….bullocks! so its all on hold for abit…

On Sunday, Dvir a great Israeli devotional singer from D1 project and the strings came up and jammed with me… &

On Monday night at Lokies we had these 2 Mexican percussion players come up and play which was great…

nice to try new things and looking forward to more!

all the best from Goa

Arnon

life here in Goa in the past week has been lots of fun.

lots of music jams which led to 3 booked gigs this week…tonight,tmr & Sat….

and I look forward to more bookings aye…

met great people from everywhere and last night at the Market had a nice big jam and ended up meeting almost all the people I was looking forward to meeting here in Goa…

Chrisy is making lu-lus or hair wraps and making some nice dosh and we are plodding along….

i await the arrival of my album here in India and will update with some pics tmr!

best
Arnon