Temporary stop? Who knows? / ¿Parada temporal? ¿Quién sabe?

Liz Gilbert & Audiosapien Records: support the good indie art

I'm breaking my "resting time from social networks" to support a very important cause, the benefit event to help Liz Gilbert, a lovely and amazing human being and artist, dealing with a terrible and delicate situation, and even under these circumstances giving life to a new and daring cultural project: Audiosapien Records.

Please read and share.

Thanks a lot.

Norris Trío: beautiful free jazz and creative drawing at Casa Presa

The Norris Trío (Enrique Norris, on cornet and compositions, Pablo Díaz on drums, and Maximiliano Kirszner on double bass) will be this friday, July 5, 9:00 pm, at Casa Presa, Valdenegro 2636, Villa Urquiza, Autonomic City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in a jam session with a very original twist, also a jam session of drawing, with a live model.

As always, everyone is invited to enjoy good music, and from some very creative live drawings.

Casa Presa

Valdenegro 2636

Villa Urquiza

Autonomic City of Buenos Aires

Argentina

The show at Facebook events

"A Beginning To End": jazz and art together again

Thanks to the new work from Linda Palmer, aka Ponor (video and art), Nick Janczak (trumpet and effects), and Phil White (glockenspiel and percussion), for three minutes and thirteen seconds we can stop the world around us, enjoying the high quality from free jazz and musical improvisation, with our eyes under the spell from Linda Palmer's (aka Ponor) amazing visual art. 

If we can't support independent artists, the real ones, we're not going to have too much beauty in our lives, simple as that.

Norris Trío: the best jazz is at gogoyoko

"Ascensión Libre" / "Free Ascension" (enonane records, 2013)

There’s an online music store called gogoyoko, and The Positive Ghetto really likes that place.
The Norris Trío (Enrique Norris, on cornet, keyboards and percussion, Pablo Díaz on drums, and Maximiliano Kirszner on double bass) has a previous album there, "300" (enonane records, 2012), and now you can find "Ascensión Libre" / "Free Ascension" (enonane records, 2013) too.

Remember that the gogoyoko main offices are located in the wonderful Iceland, and the essential market for the company is right now in the European Nordic Countries: Iceland of course, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Faroe Islands, but we know they’re reach far beyond.

Everyone is invited to visit the Norris Trío at gogoyoko, and to discover the fantastic gogoyoko’s online store.

Norris Trío: excellent jazz at Virasoro Bar to warm up winter / excelente jazz en Virasoro Bar para calentar el invierno

The Norris Trío (Enrique Norris, on cornet and keyboards; Pablo Díaz on drums; and Maximiliano Kirszner on double bass) will be closing a month of successful presentations playing the new music from "Ascensión Libre" / "Free Ascension" (enonane records, 2013), this friday, June 21, after midnight, so, 12:45 am from the saturday, at Virasoro Bar, Guatemala 4328, Palermo, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

And beyond these amazing live concerts, you can enjoy the beautiful music from "Ascensión Libre" / "Free Ascension" (enonane records, 2013) at Bandcamp, and also in the widget to the right.

Remember, as always, everyone is invited!

The Norris Trío (Enrique Norris, en corneta y teclados; Pablo Díaz en batería; y Maximiliano Kirszner en contrabajo) estarán cerrando un mes de exitosas presentaciones tocando la nueva música de "Ascensión Libre " (enonane records, 2013), este viernes, Junio 21, después de la medianoche, entonces, 12:45 am del sábado, en Virasoro Bar, Guatemala 4328, Palermo, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Y más allá de estos asombrosos conciertos en vivo, pueden disfrutar la bella música de "Ascensión Libre" / "Free Ascension" (enonane records, 2013) en Bandcamp, y también en el widget a la derecha.

Recuerden, como siempre, ¡Están todos invitados!

Virasoro Bar (entidad adherida a CAMUVI)

Tapas, drinks and woks / Tapas, tragos y woks.

Guatemala 4328

Palermo
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Argentina

4831-8918

Limited capacity - Minimal consumption / Capacidad limitada - Consumición mínima.

Tickets / Entradas: $ 30.-

Virasoro Bar at / en Facebook

The show at Facebook events / El show en Eventos Facebook

Este artículo pertenece a The Positive Ghetto / This article belongs to The Positive Ghetto

Norris Trío: today, after midnight, the best jazz at Virasoro Bar

The Norris Trío (Enrique Norris, on cornet, keyboards and percussion, Pablo Díaz on drums, and Maximiliano Kirszner on double bass) will be playing music from a new album, "Ascensión Libre" / "Free Ascension" (enonane records, 2013), this friday, June 14, after midnight, so, 12:45 am from the saturday, at Virasoro Bar, Guatemala 4328, Palermo, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

You can enjoy this beautiful new jazz from "Ascensión Libre" / "Free Ascension" (enonane records, 2013) at Bandcamp, and also in the widget to the right.

Remember, as always, everyone is invited!

Virasoro Bar (entidad adherida a CAMUVI)

Tapas, drinks and woks / Tapas, tragos y woks.

Guatemala 4328

Palermo
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Argentina

4831-8918

Limited capacity - Minimal consumption / Capacidad limitada - Consumición mínima.

Tickets / Entradas: $ 30.-

Virasoro Bar at / en Facebook

The Positive Ghetto and the sense of community

Sometimes I don't know what to think, because I believe some people, even those involved in the independent art scene, doesn't understand the importance to support our community and projects.

Norris Trío: enjoy a great jam session at Casa Presa

The Norris Trío (Enrique Norris, on cornet and keyboard, Pablo Díaz on drums, and Maximiliano Kirszner on double bass) will be this thursday, June 13, 8:30 pm, at Casa Presa, Valdenegro 2636, Villa Urquiza, Autonomic City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in a fantastic jam session.

As always, everyone is invited to enjoy good music!

The show at Facebook events

Free jazz for free, or "pay what you want", one more day...

The Positive Ghetto and the Norris Trío (Enrique Norris, on cornet, keyboards and percussion, Pablo Díaz on drums, and Maximiliano Kirszner on double bass), wishing all of you a great sunday, a very musical one, to close the weekend enjoying excellent jazz just visit the Norris Trío Bandcamp page, where you will have the option to download all the music using the "pay what you want" option.

Have a happy and jazzy sunday!

Norris Trío & Bandcamp: free jazz for free, or pay what you want!

Tomorrow, saturday, June 8, 2013, The Positive Ghetto wants to celebrate the chance to enjoy good music, and the Norris Trío (Enrique Norris, on cornet, keyboards and percussion, Pablo Díaz on drums, and Maximiliano Kirszner on double bass), with wonderful jazz, will be the main guest in the celebration, inviting all of you to visit the Norris Trío Bandcamp page, where you will have the option to download all the music you wish, using the "pay what you want" method, so, you can pay one, two, a hundred, or simply nothing.

Remember, the whole saturday, good jazz for everyone!

Avant-garde jazz & visual arts: a very happy marriage

A mysterious and lovely "Ponor creature"

The marriages between different artistic forms are not always happy, even if the best artists are involved the outcome can be a disaster, since the beginning of times we can see many examples from those uncomfortable situations, but today I want to talk about the other side, when the marriage is pure happiness.

A series of videos from this year are showing the great work from some amazing artists from England, the fantastic free jazz musicians Nick Janczak (trumpet) and Phil White (drums), with the beautiful ideas from the visual artist Linda Palmer (aka Ponor).

In this brief article I want to share some of those videos, but also to talk a little about the creative independent spirit behind them, something we must enjoy, and support, in these days of ugly darkness in many artistic fields.

The partnership between Nick Janczak and Phil White is full of colors, straight warm lines, and sometimes obscure detours, with unique and refreshing sounds, and the art from Linda Palmer (aka Ponor), an artist who can paint, design an album cover, or create a marvellous world populated by her "Ponors creatures", is the perfect canvas for the music.

For The Positive Ghetto is a real pleasure to promote this new material, where music and visual arts can show us a path to make a little better the world we live in.

"We Are All Nomads"

"Machine Voodoo"

Message in a bottle

I will call this a "message in a bottle", just an idea, a crazy one? Who knows.

Someone out there has some information about any organization, public, private, even a culture ministry from some country, with enough freedom to give support, just a small one, to The Positive Ghetto?, and going even further, to give the project a physical place of residence.

I know many, many cultural organizations, from previous projects I was involved, but this time I’m opening all the paths to use the social networks and my contacts in the cultural field the best possible way.

I believe The Positive Ghetto has the quality and the strength to be a worldwide center to help good art to connect and survive.

I'm thinking in Europe, the USA, I know about the crisis, everywhere, but, crazier things have happened.

Best wishes, as always,

Federico Antin
Founder & CEO
The Positive Ghetto
thepositiveghetto@gmail.com

Norris Trío: fantastic jazz this weekend, live at Virasoro Bar (Argentina)

The Norris Trío (Enrique Norris, on cornet, keyboards and percussion, Pablo Díaz on drums, and Maximiliano Kirszner on double bass) will be playing music from a new album, "Ascensión Libre" / "Free Ascension" (enonane records, 2013), this saturday, May 25, after midnight, to be honest around 12:45 am from the sunday, at Virasoro Bar, Guatemala 4328, Palermo, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

And for this special presentation three very talented guests: Ada Rave on tenor sax, Nicolás Chientaroli on piano, and Mariano Bertolini on pocket trumpet.

You can listen this beautiful new jazz live next weekend, and before, all the brilliant compositions from "Ascensión Libre" / "Free Ascension" (enonane records, 2013) are here at Bandcamp, and also in the widget down to the right.

As always, everyone is invited to enjoy good music!

Virasoro Bar (entidad adherida a CAMUVI)

Tapas, drinks and woks / Tapas, tragos y woks.

Guatemala 4328

Palermo
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Argentina

4831-8918

Limited capacity - Minimal consumption / Capacidad limitada - Consumición mínima.

Tickets / Entradas: $ 30.-

Virasoro Bar at / en Facebook

The show at Facebook events / El show en Eventos Facebook

Norris Trío: refreshing new jazz just a click away

The beautiful Norris Trío (Enrique Norris, on cornet, keyboards and percussion, Pablo Díaz on drums, and Maximiliano Kirszner on double bass) last album, "Ascensión Libre" / "Free Ascension" (enonane records, 2013) is out there waiting for you to spend just U$S 7.- to discover one of the best jazz albums from 2013.

Of course you can listen Norris Trío's "Ascensión Libre" / "Free Ascension" (enonane records, 2013) right now, and for free, just using the Bandcamp widget down to the right.

Everyone is invited to enjoy good music!

Liz Gilbert: an independent artist we must protect

If I’ve got to think in the best example of an independent artist I must say just one name: Liz Gilbert.

Since some time ago she’s facing very complicated issues, her health isn’t too well, and some financial troubles make the situation much worse, but even under those burdens she’s always thinking in ways to write new music, to record it, and to help other artists.

Liz Gilbert was born in Canada, but lives since ages ago in the United States, she's a talented singer and multi-instrumentalist, a very gifted composer, and if you don’t know her I’m inviting you to to do it, it will be the best investment for good music lovers.

From jazz to blues, rock, folk, contemporary music, there's no a single genre or style unknown for her.

I really wish to see Liz Gilbert coming back soon in top form, if The Positive Ghetto is alive is thanks to brilliant artists and beautiful human beings as her.

Stephan Moore's JazzWrap: amazing independent jazz is waiting for you

Many people is out there helping us to discover new and wonderful independent music, and one of them is the great Stephan Moore, with his fantastic blog dedicated to jazz called JazzWrap.

In The Positive Ghetto we want to invite you to visit JazzWrap, and to discover and enjoy the pleasures from good independent music.

Norris Trío: open your souls, hearts, and ears of course, to beautiful new jazz

I like to say it very loud, for me jazz is a musical playground, a lot of creativity is involved, but also the ability to keep it alive as a beautiful game, and my friends from the Norris Trío are a fantastic example from my theory.

A real pleasure to work with his founder Enrique Norris, on cornet, keyboards and percussion, Pablo Díaz on drums, and now Maximiliano Kirszner on acoustic bass, until some months ago Cristián Bórtoli was the band bassist, now the talented musician is back in his Santa Fe's home.

Jazz, free jazz, avant garde, just put those labels aside and enjoy the beauty of independent art.

Bandcamp is a great musical place where you can find some of the best music from the Norris Trío, just a few dollars for each one of the great recordings they made, and I hope to listen much more magical new music produced by these amazing artists in the near future.

First steps

Somehow the first steps from The Positive Ghetto are the last steps from euskir music. Do you know euskir music? Do you remember that project?

euskir music was an idea to give a good hand to independent musicians, music and cultural management without any charge for the musician, and in some cases a service for some music festivals and venues too. The money to support it? From my own pocket, some coming from free lance jobs related to communications services, and sometimes coming from non profit organizations, as euskir music itself. It was fine for a couple of years, but at some point it was impossible to keep it alive, some problem with an international festival was the last drop of poison to kill my beloved project.

The Positive Ghetto is aiming to the same direction, independent art, not only music, of course music will be the main interest, because is the field I know much better, but I think to open as many doors as possible.

There’s a basic difference, the way to sustain the project alive and kicking, without any problem. For specific works, a charge, an arrangement with the artist or the person interested in my help, this is a non profit organization, I’m not pretending to take 50% of nobody’s profit, just a little help to keep the wheels rolling. And the other option is to use the PayPal button you can see at right, if you love independent art, and specially if you know me, and my honest work to help artists from any country, genre, or style, add a contribution, small, middle, big, just as much as you can, I know these hard times are not easy for our wallets, but one coin here, another there, that will be enough.

My friends, well, you know me, and if you don’t, just ask someone who knows me, “good art must survive” isn’t just a catchy slogan, is a goal, and alone, I just can’t do it.


Federico Antin
Founder & CEO
The Positive Ghetto
thepositiveghetto@gmail.com

Good art must survive

Ghettos are linked to many stories, of life and death, comedy and tragedy, and even in the worst times, the sense of community is very alive in the ghetto.

Is more than clear than the enemy is outside, so the ghetto, as a big family, try to solve all the problems, big and small, always as a whole entity.

The Positive Ghetto is a worldwide project, very ambitious, as most projects, but knowing well we're facing hard times, so patience must be a main tool here.

I'm not the usual "music business guy", not even for the independent scene, because thanks to my great working experience I can reach cultural management areas beyond the activity as creative consultant for artists and cultural spaces, like press, public relations, festival and music venues, and also a good hand at online presence (websites, blogs, social networks), and many other art related matters coming from the open interchange of ideas between you and me.

Art is the key, from my side essentially music, but The Positive Ghetto is open to any independent artistic activity, from movies to literature, paintings to graphic design and photography, to be clear, all art forms are welcome, because we're always looking for a way to get people together, to find the energy in common ground, and to share our knowledge, in every artistic field.

No limits, no horizon, no selfishness, just one direction, because everyone at The Positive Ghetto knows one thing, good art must survive.


Federico Antin
Founder & CEO
The Positive Ghetto
thepositiveghetto@gmail.com