Christian Molenaar

Tag: solo

  • The Witches Tower 3/5/25

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    Ryan asked me to play this show and the very next day had to back out upon realizing he’d double-booked himself to sit in with Swing Kids in LA the same night. Obviously I wasn’t going to begrudge him taking the bigger gig, but it did leave the question: how the hell do you play… Read more

  • The Brown Building 1/17/2025

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    I loved the concept for this show: the Brown Building’s proprietor and Make Believe DIY head Matty asked me to open for LA-based violinist Lina Tullgren; Amy Cimini on viola and I on cello would round out a sort of deconstructed string trio. Read more

  • 2024

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    Pandemonium of New Year’s Eve: chaos of snow and mud churned up by a thousand carriages glittering with toys and bonbons, swarming with cupidity and despair; official frenzy of a big city designed to trouble the mind of the most impervious solitary. Read more

  • Bikes Del Pueblo 11/17/24

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    Bikes del Pueblo is a community bike repair space in City Heights whose wide purview includes repair, refinement and — most importantly — riding. Humble Servant of the Worm is a composting co-op who have set up a community garden in the back of Bikes del Pueblo’s lot, focused primarily on local herbs but also… Read more

  • The Brown Building 11/9/24

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    Every single person I invited to this show declined for one reason or another: anniversaries, brothers’ birthdays, cousins’ weddings, TTRPG nights; apparently every event in the county had to occur on this particular Veterans’ Day weekend. Read more

  • Best Practice 9/5/24

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    I’ve played with Nick Lesley and Jonathan Piper both together and separately, but missed their duo’s premiere at the Brown Building last month. Apparently neither had played with Stevie Richards before, but that didn’t appear to be any obstacle. Read more

  • Recantate

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    I’m back from the desert with some new (old) songs. Read more

  • The Idea of Anything to Be Done

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    The Idea of Anything to Be Done, a two-part solo guitar improvisation consisting of “Myself Creating What I Saw” and “Let No Name Ever Pass Our Lips,” is out today. Read more

  • Laughlin Cantate

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    As keen readers of this blog would know (if there were any), this time last year Lucas and I drove out to Laughlin to visit his dad and do some work in Bullhead City, with digressions into Chino, Joshua Tree, Twentynine Palms, Oatman and basically anything else planted on the long stretch of the 10… Read more

  • 2023

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    Another banner year for barren yields around these parts. Keen eyes may have noticed I only released one new recording this year, but for once I’m not measuring my productivity by its public-facing side. Read more

Thought:

“Style in an artistic film is the product of many different components, such as the play of rhythm and composition, the mutual tension of color surfaces, the interaction of light and shadow, the measured gliding of the camera. All these things, in association with the conception that a director has of his material, determines his style…”

Carl Theodor Dreyer

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