37) Myanmar February 2017 // Silent Movies // Friends // Art // Life // Food // Music

In 2017 I was again traveling with Meike Goosmann and her band colleagues.
This time we were to come together to play to the silent movie "Mya Ga Naing"

 Silent movies were and still are a big thing and very popular in Myanmar.
"Mya Ga Naing" is kind of a road movie.

 This are some impressions of the rehearsals we did for "Mya Ga Naing":
https://youtu.be/XqzKG8GT6r4
And: 

At the end of 2017 the project was recorded in Myanmar. But everything happened so short notice that I could not take part in it. Which was a pity. 

 Here is a spontaneous morning improvisation of Michael Vatcher with the sounds of Yangon: 
Pictures of the silent movie "Mya Ga Naing" I found in a cafe. 









More impressions without words.



Hanging together. 


Visiting a friend of Tim Isfort and Jan Klare.
An instrument maker. 
We were invited to dinner and of course later on bought some of his instruments.





Concert at Pansodan Galery.


Singer and dancer who played with us in his costumes.





Another music "Myanmar Meets Europe" concert at the Goethe Institute / Institute Francais ground in Yangon. 



 With Thaung Htike.

With the gong player of Thaung Htike´s Hsaing Waing. 


That was the night of the silent movie. We had two pianist, one Burmese player and a European improviser - that was me. ;-)

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