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Moriarty’s german tour 2011: Back at the UT Connewitz in Leipzig, the oldest surviving cinema in Germany & a place filled with ghosts dancing around humans…

Moriarty’s back to Germany, starting with Bremen & Hamburg. Hectic days, interviews on Radio Bremen and Byte FM Hamburg, a showcase at Michelle’s indie record store and gigs at the Kulturetage in Oldenburg & Kampnagel in Hamburg für die Krimiwoche (!)

Performing in Berlin tonight with the great Emit Bloch !

Early morning. Moriarty’s boarding a plane to northern Germany. Bremen-Oldenburg tonight, then off to Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Prague, München, Lausanne, Frankfurt, Köln, Karlsruhe…

At last! The vinyl 12-inch version of the Missing Room is on its way! It will come within a black cardboard silkscreen-printed sleeve, with a 24-page full-size booklet illustrated by Zim Moriarty. And thanks to the patient work of the volunteer team (Tom, Zim, Charlie, Rosemary, Arthur, Dana, Mae, Ludo, Laure-Anne, Constance, Emile, Sylvie, Dominique, Idriss, Juliette, Audrey, Ana, Ambra...

Hand-making the special envelopes for the Missing Room’s vinyl edition. Today at the Air Rytmo mini-factory, with the helpful hands of ten volunteers, we managed to finish about six hundred hand-crafted and unique pieces, that will be dispatched into the LP record sleeves in a few weeks… no robots, computers or machines were used or harmed in the process. Thanks for your patience.

Next shows in Paris, France: The Divan du Monde on Saturday October 22 is now sold out. But we’re preparing the « Missing Rooms » series in December: 5 secret acoustic concerts hidden somewhere around Paris & a concert at the Cigale on December 6th. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Prochains concerts à Paris: Le Divan du Monde (Samedi 22 Octobre) est maintenant...

Air Rytmo headquarters, September 2011: Rosemary & the boys preparing the Missing Room’s vinyl edition (every record will contain a unique handmade artefact, in addition to the 24-page illustrated booklet).
ps: Hand-crafting these records takes a lot of time… we’re always looking for volunteers to help us out! Feel free to apply at moriartyland@gmail.com!

The needle carves a groove into the shiny black lacquer surface, translating the Missing Room into a thin little spiralling line, like ripples on a petroleum lake. In the meantime a thunderstorm is brewing outside. Translab vinyl mastering studios, Paris, August 2011.

Moriarty’s Missing Room tour: the last of the summer festivals; Paimpol, August 2011.

Place Albertine, facing the statue of a king (ça drache). Brussels Summer Festival, August 2011.

On our way to Brussels, at the last minute we decided to play for a free festival hidden somewhere near the dutch border… a concert underneath a tent with a few hundred people while it rains on the fields outside. Zomerfest, Bocholt, Belgium, August 2011. <
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Moriarty on tour with special guests: Mama Rosin from Geneva, Lail Arad from London, Moriba Koita, Oumou Kouyaté, Yeye Kante and Gimba from Mali : Festival du Bout du Monde, Crozon (F), August 5th, 2011.

Preparing a few songs with Moriba & friends for the Festival du Bout du Monde. Moriarty’s studio, Paris, august 2011.

Back to Brittany. Loudness. Tall trees. Warm crowds. Fog. Quiet red sunset. Moriarty’s Missing Room tour, festival Pont du Rock, Malestroit (F), July 29th 2011.

A train station that looks like a gigantic skeleton. Mine shafts and black metal industries along an abandoned river. A festival in a park dotted with art nouveau pavilions, remnants of a past glory. Hot waters spring from the earth, cold waters pour from the skies. For a few minutes the music seems to hold the rain still, sparing the Belgian audience. The smell of cinnamon. The streets of Liège...

Moriarty on tour: Paleofestival, Nyon (Switzerland) July 23rd, 2011.

Moriarty’s Missing Room tour: Paris, Parvis de l’Hôtel de Ville, July 21st 2011.

Moriarty’s Missing Room tour: Charlie playing solos in an olive tree, mistral wind blowing on stage, a cat named Petrus, heard through the grapevines. Mas des Escaravatiers, July 2011.

Playing tonight in the middle of the grapevines. Moriarty’s Missing Room tour, Mas des Escaravatiers, Puget, France, July 18th 2011.