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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.