Gigs, Oct 2012: DJ sets + Concerts + Album Screenings (!) in Berlin

I’m planning a Sketches Album party in October. But instead of a listening party, or a live concert, I’m going to throw a party at Kreuzberg’s legendary Filmkunstbar and screen all the videos (both released and never-before-seen) as a complete album… It’s just one of the events I’m cramming in before my visit to Australia in November for a possible Sketches album release tour…

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Reviews: Ray Mann live in Bugewitz, Germany

“Er liebt sein Instrument – zärtlich zupft, streicht, drückt er seine Gitarre, verliert sich ganz in seiner Musik.”

[Google translate] “He loves his instrument – plucked tenderly, stroking, he pushes his guitar, all is lost in his music.”

Nordkurier reviewed my apparently autoerotically-charged solo show last weekend in Bugewitz, “the last village in Germany”. Full review right here…

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Gigs: Fête de la Musique, Berlin – June 2012

Ray Mann is packing in 3 back-to-back performances, in various guises, on Berlin’s epic Fête de la Musique: a solo concert, as a guest vocalist with a Techno DJ in one of the city’s biggest dance parties, and then a more laid-back DJ set of his own…

Thursday 21 June, 2012
17-18h Ray Mann (solo concert), Jail Bar
19-20h DJ Aroma (feat. Ray Mann on vocals), Neuro Comic
21-22h Ray Mann (DJ set), Jail Bar

The Ray Mann Three’s brand new EP Sketches vol. 3 is out now on iTunes.
Stay tuned for the Sketches album, coming soon…

Gigs: Ray Mann performs with Lauryn Hill in Switzerland this week.

Ray Mann makes his Switzerland debut at Zermatt Unplugged Festival 2012, alongside Ms Lauryn HillAmy MacDonaldAloe BlaccJames Vincent McMorrow and Newton Faulkner.

Born in Sydney, to Egyptian parents, and now based in Berlin, independent soul musician Ray Mann has supported Al Green, Tori Amos, Jamie Lidell, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings and Roy Ayers, toured Australia and Japan, and is currently releasing his second album Sketches as an interactive, online project.

Ray Mann’s dates, times & venues at Zermatt Unplugged 2012:

  • Tuesday, April 17, 2012 | 16.00 Zermatterhof
  • Wednesday, April 18, 2012 | 13.00 Blue Lounge
  • Thursday, April 19, 2012 | 12.00 Alex

More details at: http://zermatt-unplugged.ch