Visit to Brussels and Paris

Last weekend I went to Paris, together with Peter Dekker, for some business purposes.

Peter, myself and Mark at the Brussels Planetarium.

Friday, February 28th, our first stop was the Brussels Planetarium. The location where Peter Dekker, Mark de Wit and myself join forces for an evening of electronic music on June 21st. Three new albums will be presented and performed live by Peter Dekker (Synquentium - "Immersion in Total Emptiness"), Mark de Wit (Rhea - "Soon") and myself (Planet of the Arps - "Planet of the Arps 2"). Ticket sales start within coming days.

Hereafter we travelled to our hotel in Poissy, west of Paris. We were about to stay here, in the provence of Yvelines, until Monday.

A couple of months ago, Peter and I did a recording session for our next collaboration, which had also been filmed partially. To complement these recordings, and to visualize the concept connected with the music, we wanted to make film recordings on the location of Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, to integrate into the video.
I will tell more about the story behind this later.
Saturday morning and early afternoon, and Sunday morning, we focussed on filming around this 12th century castle and its surroundings, 20 kilometers west from Paris, including a wonderful view of La Défense, on the other side of the forest in between.

Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Then, on this same location, we had two meetings, both related to this project, as well as Space Art.

In the evening we had an appointment with Dominique Perrier's son, Jimmy. We spoke about his father, Space Art and exchanged ideas about the future (or at least about keeping alive the legendary's band's legacy). It still is too early to say something about this, but coming weeks or even months we will sorting out and digitalize various material.

Sunday afternoon we had another appointment, again with Jimmy, and Marine, on the east part of Paris. Marine also had been connected with Dominique for quite a while.

Monday after breakfast, we drove back home, and had another stop near Brussels to meet another friend.

Back home again, I have to prepare the last bits for my upcoming "Exhibition of Dreams 25th Anniversary" and Martijn Comes' "Frixtis" releases, which see the light on March 7th.