News
updated 29th July 2005
29th July 2005
Santiago and Guillermo will be in concert at the Biblioteca Azcárate in León on Thursday the 4th of August at 21:00h. The concert will be entitled EN LA CIUDAD and will include songs, poems and music inspired by the urban environment.
9th June 2005
Iván Castell has put up in his blogsome work-in-progress stills from the Blindness promo video he has directed. The video features a new song from the forthcoming Blindness record. It was filmed in different locations around Brussels and stars Sergio and Santiago.
Santiago and Guillermo are planning a concert in León this summer. The concert is likely to include songs from the new CD. More information when we have it!
9th January 2005
Non Bis in Idem play a 10th anniversary concert on the 14th of January at the Windows in Brussels. The band will play a first set including all their classic songs and then will premiere their new suite of songs Oryx a collaboration with Madeleine Bertier singer Pierre Van den Dungen. Santiago will be joining them for the first set. For more information please visit http://www.nonbisinidem.com or contact [email protected]
21st June 2004
Santiago from Blindness has made a remix of Dobranoc, a song from Dominique A's new album. The remix has won the Dobranoc remix competition organised by Dominique A's website www.dominiquea.com and his label LABELS, along with 3 other remixes made by musicians all over the world. The 4 remixes will be included in a limited edition Maxi-single to be released in September 2004.
Santiago is very happy about this, being a massive Dominique A fan. The remix was recorded one month ago in London, and features the original voice-track from Dominique A together with a piano, violins and pocket sax arrangement played and composed by Santiago. The arrangement was inspired by Arvo Part and Dominique's A performance of the (then unreleased) Dobranoc at the Francofolies in Berlin.
To listen to the remix and read Santi's explanation of it go to http://www.dominiquea.com
In other Blindness news, while the band keep working on the music, the shooting of the video for a song off the next CD will take place in three weeks in Belgium. The director will be Iván Castell.
23rd November 2003
We're back!. This summer, the "En Construcci󮦣034; concert at the AzcᲡte library in Leó®¬ Spain was a success. The venue was filled to more than capacity.
The stage was lit by a single spotlight that contributed to the intimate atmosphere and a slide projector with different images for each song.
The setlist included songs from Senne, as well as three new songs (Antibiotics, How Far to go to get here? and Darkness) and two instrumental settings for a poem by the Leó® °oet Antonio Gamoneda (who was in the audience) and "Insomnio" by Dá¡so Alonso. These last two pieces were written specifically for the concert and are as yet unrecorded.
An unplanned improvised version of the Gershwin standard "Summertime" was played as an encore. The concert was a great success, and we look forward to organising more in the future.
Meanwhile, apart from working on our new CD, we may participate in the soundtrack of the "European Group Cut Project", an exciting film project with involvement from Ivan Castell. To find out more about the project and how you can take part in it, please go to their official website http://www.europeangroupcut.tk
23rd July 2003
Santi Calvo and Guillermo Lopez will give an acoustic concert at the Sierra- Pambley Foundation in Leon, on Thursday the 31st of July at 8:30 pm
. The concert will have the title EN CONSTRUCCION and wil feature new unrecorded material, musical settings for poems as well as songs from Senne .
19th March 2003
An excerpt from Santi and Laura Calvo's cover version of Dominique A's La valse boite was featured on 1-hour the documentary "Dix Ans de A" last night.
It was preceded by Dominique saying it was a very good cover of the song.
The documentary, directed by Xavier Ess and Jean-Marc Panis was a 1-hour
documentary including live excerpts from performance by Dominique and interviews
with collaborators like Yann Tiersen and Sacha Toorop.
More info on the documentary here including show times on RTBF Satellite (next Friday) and RTBF's "La deux" (next Thursday morning).
Comment Certains Vivent offers the cover as a download in two different versions. It also includes a short comment by me, Santi, on the recording of "La valse boite".
12th February 2003
Santi and Laura Calvo's cover version of Dominique A's La valse boite has enjoyed a certain degree of success over the last few weeks. The webmasters of
his official website have confirmed that Dominique really liked the cover.
The cover is now likely to feature on a documentary on Dominique for Belgian national TV (RTBF). More info when we get it...
Finally in the last few weeks both Canclaux (a french cultural blog) and Popnews (a music webzine) have incorporated references to our musical activities.
24th January 2003
Recording on the new Blindness record continues. Recording sessions have been held since Christmas in Armunia, Madrid and Churchill College, Cambridge. The sessions have featured collaborations from other musicians and a range of unusual acoustic instruments, including viola, grand piano and harpsichord. We are very happy with the results so far, we'll see where this take us...
29th November
2002
Santiago from Blindness and his sister Laura have recorded a cover version of Dominique A's "La valse Boite". A copy of the cover has been given to Dominique A himself along with other fan covers by the webmasters of Comment Certains Vivent, the official Dominique A website. You can listen to the cover here
Non bis in Idem, including Santiago from Blindness played a concert at the VUB's KultuurKaffe in Brussels on the 9th of November. The 10-song set was warmly received by the audience. Non Bis will re-enter the studio shortly to finish recording their second demo.
31st July
2002 Blindness record finally underway.
We have agreed a schedule for recording a new CD, with November 2002 as a tentative deadline. Guillermo L󰥺 will feature as primary collaborator and co-producer.
The recordings will take place in four different home-studios in three different countries.
The aim is for different members to work on different versions and visions of the same songs. The results will then be contrasted, accepted, mixed with other versions or even discarded.
After Senne, we decided we wanted to write songs collectively. As we all live in different countries, we could only do this whenever different band members could be in the same town, meet for some hours and improvise together. From about three or four of these chaotic meetings we have distilled 10 new songs which will probably form the bulk of the record.
The new modular recording strategy is similar to our song-writing sessions for this record in that it is an attempt to make a creative use of our limitations (in this case geographical distance).
So this is the plan. We don’t know how will it evolve or where it will take us, but we know we are on our way…
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6th May
2002 Santi and Guillermo will meet this summer in Leó® ¦or 2-3 weeks of recording. The idea is to look at new arrangements of the songs in Architecture made by Guillermo and hopefully to record string arrangements
Instead of the planned concert, Non Bis in Idem (including Santi Calvo) went into S2Record Studios to record 3 songs: Tired, Hey dude and A few Kms.
Ivá® Castell, director of LEA, is currently preparing a new and ambitious project after his D7 script was selected for development at the Taller de Cine de Reus, organised by Spanish Director Bigas Luna. Blindness will probably be involved in the soundtrack.
21st April
2002 After playing the 27th of March at the old Phillips Factory in Anderlecht, NON BIS IN IDEM are planning a concert in Brussels this June. The line-up will include Santi Calvo, who will travel from London for the event. Tickets will be on sale soon, and each ticket-holder will receive a copy of NON BIS's demo "Vodka for the weekend" Meanwhile the never-ending recording of the new Blindness record continues. Actually, the tracklisting has been finalised, but there's still a lot of work to do,as each of the band members is in a different country right now... 6th February
2002 New audio page with mp3 audio of music recorded by Blindness for the D7 project and three songs from "The Real World" by Fifteen Minus One.
The demos recorded by Non Bis in Idem at S2record studio in Brussels have been finally been mixed.
6th January
2002 The recording of the follow-up to Senne (2001) continues. Pepe was in Brussels recently and recorded some backing vocals, bass and mandolin. Guillermo Lopez has also made several melodica and guitar contributions to many of the songs from Leon.
Santi Calvo has left Non Bis in Idem. The departure is caused by the relocation of Santi to London. Santi Calvo joined Non Bis In Idem in November 2000, as keyboard player, but he soon expanded to playing melodica, guitar and singing backing vocals. Highlights of his time with the band include a short set at the Klepto Bar in Brussels on Thursday the 8th of November, supporting Brussels band Madeleine Bertier, and a 4-track demo recorded at S2record Studios, which is currently being mixed and should be available soon. Both parties have expressed their hope of working together again in the future.
Pre-production and
recording of the follow-up to Senne has already begun. Santi Calvo has been
re-arranging several new songs (Antibiotics, downtown, How far, Sunset and more...)
with Guillermo L󰥺 this summer. It is not known yet when the definitive
recording will start, it will depend on the availability of the different
members. A demo CD will soon be circulated amongst Blindness &
collaborators as a preliminary step to the recording. 22nd of September 2001: ?Fifteen Minus One 1st CD "The Real
World" is out now. The CD was recorded in a week this Summer in Spain, and
is completely different to anything either of them have done! You can listen to some of the songs in the audio section 22nd September 2001: The CD "Live at
the Abbaye de Forest 22/8/2001" is now available. It features performances
by Totalitarian Jazz and other artists, including Santi Calvo from Blindness
(who also plays guitar with T-jazz). For more info please email:
[email protected] 4th of May 2001: The official webpage
for "Lea", short-film directed by Ivá® Castell (see below) is online.
It includes pictures, info on the director and main actress Ana Esteban, and
the possibility of downloading the complete film!. You can also listen to the
song Sergio and Santiago recorded for the soundtrack. The address is:
http://lea.8k.com 29 April: ?Recording of the new Blindness CD is still
in a state of flux, there are more than 12 songs written but there is no clear
concept or perspective yet. Jose was in Brussels recently, and new songs are
still being written. In the meantime Aurelia Vincent has recorded vocals for
Nomore, a song that may be on the new record. 11 March: Blindness have recently
met in Brussels to start the writing of the new CD. At the first session of
improvisations, some new songs were written and others were developped. They
include: Downtown, We can't get married, How far to go to get here, With blind
eyes, Sunset, Getting there, All is not light, Down... 3-10 March: ? Sergio and Santiago
have recorded a song for a short film directed by Blindness ex-member Ivan
Castell. The short film is called "Lea", stars Ana Esteban, and has
received a grant from the local authorities of Zaragoza. 9 March: "Somos" the
new CD from Spanish band Momentos Antes De is released. Santiago from Blindness
plays guitar on three of the tracks. "Somos" can be obtained through
Momentos Antes De's official site: http://usuarios.tripod.es/momentos/ 20 January: ? ?Senne, the latest collection of songs by
Blindness is mastered to CD. Copies available through [email protected]
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So when's that new Blindness Record coming then???