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About Me

--- to main website"You arrive just as the sun is setting and the landscape is getting dark. You wonder briefly how you ended up at a remote village wedding in Rumainia but can't seem to remember. Half the guests are crying, half are laughing, most are drinking and every last one is dancing. The bride is delirious, the moon is gently relentless and the tambourines are spinning you around and around. The musicians play for hours on end, stopping occasionally only to suck on a bleeding finger. At first it looks like chaos. On closer inspection, it's irresponsibly happy, carefully painful music. On closer inspection yet, it's really just chaos. You are vaguely aware of someone's legs getting tired, and it doesn't seem to matter any more that your memories are sad. Just before you pass out under a tree, you hear yourself mutter a phrase you never heard before: 'Caspian Hat Dance' ..."
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Compiled from sketches drawn by Henk Langeveld at our December show in the Winston Kingdom. Thanks Henk.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/21/2006
Band Website: caspianhatdance.com
Band Members: San Juan the Spaniard o Lady Di o Mr. K o Mr. L o Vanio o Die Wilde Silvi o Juri the Goblin King
charango o quena o daf o darbouka o doum-doum o violin o water-can o guitar o accordion o bass o tambourine o flute o mandolin o vocals
Influences:
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See more videos at YouTube

mori shej, sabine [hungarian gypsy tune, written by joszef balogh kale of kalyi jag ]

amari szi, amari [east-european gypsy; this arrangement is mostly by the great anti von klewitz of the band csokolom ]

sherele [jewish]

u rusciu te lu mare [southern italian pizzica]

thanks to emese csornai, maria zendrera, michal and mercedes for the videos
Sounds Like: the voices in your brain, Ivan.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Surprise Attack! Circus Tent @ Rietveld, tonight

===(===@===S===P===1===@===N===Tonight!Circus Tent @ Rietveld AcademieFrederik Roeskestraat 9620.00 / caspian @ 22.30free===N===@===1===P===S===@===)===tonight we taunt, torment and tantalise your ten...
Posted by Caspian Hat Dance on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:55:00 PST

Tomorrow: our first free show since coming back!

===(===@===S===P===1===@===N===Friday, October 26 (TOMORROW)bar @ 22.00 caspian @ 23.00Pacific Parc, Polonceaukade 23(on Westergasfabriek terrein, Haarlemmerweg 8-10)pacificparc.nlFREE===N===@===1===...
Posted by Caspian Hat Dance on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:28:00 PST

Friday: Caspian, Zibabu, and crusty agitators at Thinkpop, Maastricht

FridayThinkpopLandbouwbelang, Biesenwal 3, Maastrichtthinkpop.nl [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] yah yahPinkpop is whate...
Posted by Caspian Hat Dance on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:10:00 PST

Friday: Amstelveen w/Antwerp Gipsy Ska Orchestra; Saturday: Iranian Film Festival

************************************Tomorrow (Friday, 21 Sep) P60 (AMSTELVEEN) w/the Antwerp Gipsy Ska Orchestra & Hoppa! Collective p60.nl ***** gipsyska.com ***** hoppa-collective.nl doo...
Posted by Caspian Hat Dance on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:48:00 PST

summer tour 2007: the caspians’ screwball mishaps and misdeeds

friends!we are back, very happy but very dazed, from our east europe / thebalkans / switzerland / italy adventure.stories and photos are forthcoming. for now, some highlights include:- playing a conce...
Posted by Caspian Hat Dance on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:52:00 PST

Thursday: Feature Night at Melkweg + a treat

-------------------------------------------------This ThursdayMELKWEG, Lijnbaansgracht 234ACost: free for the first 50 responses to this message 5 euros otherwiseDoors: 22.30; caspian: somewhere bet...
Posted by Caspian Hat Dance on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:51:00 PST

c\a.s'p'i.a/n goes to Berlin

we went to berlin.we played to a packed house of screaming jelly donuts at the SupaMollywe played with punk and dnb acts at the New Yorck Reloadedwe played on the streetand we played .. here.highlight...
Posted by Caspian Hat Dance on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:53:00 PST

TONIGHT: vanio birthday and --C.a.s'p'i.a.N-- birthday

TONIGHTdoors open 22.00 / caspian 01.00Flexbar, Westergasfabriek, Pazzanistraat 1# of euros: sevenyo yo yoy oy yoytonight is vanio's birthday. come celebrate one more year of misbehavedmotherfuckery i...
Posted by Caspian Hat Dance on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:58:00 PST

surprise attack: tonight, badhuis, 00:30

Tonight we play at the Badhuis, which in Dutch means "BAD House". Bring yourbrass knuckles & tambourines.It is the round building in the middle of Boerhavenplein, neer Weesperplein.Come see theater ki...
Posted by Caspian Hat Dance on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:55:00 PST

Wednesday: Mr. Caspian goes to Washington

**********************Wednesday, Overtoom 301, 23.30**********************Political / Student event.Don't come without a tie, a briefcase, a speech, and some well-rehearsedimprovisations!In fact our v...
Posted by Caspian Hat Dance on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:54:00 PST