On stage for the first time at five years old standing in for his mother when she was ill. From this experience, he discovered not just the way to earn a lifelong living, but the way to fame. Ibis Frade He was 20 years old when he created […]
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Estonian folklore and inventive pop music
“Bring it on” is the new album from the trio Trad.Attack! It is a mixture of Estonian folklore with electronic music, drums, synchronised rhythms, violin, Estonian bagpipes, electric guitar solos and pop-folk. The authors want go beyond all borders but without forgetting their roots. Estonia’s power trio: Sandra Vabarna, […]
The scream and the smile
“My guy”, the first of the short stories in Izumi Suzuki’s collection “Hit parade of tears”, is a love story about a young woman and an extra-terrestrial. Sean Sheehan This could be too kooky for its own good but the tale is as convincing as it is affective. […]
Melancoly and yearning
It may be a musical myth that Robert Zimmerman took the name Bob Dylan after the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Sean Sheehan Just as uncertain is whether he knew about the poet’s radio play, “Under milk wood”, written in 1954 for the BBC. A new edition of the […]
From Art Cinema to Iranian execution list
“Religion overcasts on Iran’s sky like an octopus and people are controlled like stitch dolls, if anybody speaks something athwart is condemned to execution and easily done so”, says this Iranian independent film maker. Shanta Sultana The melancholy director, a campaigner for women’s right and secular democracy in […]