It was the 5th of July, a Friday night. The taxi was running in a still sleeping, silent and unusually desert Milan. I was still in the process of realizing that, since I was about to start my internship at Grameen Bank, I was on my way to a new country, one of those … Continua a leggere
“Huge, grey and imposing, Ashdown stood on a headland, some twenty yards from the sheer face of the cliff, where it had stood for more than a hundred years.” Take England in the ‘80s. Take Thatcherism, the social uprisings. Take some Smiths songs. Take odd intrigues and absurd coincidences. What you get is a typical … Continua a leggere
Music, and the world revolving around it, is changing, and the record industry seems to be the only one who doesn’t actually see it. Music is just a display of the world, therefore as the world changes, music changes accordingly. It changes because making music means following new and old techniques, new trends and … Continua a leggere
These thoughts about Berlin date back to a summer night on the grass of the Tempelhof airport. Flughafen Tempelhof (at the U-bahn stop Platz der Luftbrücke on the U6) is one of my favorite places in Berlin, a real airport right in the city center, shut down for good in 2008. In 2010 it … Continua a leggere
