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
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The house of sleep
“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 is changing
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
Berlin is a bitch and then you marry
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