West-Berlin Daze
MARC REEDER, DANGEROUSLY Berlin for many is a stepping-stone. You do your Berlin thing and then you move on. That’s how it was for Berlin’s most famous expats: Vladimir Nabokov, Christopher…
Columnists
Discourse on Turkish hip-hop part 1 – An introduction
A month ago I was declared dead by the Turkish media. Literally. An Instagram posted this bit of misinformation, and as a result I received condolences on my social media portals. It wasn’t me who…
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Prague is Dangerous for Love
PRAGUE It was 1992. Communism was over and I was in Berlin selling computer games at the PX with private Ricky Ruez from the Bronx. The base was closing and all the Americans were going home…
Adventures in Balkan and Turkish Music
The deeper I got into the Balkans the more I began to feel the magnetic pull of Istanbul. As of Novi Pazar, everything started to tilt towards the Bosphorus. The food, the music, the language, the…
Yurovision
BERLIN-DONBASS (Part 1) My fellow musicians remember that end-of-March-2020-feeling we all had while staring in disbelief at the calendar, watching the scheduled dates vanish one by one. April, May…
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