“We don’t want war, we don’t want revenge. We just want peace.” Due to the difficult situation in the Artsakh region, whose ethnic composition has been largely Armenian since ancient times, the Armenian community in Mexico convened on Saturday, November 7, a Classic Evening for Peace. Armenians and Mexicans of all ages gathered at the…
We just want to play music, it’s the Punk Rock style. -Maxim Mikhaylov- After months of getting along with Russian underground bands back in Moscow, and listening to their reasons and difficulties not to travel to other continents, it was such a surprise when my friend Rodrigo Jardon told me that ‘some guys from Russia’ were…
“Berlin has had an Arab population since 1960, when then West Germany invited in thousands of Moroccans as “guest workers” to help rebuild the country’s post-war economy”(1). However, with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision in 2015 to take in more than one million migrants under refugee status or humanitarian protection, I began getting interested in the…
When I first met Karen Ter-Mesropyan two years ago, I did’t imagine that he will lead me to the underground Metal scene in Moscow. It hasn’t been easy, but from the first guitar lessons he took (and then imparted), the bands he has been part of and the recording studio he runs, he has achieved…
You always find a common language with the people you play music with, but also with people that come to listen to you. Tamuz Nissim is a Jazz singer, pianist and songwriter, whose artistic experience began inside her family and has led her to very interesting places. She was born in Tel Aviv, surrounded by…
Arda is a Muscovite band from Power Metal founded in 2002 by Pavel Okunev, former vocalist of the group ‘Epidemia’, with great success during the 90s. Since my first visit to Moscow, a place called my attention, the name of which, unlike all the businesses and the craft bazaar opposite, was in English. It was…
“Where are you from?” This is the basic question that marks the beginning of countless conversations in places where cultural diversity converges almost by autonomy. Iconic cities such as Berlin or New York guarantee in advance the interaction of people from almost every nation, sometimes in spaces of less than 1 square kilometer. However, when…