Ivan Shapovalov is a name you may not be familiar with. But one of his great legacies as a producer continues to go around the world in the voices of Yulia Volkova and Lena Katina. However, there is much more after the T.aT.u. project. Shapovalov and his ‘know how’ have reached the steppes of Kyrgyzstan,…
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…