beyond the mountains

jello (again) everybody my friends around the world, Here is your weekly dose of doulterism. In today's extreme chaos of info's and messages and advice and recommendations and tips and and and and this could give you some reference :) music: As always  I'd  start with giving your the link to my  Spotify  playlist  l’ALFIERI  -  50 hours of greaaaat music -  updated on a weekly basis -  an evergreen you can always go back to! 5 albums I (re-) listen to these days Kevin Morby -  Singing Saw  (Folk) Cake -  Fashion Nuggets  (Rock) DJ Koze -  Knock Knock   (Electro) Sigur Ròs -  Agaetis Byrjun  (Rock/Ambient) Wyclef Jean -  The Carnival   feat. Refugee Allstars (Hip Hop) podcast: Planet Money The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, "Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy." Now imagine that's actually a fun evening. book: Lake Success  by Gary Shteyngart " Barry Co

jello (again) everybody my friends around the world, I wish I had more time on my hands to get deeper into some subjects like I used to, but as a lot of you are very well aware, an 18month toddler and deep thinking are often incompatible... but it will come, I promise. music: I have to insist but I highly recommend you to tune on the forever beautiful playlist of my ex-restaurant  l’ALFIERI . 50 hours of greaaaat music... I keep on updating the list on a weekly basis. an ever green you can always go back to! a few albums that nowadays make me feel alive.  they're not new, they're not hidden gems but they're soooo good! NAS - Greatest Hits  (Hip Hop) Charles Wright & The Watts - Together  (Street Rhythm Band) William Onyeabor - Who is  (African Psychedelic Electro) Beastie Boys - The in sound from way out!  (Jazz Funk) Alain Bashung - Bleu pétrole  (French Rock) podcast: FutureProofing "Series examining the implications - social and cu

jello (again) everybody my friends around the world, Now that I got back into the blogging mood yeah yeah, it is time to get a little more personal and, why not, controversial...?  music: I have to insist but I highly recommend you to tune on the forever beautiful playlist of my ex-restaurant  l’ALFIERI . almost 700 tracks that I have gathered in the years behind my bar. I keep on updating the list on a weekly basis. an ever green you can always go back to! a few albums that make me feel alive.  they're not new, they're not hidden gems but they're soooo good! OverDoz -  2008  (Hip Hop) Vitalic -  Flashmob  (ElectroClash) La Femme -  Psycho Tropical Berlin  (Surf Rock) Cult Cargo -  Belize City Boil Up  (Compilation of Belize's exuberant embrace of 1960s and 70s U.S. funk and soul) Can -  Ege Bamyasi  (70's Avant-garde Rock) podcast: How I built this "Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known compani

jello (again) everybody my friends around the world, following the overwhelming support displayed for  Beyond the mountains  part. 1 , my huge fanbase around the globe has requested a part. 2... (sigh)  so, after countless sleepless nights weighing whether I should or should not please my millions of followers, I have decided to copy/paste some more, just for you! music: the forever beautiful playlist of my ex-restaurant l’ALFIERI . almost 700 tracks that I have gathered in the years behind my bar. I keep on updating the list on a weekly basis. an ever green you can always go back to! a few albums that make me feel alive.  they're not new, they're not hidden gems but they're soooo good! Elliot Smith - Figure 8   Paul White - Rejuvenate   Kalabrese - Independent Dancer  Daniel Johnston - Space Ducks   Africa Express - Egoli podcast: Armchair Explorer "The Armchair Explorer podcast is adventure storytelling set to music and cinematic

Jello everybody my friends around the world, I was thinking it would be a neat idea to revive my good old blog that I have left a looong time ago.  The idea is to share with you some references of cultural content, since I come across a lot of good stuff these days (also thanks to your own generosity of thoughts). Music: The forever beautiful playlist of my ex-restaurant l’ALFIERI on   Spotify , almost 700 tracks that I have gathered in the years behind my bar and that I continue to update on a weekly basis, stay tuned! A few albums that I listen on loop these days: Childish Gambino -   3.15.20 U.S. Girls -   Heavy Light     Isaac Gracie -   Isaac Gracie (extended edition) Michael Kinawuka -   Home Again Fontaines D.C. -   Dogrel Podcasts: Reply All  : “‘A podcast about the internet’ that is actually an unfailingly original exploration of modern life and how to survive it.” Jon Ronson's "The butterfly effect" : "It's sort of about

With his prophet-like style, Ahmet Polat is on a quest for identity, dialogue and stories. At merely 30 years old, Polat has exposed his work in more than twenty exhibitions since 1999, at galleries including Stroom (The Hague), RAM (Rotterdam), the Photo Museum (The Hague), Karsi Sanat (Istanbul), and the most prestigious Turkish art venue, The Istanbul Modern. In 2006, the International Centre of Photography (ICP), the world’s leading photography foundation, has for the first time awarded Turkish photographer Ahmet Polat as “The World’s Best Young Photographer Award”. Polat, by wining the award, showed that he could stand proud in the international arena, along side veteran photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Thomas Rose, and Jeff Krueger. Son of a forcefully adaptive Turkish lorry-driver, Ahmet Polat’s extraordinary realization has naturally placed him as the new Turkish photography torchbearer. “I wasn’t going for it” he commented when we started recording, but still got succ

Exceptionally few people know about Geert Mak’s latest essay on the Galata Bridge, and more generally on Istanbul. Or few Turks should I add. The complexity of Istanbul’s history invites to read “The Bridge”, a wise reminder orchestred by one of the best contemporary journalist, Dutchman Geert Mak. Following the steps of chroniclers, writers and novelists such as Nazim Hikmet, Oktay Akbal, Rifat Ilgaz, Yasar Kemal, and Resat Ekrem who themselves had written about the Bridge at some point, Geert Mak gives a historical dimension of the Eurasian city’s oldest linking point over the Golden Horn. Known through centuries as Nova Roma, Constantinople or Istanbul, the metropolis cultivates distinct points of views geographically, aesthetically and metaphorically. In this context, Geert Mak reminds us that, to some, the Osman Turks’ takeover in the mid-15th century meant “the day the world ended” while others called the fall of Byzantium, the Conquest of Istanbul. Back then, and still today, ea