Moby releases 4 hours of free ambient music for those who practice yoga and meditation
Moby has shared in his site a free album of ambient music designed for those who practice yoga and meditate as he does.
A playlist to celebrate the 5th of June, World Environment Day
In occasion of World Environment Day, here is a playlist that reminds us how small we are compared to Mother Nature and that there’s still much to be done in order to preserve the environment. On World Environment Day, read more: Leonardo DiCaprio: a life for the life of our Planet. What he has done for
Neunau, the artist who forges music using Val Camonica iron
Musician Neunau created an album, recorded in the Forge Museum in Bienno, using only water, iron and microphones. All documented in a powerful video.
Peter Gabriel tests the therapeutic effects of music
Peter Gabriel, along with St. Vincent, Jon Hopkins and Esa-Pekka Salonen worked with a team of neuroscientists to study music’s effects on health.
Ben Harper, what you need to know about Call It What It Is
The release of the album Call It What It Is has sparked interest all over Europe. A good reason to retrace Ben Harper’s musical career.
Catching a glimpse of everyday life in war-torn Syria through Avo Kaprealian’s lens
Filmed over two years in Al-Midan, West Aleppo’s predominantly Syrian Armenian neighbourhood, Avo Kaprealian’s documentary, House Without Doors remains open for interpretation but also offers a strong social message. It shows how people live during wartime in an area neglected by mainstream media. Intentionally using semi-professional cameras and mobile phones to capture the confusing aesthetics
Why 9 May is Europe Day
9 May is Europe day. In 1950, then French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman gave the speech considered to be the starting point of the European Union: the Schuman Declaration. His proposal required “the elimination of the age-old opposition of France and Germany” through the union of the “Franco-German production of coal and steel under a
12 hotels for vinyl lovers
For many music enthusiasts there’s nothing like the sound of vinyl. Seventy years after its invention, vinyl records are still here and have survived the evolution of phonographs. Cherished by collectors and loved by nostalgic people, the sound of vinyl, with its crackles, comes back into fashion from time to time and seems to resist
A thousand and one stories. The winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2016
The Sony World Photography Awards are the world’s largest photography competition: this year 230,000 images were entered by photographers from 186 countries; 61 national awards were handed out; and professional, amateur and student photographers received recognitions in 28 different categories. The 2016 winners were announced in London, UK on the 21st of April and 500
23 April is World Book and Copyright Day
In a time characterised by cultural flattening and philosophical and creative aridity, books are the best way to comprehend reality. Literature has a huge power: conventional symbols give life to surprising results, able to generate powerful revolutions similar to those in science. As Franz Kafka once said, “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us”.