Feature: "Slow Music Berlin" (Slow Travel Berlin)

"One thing that always helps us unwind at Slow Travel Berlin is music." So here's a collection of Berlin associated music that suits the Slow Life. Settle in, now...

Feature: "Slow Music Berlin" (Slow Travel Berlin)

Live Review: "Not The Archandroid We're Looking For: Janelle Monae Live" (The Quietus)

After "the kind of coverage normally reserved for drug-addled models with absent minds when it comes to underwear", it was my turn to check out Janelle Monae, and I even got to take pictures of her doing shadow puppets, while The Quietus editors got to indulge their Star Wars fixation in the headline. Yep: it's all right here.

Live Review: "Not The Archandroid We're Looking For: Janelle Monae Live" (The Quietus)

Feature: "Dialogue Berlin" (Slow Travel Berlin)

Living abroad is all very well, but sometimes you seek the comforts of your homeland, and Sharmaine Lovegrove's Dialogue Books aims to provide English language books to people in Germany, while simultaneously helping to cultivate a literary scene in Berlin. I talked to her for Slow Travel Berlin.


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Feature: "Dialogue Berlin" (Slow Travel Berlin)

Feature: "Let's Dance. No, Thank You" (Electronic Beats)

I'm not much of a dancer. "When someone invites me to go clubbing, I shudder and break out in cold sweats. This might seem odd, but until you’ve been questioned about epilepsy whilst freaking out to Prince, or have reached for a non-existent hand when attempting an archaic prance, you cannot understand my fear." Electronic Beats asked me to elaborate. Click the pic to find out more.

Feature: "Let's Dance. No, Thank You" (Electronic Beats)

Album Review: Codes In The Clouds - As The Spirit Wanes (Uncut)

3/5
Dramatic instrumentals from Dartford

Though novelty’s in short supply on this quintet’s second album, intensity and commitment are not. Mining the same seam of cinematic post-rock as Mogwai and Explosions In The Sky, they specialise in delicate guitar-focussed passages that bloom and explode with a primitive, dramatic beauty. Recorded in only five days, much of it displays a welcome sense of urgency as well as a lack of pomp, with ‘Look Back, Look Up’ as close as the genre gets to pop. Perhaps due to its mastering by labelmate and pianist Nils Frahm, there’s also a gratifying eye for detail in their arrangements.

Album Review: Codes In The Clouds - As The Spirit Wanes (Uncut)

Album Review: Beat Milk Jugs - 10 Years Of Hangovers (Uncut)

3/5
Preposterously named electronic indie from Latvia

Originally from Daugavpils but now based in the UK, Beat Milk Jugs have travelled equally far into the past for musical inspiration. ‘Dvina’ opens with a ghostly Russian voice, but it’s soon lost amidst fierce ‘Firestarter’ programmed drums, while ‘Not My Day’ finds common ground between New Order and Ride, lazy Bernard Sumner-esque vocals drawled over an increasingly tense bed of shiny guitars. ‘7th Street’ offers raw guitars and a bizarre vocal sample concerning sausages, and elsewhere hints of Underworld, Nine Inch Nails and, oddly, Fourtet can be found within this unsophisticated but often pleasingly ferocious malevolence.

Album Review: Beat Milk Jugs - 10 Years Of Hangovers (Uncut)

Album Review: Jesus & Mary Chain's 'Upside Down - The Best Of' (BBC Music)

"To declare, as this CD’s artwork does, that East Kilbride’s The Jesus and Mary Chain are "arguably the last great British rock’n’roll band" is almost as provocative as the music with which they kicked off their career..."

And so begins my review of this retrospective of the legendary Scottish Reid brothers' career. Read it all here.

Album Review: Jesus & Mary Chain's 'Upside Down - The Best Of' (BBC Music)

Feature: "Let The Red Rag Fly" (The Quietus)

"It's hard to divorce music from its creators, and if 'Picture Book' is judged in the light of Mick Hucknall's subsequent slide into serial-shagging champagne socialist capable of disgusting even the coffee table owning, tabloid reading masses who buy his records then it's unlikely that it's going to get a fair hearing."

Still, never one to shirk my responsibilities, here's a defence of Simply Red's debut album, the politically charged and desperately underrated 'Picture Book'...

Feature: "Let The Red Rag Fly" (The Quietus)

Feature: "Musical Minimalist" (Slow Travel Berlin)

Berlin's always been known to foster an impressive musical scene, but until recently it's been largely focussed on electronic music. Now there's a new breed of avant garde musicians making a name for themselves, and Erased Tapes' and Bella Union's Peter Broderick is one of them. I spoke to him for Slow Travel Berlin..

Feature: "Musical Minimalist" (Slow Travel Berlin)

Feature: "Video Nasties" (JMag)

It was M.I.A.'s 'Born Free' that highlighted just how the new breed of music videos tries to get our attention, something I already looked at for Intelligent Life. Australia's JMag asked me to investigate the new phenomenon of Music Video Nasties a little further. Click the pic to read more...

"If you want your band to be seen, break a few taboos with your next video clip..."

Feature: "Video Nasties" (JMag)

Feature: "I've Got A Crush On You - The Revival Of The Berlin Festival" (The Quietus)

Back on home turf, and it's time to see what the troubled Berlin Festival can offer. "It’s taken time for this event to establish itself in the city, its reputation tarnished by tales of bad sound and low ticket sales in the past, but the 2010 line up, a sterling collection of international acts covering an impressive range of styles, suggests organisers have made a significant push to turn things around."

Did they succeed? You'll have to read this to find out...

Feature: "I've Got A Crush On You - The Revival Of The Berlin Festival" (The Quietus)

Album Review: Francesco Tristano - Idiosynkrasia (Uncut)

3/5
Luxembourgian brings the piano into the 21st Century

This unlikely collaboration finds Detroit’s legendary Carl Craig producing Juillard-trained pianist Tristano for a groundbreaking hour of rewired techno, house and classical music. Like a less abstract Murcof – who produced Tristano’s debut – the results blur boundaries between acoustic and electronic sounds, Craig treating Tristano’s grand then sending it shimmering over layers of percussion and effects. So “Mambo” builds to a stormy climax from a bass line stabbed out on a Hauschka-like muted piano amidst minimalist electronica, while “Idiosynkrasia” eagerly eyes the dancefloor. But it’s the hypnotic 11-minute “Hello – Inner Space Dub” that flies furthest.

Album Review: Francesco Tristano - Idiosynkrasia (Uncut)

Album Review: Silje Nes' 'Optiks' (BBC Music)

And so, yet another musician decamps to Berlin to work on their new record. Norwegian Silje Nes' second album, Optiks, is, according to my random word generator, a "soothing collection that sounds like it was recorded late at night under threat of eviction". Other words either side of this extract can be read here.

Album Review: Silje Nes' 'Optiks' (BBC Music)

Album Review: a-ha's '25 - The Very Best Of' (BBC Music)

It pains me now to think of the way I dismissed my sister's love for a-ha when I was growing up, though she has since told me that she no longer understands what she saw in them. I, meanwhile, have somehow come round to the Norwegian popstars. "This thorough 39-song survey leads one to the unexpected conclusion that they were the Coldplay of their generation," my BBC Review suggests, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, as you can see here.

Album Review: a-ha's '25 - The Very Best Of' (BBC Music)

Album Review: Neil Young's 'Le Noise' (BBC Music)

What a pleasure and a privilege to be asked to review the latest album from a veteran like Mr Neil Young. "There are," I suggest, "no drums, no hurricane solos and, it has to be said, no great signs of a melody." But does that mean it's bad? Possibly not. Find out more here...

Album Review: Neil Young's 'Le Noise' (BBC Music)

Feature: "More Than You Can Chew" (JMag)

A trip to Iceland's western fjords nearly ends in disaster and my head in the toilet bowl. Want to know why? "We’re about to eat puffin. Puffin and sheep’s head. And whale. Whale blubber, it looks like. And dried fish." But that wasn't all. Click the pic - which may or may not be me - to find out what else was on the menu...

Feature: "More Than You Can Chew" (JMag)

Album Review: Timber Timbre's 'Timber Timbre' (BBC Music)

Canadians Timber Timbre caught me off guard with their third album. The full story is here.

"Filled with the kind of tunes that sound as though they were conceived specifically with the likes of True Blood in mind..."

Album Review: Timber Timbre's 'Timber Timbre' (BBC Music)

Feature: Travel Guide to Bodø (Matador Trips)

For the last three years I've ben heading to North Norway for the Træna Festival, and this has meant that I've spent a fair amount of time in the largely ignored city of Bodø. This is my attempt to shine a little light on a really rather lovely part of the world...

"Wielding a driver on their range, with the fjords to my left and scraggy, ice-topped hills to my right, I felt like I was at Scotland’s Gleneagles. I concede that the course I played is a little less groomed, but it’s still in better condition than my swing..."

Feature: Travel Guide to Bodø (Matador Trips)

Feature: Stretching Out On The Seas (Brave New Traveler)

"It’s 8.45am on Saturday morning, and I’m being guided to my yoga class by a reindeer." Yep, it's the kind of opening sentence I always dreamed of writing. Join me as I head out on the first ever Arctic Yoga Safari in Northern Norway. The story is here. Breathe in.... Breath out...

Feature: Stretching Out On The Seas (Brave New Traveler)

Feature: David Bowie - Fantastic Voyages From Beyond The Hits (The Quietus)

 The Quietus stirred up a rather entertaining debate about the Thin White Duke himself, Mr David Bowie, when they invited their writers to select their favourite non-single tracks from the man. The full article, with a couple of my own contributions, is right here.

Feature: David Bowie - Fantastic Voyages From Beyond The Hits (The Quietus)

Feature: Out Of My Cave (The Quietus)

One Norwegian 'Northern Rose' marble mine, one music and arts festival, one hell of an experience. The Quietus allowed me to introduce the world to the Ut Av Vår Hule festival here...

"It's odd to find myself jerking occasionally out of the trance the band's induced to emerge into this white frozen tundra, shivering instinctively, only to realise that it's still warm. My eyes are lying to a brain lost in music..."

Feature: Out Of My Cave (The Quietus)

Album Review: Yann Tiersen - Dust Lane (Uncut)

3/5
French soundtrack composer returns to his rock roots

Though best known in Britain for his Amelie soundtrack, Yann Tiersen’s music is far more elaborate and Dust Lane, his first for Mute, leans on sounds of his youth like The Birthday Party and Nirvana. Opener ‘Amy’ wrongfoots with both its name and peaceful introduction, but the extravagantly epic arrangements that follow – produced by Ken Thomas (M83, Sigur Ros) – are far more indicative of Tiersen’s current muse. ‘Fuck Me’, with vocalist Gaelle Kerrien’s breathy vocals entreating us to “Make me come again”, is paradoxically the most tender track here, while the dramatic, elaborately arranged ‘Palestine’ is breathlessly fierce.

Album Review: Yann Tiersen - Dust Lane (Uncut)

4/5
The kids are not delighted

If Delphic are this generation’s New Order, then O. Children are their Sisters Of Mercy. The London quartet inhabits a dry-iced world of doom and gloom, vocalist Tobi O’Kandi mining Eldritch’s melodrama while plumbing depths even Michael Gira would struggle to reach. Channelling both the sincere, literary indie rockers of the 1980s as well as their stadium rock counterparts – ‘Dead Disco Dancer’ starts like The Cure and ends like Simple Minds, ‘Fault Line’ could be an agitated Triffids covering Killing Joke – their sound may be familiar and their songs conventional, but they’re impressively committed nonetheless.

Album Review: Laetitia Sadier - The Trip (Uncut)

3/5
Debut solo outing from Stereolab vocalist

With Stereolab on hiatus following her split from Tim Gane, Sadier finally goes it alone, discarding her Monade identity and largely replacing krautrock with French chanson. ‘One Million Year Trip’ may have a curious Can-go-Goth appeal, and ‘By The Sea’ (a Wendy and Bonnie original) hints at the ‘Lab’s lounge-pop, but ‘Statues Can Bend’ recalls Françoise Hardy at her romantic 70s finest, and ‘Un Soir, Un Chien’ (a Les Rita Mitsouku cover) draws upon the Yeh Yeh Girl’s 80s era. Sadier’s intonation is occasionally awkward, but her uniquely compassionate yet oddly detached voice remains as affecting as ever.

Album Review: Laetitia Sadier - The Trip (Uncut)

Album Review: S. Carey's 'All We Grow' (The Quietus)

Only a week after penning words about Radiohead drummer Phil Selway's solo debut I'm waxing lyrical about Bon Iver drummer Sean Carey's magical debut, this time for The Quietus. Click Click...

"Embroidered with rich harmonies, imaginatively arranged, lyrically expressive if still enigmatic, it exudes a gorgeous calm and warm sentiment..."

Album Review: S. Carey's 'All We Grow' (The Quietus)

Album Review: Ten Ken's 'For Posterity' (BBC Music)

Righteous anger but just slightly out of tune... Ten Kens reviewed for the BBC here.

"... they’ve fortunately messed with the formulae, throwing in healthy doses of hardcore, post-punk and even goth..."

Album Review: Ten Ken's 'For Posterity' (BBC Music)

Album Review: Phil Selway's 'Familial' (BBC Music)

I guess I must be becoming part of the establishment now. I get to review the solo debut from Phil Selway - rock legend Radiohead's drummer - for the BBC, no less. Read all about it here.

"Even the most fervent of Radiohead fans might lack the patience to get excited about this humble collection. But therein lies its charm..."

Album Review: Phil Selway's 'Familial' (BBC Music)

Photo Essay: Ut Av Vår Hule Music & Art Festival in Arctic Norway (Matador Network)

Another trip to Norway, and another spectacular adventure: the Ut Av Vår Hule Music and Art Festival in Fauske takes place every second year in the extraordinary surroundings of the old marble mines just outside town. Matador Network invited me to contribute a Photo Essay to their fine site, and you can see it here.

Photo Essay: Ut Av Vår Hule Music & Art Festival in Arctic Norway (Matador Network)

Album Review: Slowdive's 'Pygmalion' (BBC Music)

Sometimes it's great to have an excuse to visit a band's back catalogue, and the arrival of Slowdive's was no exception. BBC Music gave me the chance to explore their final album in depth right here.

Album Review: Slowdive's 'Pygmalion' (BBC Music)

Feature: Walking On The Moon - The Story Of The Police - An Extract & Q&A (The Quietus)

I can't claim responsibility for much of this article since it's a significant extract taken from Chris Campion's revealing look at the rise of The Police, but there's an introduction, a Q&A, and Campion's thorough prose about the band's trip to Egypt, Japan and beyond. Read it all here.

Feature: Walking On The Moon - The Story Of The Police - An Extract & Q&A (The Quietus)

Feature: The Power Of Propaganda - A Secret Wish 25 Years On... (The Quietus)

Propaganda's debut album, A Secret Wish, remains one of my favourite records of all time, and The Quietus gave me the chance to eulogise it a quarter of a century after its release, coincidentally (I think not) on the eve of its reissue. Read my enthusiasm here.

"If Frankie Goes To Hollywood were the garish cartoon gang And Art Of Noise the bespectacled nerds in the science lab, then Propaganda were their fearsome, gothic nemesis..."

Feature: The Power Of Propaganda - A Secret Wish 25 Years On... (The Quietus)

Album Review: Dean & Britta's '13 Most Beautiful... Songs For Andy Warhol's Screen Tests' (BBC Music)

Dean Wareham and his wife Britta Phillips get to grips with Andy Warhol's slow motion portraits, providing a soundtrack for a Baker's Dozen of 'em. Read about the results here.

Album Review: Dean & Britta's '13 Most Beautiful... Songs For Andy Warhol's Screen Tests' (BBC Music)

Album Review: Seeland - How To Live (Uncut)

3/5
Midlands space-pop alumni return to earth

Adopting a more playful approach to the retro-futurism they helped pioneer with former bands Broadcast and Plone, Tim Felton and Billy Bainbridge combine krautrock and psychedelically baroque ‘60s arrangements to often impressive effect on their second album. Though they fail to break ground not already mined by both their previous bands and early patrons Stereolab, hints of a bitter-sweet melancholy, especially on the easygoing ‘Cardinal’, add a welcome earthbound twist. Opener ‘Black Dot’ canters along like Neu!, ‘Armour’ offers a harpsichord-flavoured dreampop, and ‘Afterthoughts’ proves they have an ear for melody as well as squelchy keyboard sounds.

Album Review: Seeland - How To Live (Uncut)

Album Review: Cavil - Mares’ Tails (Uncut)

3/5
Delicious lofi melancholy from Leeds

Like the clouds after which it’s named, Gareth Cavill’s second album may appear delicately beautiful but hints at unsettled weather ahead. As he traces wistful acoustic patterns over gentle waltzes soaked in sadness, Cavill’s glum voice delivers memorable lines like “your beautiful mouth is filled with terrible teeth”, while spoken word closer ‘Small Moments’ praises the simple pleasures of solitude. Those nostalgic for Sarah Records will also revel in ‘Cold Heaven’’s sparkling crescendo and, especially, ‘These Things’, whose brushed drums and echoing guitars sound like an English Pennines take on East River Pipe’s intimate sadness.

Album Review: Cavil - Mares’ Tails (Uncut)

Feature: The Real Story Of Life - Dean Wareham On Galaxie 500 and Lou Reed (The Quietus)

I can still remember how excited I was to discover that Galaxie 500 had written a song about my birthday, July 4. I can also remember the first time I heard Luna's version of 'Indian Summer' and how it hypnotised me. It was a pleasure, therefore, when Dean Wareham got in touch to tell me about his latest project, 13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests. My formal interview is here.

"Orwell said somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliation..."

Feature: The Real Story Of Life - Dean Wareham On Galaxie 500 and Lou Reed (The Quietus)

Feature: The Joy Of Text (The Quietus)

A chance encounter at the Berlin Film Festival led to a ticket to see 'Howl', the story of how Allen Ginsberg's poem changed America. I loved it. Read my story here.

"There is no truth, only opinion"...

Feature: The Joy Of Text (The Quietus)

Album Review: Max Richter's 'Infra' (BBC Music)

Max Richter continues to blur the boundaries between electronic and classical music with his latest release, Infra. My review for BBC Music is right here.

"Now, it seems, you've got every chance of finding what used to be termsclassical music on your favourite indie label..."

Album Review: Max Richter's 'Infra' (BBC Music)

Feature: When Athletes Attack (The Quietus)

With World Cup Fever in full flow, but England flailing, it's time to look at other sporting heroes who've given us (for the most part) something to laugh at. The Quietus presents ten of my Musical Sporting Heroes here.

"'I thought I did well,' Jacklin later defended himself to Golf Digest magazine, 'yet somehow I never overtook The Beatles in popularity.' He should have used a Norwegian Wood."

Feature: When Athletes Attack (The Quietus)

Album Review: Mantler - Monody (Uncut)

3/5
Toronto’s antidote to Jamie Lidell’s pastiches

With a soft voice reminiscent of Robert Wyatt, Chris Cummings’ understated take on neo-soul is unashamedly blue-eyed, leaning as heavily on Hall & Oates as on Marvin Gaye, though opener ‘Fortune Smiled Again’ also hints at Steely Dan in its pristine sound. Monody, however, is more focussed on moody grooves than flash production, with tunes like ‘Fresh And Fair’ perfect for Californian poolside cocktails. Collaborators include Owen Pallett and Junior Boys’ Jeremy Greenspan, but it’s Cummings’ 1970s Wurlitzer that takes centre stage, especially on the beautifully laidback ‘Also Close To The Rainbow’ and the minor key ‘Author’.

Album Review: Mantler - Monody (Uncut)

Album Review: Klak Tik - Must We Find A Winner (Uncut)

3/5
Intricately arranged orchestral folk

The improbably named Soren Bonke, the London based Dane behind eight piece Klak Tik, clearly knows his baroque US indie. Opening track ‘The 2nd Wave Is Bigger’, with its brass, glockenspiel and gently strummed guitar, recalls the creaking charm of early Lambchop, while ‘With Ernest & George’ offers the same vulnerable intimacy Sufjan Stevens perfected on Come On Feel The Illinoise and ‘I Am Your Memory’ the abstract complexity of Gastr Del Sol. But though the prevailing mood is melancholic, there’s room for plenty of surprises, with ‘Knuckles, Depressed’ straddling the divide between Tom Waits and Calexico.

Album Review: Klak Tik - Must We Find A Winner (Uncut)

Album Review: The Soundcarriers - Celeste

4/5
A great leap backwards in time

It can’t be coincidence that The Soundcarriers’s second album opens with ‘Last Broadcast’: the Nottingham four piece gorge on the same ‘60s psychedelia and cosmic folk as Broadcast, with stoned Gallic harmonies floating over valve amps, Hammond organs, flower-power flutes and Krautrock rhythms. ‘Morning Haze’, with its shimmering keyboards and lowslung bass, is a soft-focus summer delight, while ‘Rolling On’ sounds like The Free Design reared on Motown. In fact – like predecessor Harmonium – Celeste recreates the era so authentically even DJ Shadow might suspect its natural reverb and split stereo had been rescued from David Axelrod’s vaults.

Album Review: The Soundcarriers - Celeste

Feature: The Berlin Stories (Slow Travel Berlin)

Christopher Isherwood's 'The Berlin Stories' remains vital reading for anyone looking to get beneath Berlin's skin. Read my piece for Slow Travel Berlin here.

"Those who've spent time in cafes people-watching or working will understand barman Bobby's complaint about customers who 'order a beer and think they've got the right to sit here the whole evening'..."

Feature: The Berlin Stories (Slow Travel Berlin)

Album Review: Micah P Hinson 'And The Pioneer Saboteurs' (BBC Music)

My first review for the BBC Music site concerns Micah P. Hinson, his "weather-beaten baritone" and "his powerfully ominous reshaping of old-school Americana". Read it here.

Album Review: Micah P Hinson 'And The Pioneer Saboteurs' (BBC Music)

Feature: The New Sound Of Southern Rock (Electronic Beats)

And so, as the World Cup rumbles on, here's a look at the emerging indie rock scene within the host nation's borders, including interviews with Dear Reader and BLK JKS.

"Interest in South Africa’s ‘alternative’ musical scene hasn’t just been absent the last few years: it never even existed. Naming bands from Australia to Iceland is little challenge, but coming up with even one from South Africa whose roots lie in what we recognise as ‘alternative’ music was, until now, next to impossible."

Feature: The New Sound Of Southern Rock (Electronic Beats)

Feature: Don't Be Afraid, You Have Just Got Your Eyes Closed Part 2 - Notes From The Aldrei Festival (The Quietus)

Kid rappers, Astrakhan coats, 'Pink Ladies' and Oscar nominated directors: my adventures at Iceland's Aldrei Festival continue on The Quietus here.

Feature: Don't Be Afraid, You Have Just Got Your Eyes Closed Part 2 - Notes From The Aldrei Festival (The Quietus)

Feature: Solid Gold (Slow Travel Berlin)

A short piece on Berlin's Solid Gold store, THE place to buy band t-shirts and assorted oddities:
http://www.slowtravelberlin.com/2010/06/07/solid-gold/

Feature: Solid Gold (Slow Travel Berlin)

Feature: Don't Be Afraid, You Have Just Got Your Eyes Closed - Notes From The Aldrei Festival Part 1 (The Quietus)

Part One of my epic report from the remote Aldrei Festival in Iceland's West Fjords, home to "Balkan polka, sunshine pop, thunderous electronica, Icelandic blues, death metal, folk, indie rock and, this year, a new form of bling bling hip hop that will be delivered by a chubby cheeked kid who looks like he probably only mastered his ABC a few short years earlier..."

Read it here (but perhaps put the kettle on first!):
http://thequietus.com/articles/04355-mugison-s-aldrei-f-r-g-su-ur-festival-iceland

Feature: Don't Be Afraid, You Have Just Got Your Eyes Closed - Notes From The Aldrei Festival Part 1 (The Quietus)

Feature: 25 Years On: Remembering The Colourfield's 'Virgins & Philistines' (The Quietus)

Summer arrives, and with it the time to look back at Terry Hall's fantastic debut album with The Colourfield, Virgins & Philistines, whose "overwhelming mood is, true to form, that of imminent regret, the foreshadowing of things going wrong or at the very least not working out as hoped..."

It's all here:
http://thequietus.com/articles/04378-25-years-on-terry-hall-remembering-the-colourfield-s-virgins-philistines

'Virgins & Philistines', whose "overwhelming mood is, true to form, that of imminent regret, the foreshadowing of things going wrong or at the very least not working out as hoped if, indeed, it's not already too late..."

Feature: 25 Years On: Remembering The Colourfield's 'Virgins & Philistines' (The Quietus)

Feature: In Praise Of Edgar Reitz's 'Heimat' (Slow Travel Berlin)

An ex-pat's take on the wonderful first season of the evergreen 1980's German TV series, Heimat:
http://www.slowtravelberlin.com/2010/06/02/in-praise-of-edgar-reitzs-heimat/

Feature: In Praise Of Edgar Reitz's 'Heimat' (Slow Travel Berlin)