The quest for healing concerns environmental challenges such as climate change as well as political and social crises. According to the 2023 Democracy Index, only 7.8 percent of the world's population live in a "full democracy". The UNHCR reports over 117 million refugees. Music, especially jazz, plays an important ...
Author, pop writer, musician and DJ Thomas Meinecke is an extremely well-informed music connoisseur. His breakthrough came 25 years ago with "Tomboy". His gender studies, which became a novel, were far ahead of their time: "An extraordinary program for which no literary example will be so easily found ...
South African drummer, composer, historian and activist Asher Gamedze, part of Angel Bat Dawid's Tha Brotherhood and companion of pianist Nduduzo Makhathini, released "Turbulence & Pulse" in 2023, a stroke of genius inspired by Charles Mingus' sound of the mid-60s and taking up the political impulse of those years ...