John Zorn presses tonnes of information into my brain. I need months of listening, reading and digging, to fully grasp the magnitude of what’s happening.

This is the story of Manolis and an everyday life far away from the world; an everyday life dedicated to cooking and listening to good music. 

Since it’s still summer for us, we’re listening to and talking about two projects where the music from the Middle East is intertwining with different forms. 

Years ago, at a bar in Rhodes, while sitting under a fan, hanging from a tree we struck up a conversation with the boy at the bar – a bass player (and in Greece the staff has always studied something different to what they are doing). He overheard us talking about music and asked – Have you heard of Snarky Puppy? And I most definitely had…

The year starts off with two very interesting projects that are totally different from one another.  The first one is the new, fourth album of GoGo Penguin “A Humdrum Star” – their second album under the Blue Note label.. The second interesting project is David Murray’s “Blues for Memo”, featuring Saul Williams.

David Bowie is one of the people that have formed the musical taste of generations – innovator, aesthete, gentleman, pioneer, knowing no boundaries and always one step ahead…