Hiromi’s latest album Spectrum (Telarc 2019) came as a reflection of the storm happening within our souls. Like a spectrum, a rainbow full of colours that range between black and white. Joy and warmth for red and orange, positivity for yellow, life for green, melancholy and wisdom for blue and purple, to the sorrow and the suffering of black. 

There are very few people in the contemporary world, that tell a story with music – no, they do not take you into their world of depression or joy, they don’t take you through their break up or sorrow. They just tell a story. With Cyro Baptista, the magic is alive. Magic is like air, full of positive bubbles.

If the upcoming autumn season has made you sad, and you are already missing summer, today we have a couple of ideas for short musical trips through the Balkans. 

From sunrise to sunset, from summer to winter, Musicaround.bg has turned one. In honour of our first year, we offer you a playlist with the music that we listened to throughout this year.

Iggy Pop’s latest album that came out on September 6th on Caroline International and Loma Vista Recordings, and the single James Bond, provoke thoughts on the Iggy Pop of today – somewhere between punk and jazz, through the album with Jamie Saft, James Bond, the album Free, to his programme on BBC Radio 6 – Iggy Confidential. 

Kythira is the type of island, that even the Greeks themselves do not know where to place – geographically it is a part of the Ionian Islands, and administratively it belongs to Athens. Here, we have three stories about this “confused” island.