NORWAY: Rejection letter in hand, Nobuhle Enyam sits on her sofa with a look of exhaustion and dejection. An original refugee of the South African apartheid regime who came to Norway through Israel in the late eighties, she is a mid-50’s mother of two with a very sad story to tell. A story of racial
Oort Cloud begins the album as an instrumental introduction. Proxima Centauri a 7 minute soundscape with an analogue feel. A circular guitar riff greets the listener for the initial 2 minutes before an intentional crescendo resulting in a double time riff by 2 minutes 50 which continues for a minute before returning the circular guitar
This week the world mourns the victims of the IS (“Islamic State”) attacks on Paris. Meanwhile, seemingly as proof of the degree to which Ukraine is peripheral to global public opinion, the resurgent conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas goes unnoticed (as do the recent bombings in Beirut).
The above promo clip from the soon to be released documentary film, “The Serpent in Paradise” that details the experience of several migrant’s who have been driven to an obscure and isolated area in 2013. On a quiet morning in the suburbs of Oslo, Norway, a man who was suspected of concealing narcotics in his
