Shani Bălcescu Cascade / Death of a Lie
Music
- Feeling Good - Nina Simone
Secret Agent - Tony Allen
Biko - Peter Gabriel - Walk on the Wild Side - (Lou Reed cover) Vanessa Paradis
Hey! Mama Lisa - So Kalmery
Won't Let You Break Me - Sabina Sciubba
Senegal Fast Food - Amadou & Mariam
- Thunder - Imagine Dragons
DM Crazy - So Kalmery
Vltava - Bedřich Smetana - Paper Planes - M.I.A.
- Sarama - Rokia Traore
- What's Your Tribe? - Peter Cole & Bai Kamara Jnr (Building Bridges, Label: Refugee Voices)
Books (3 most favourite)
- Life and Times of Michael K - J.M.Coetzee
- Plainsong - Kent Haruf
- Le Grand Meaulnes (English translation) - Alain-Fournier
Inspired by
E.F.Schumacher - economist/statistician
Noor Inayat Khan - SOE agent (Special Operations Executive), WWII
Nicolas Cascade / Death of a Lie
Music
- Africans - Nneka
- Ethiopia - GiGi Ejigayehu Shibabaw
- One Ethiopia Emama Enat Ethiopia - GiGi Ejigayehu Shibabaw
- Tindo - Baaba Maal
- Extreme Ways - Moby
- Talkin' About A Revolution - Tracy Chapman
- Cherie - Baaba Maal
Brain Damage - Pink Floyd
- Fantastic Voyage - David Bowie
- Afirika - Angelique Kidjo
- Freedom Soldier - Youssou N'Dour
Khamadi Soglo Cascade
Music
- House of Exile - Lucky Dube
- Walk and Don't Look Back - Peter Tosh
Revolution - Dennis Brown - Chimes of freedom - Youssou Ndour
- Stranger in Town - Gregory Isaacs
Stop That Train - Peter Tosh - Deka - Dobet Gnahoré
Favourite book
The Bolivian Diary - Che Guevara
Rafael Maqui Agenda Indiscriminate
Music
- Poinciana - Manu Dibango
- One Slip - Pink Floyd
- City Girls - JJ Cale
What is Life - George Harrison - Licence to Kill - Bob Dylan
- First We Take Manhattan - Leonard Cohen
Take Five - Dave Brubeck
May I? - Kevin Ayers - Je Veux - Zaz (Isabelle Geffroy)
So Long, Marianne - Leonard Cohen
Inspired by (film directors)
- Robert Bresson
- Chantal Akerman
- Luis Buñuel
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Cristian Mungiu
Artists / writers
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
William S. Burroughs - Francis Bacon
Clips
Chantal Akerman - D'Est
Brazilian Girls' Didi and Sabina writing 'I'interprete'
Senica Agenda Indiscriminate
Music
- La Frontera - Lhasa de Sela
- El Carretero - Buena Social Vista Club
- Cuando los angeles viajan - León Gieco
- Con Toda Palabra (Live Grand Rex Paris) - Lhasa de Sela
- El Desierto - Lhasa de Sela
- Buenos Aires - León Gieco
- Y en Cambio tu - Los Vikings de Usulutan
- Un Velero Llamado Libertad - José Luis Perales
El Extraño del Pelo Largo - La Joven Guardia
Inspired by
Roque Dalton
Homenaje al poeta Salvadoreño
Lil Milagro Ramírez
- ‘Of Time’
- Lil Milagro Ramírez, trans. Jessica Rainey
- Love the shadows,
they will save you from death,
love the night that hides you,
love the darkness,
but don’t forget, my friend,
those who don’t treasure the stars
won’t see the light when it rises.
- This is the night of the fated.
I am awake, huddling anxiety,
heavy in the shadows of despair.
I await nonetheless
the arrival
of a single word.
- I lose my way in the light, backtrack
to the mirror of dazzling days.
I seek oblivion
but every shadow is a trap set for me.
I hear of a lake dying of thirst,
recall stories of wingless birds.
Behind me remains
the dust of the yellow hours.
- I come from a city where sometimes
we have very clear evenings
– only sometimes.
Now I know why
I don’t like to discern
the colour of vultures’ wings
nor want to share the light
with those who won’t
let men smile.
Monseñor Óscar Romero