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Shani Bălcescu      Cascade / Death of a Lie (To be published)

Music

      Feeling Good - Nina Simone
      Secret Agent - Tony Allen
      Birima - Youssou N'Dour

       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 WWII

Nicolas     Cascade / Death of a Lie  (To be published)

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 
  Casamança - Youssou N'Dour

Khamadi Soglo     Cascade

Music

• House of Exile - Lucky Dube
• If I don't have you - Gregory Isaacs
• 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
• Afirika - Angelique Kidjo

Favourite book

       The Bolivian Diary - Che Guevara

Rafael Maqui     Agenda Indiscriminate  (To be published)

Music

• Cinema - Sabina Sciubba  

• 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
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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  (To be published)

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

1. ‘Of Time’ 
2. Lil Milagro Ramírez, trans. Jessica Rainey 
3. 
   
4. 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.     
5. 
   
6. 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. 
7. 
   
8. 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.    
9. 
   
10. 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