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“It all started in the mid-seventies”, PIRANHA co-founder Christoph Borkowsky Akbar recalls, “when I went to Africa to research resistance movements in the German colonies of South West Africa for my doctoral thesis in cultural anthropology. The best part of my field-studies on location was the weekend parties – complete with huge ghetto blasters radiating music from Boney M to Dolly Parton. When the batteries went down, people would start making music themselves, which was fascinating, cool. Having returned to Germany, due to the uninspiring atmosphere at the university, I found myself in a state of utter depression. That’s when I realised how important music, different kinds of music, is to one’s mental and physical health.” (more…)

Michael Allan Patton is a Grammy nominated musician, best known as the lead singer of the band Faith No More from 1988 to 1998. Patton is highly regarded in alternative musical circles, and seen as something of an idol in the eyes of modern alternative youth for his air of mystique, his constantly-changing musical sensibilities, his impressive vocal range, and his experimental nature. He remains an elusive figure in music, rarely giving interviews and characteristically dismissive of his contribution to Faith No More in particular. (more…)

ROOTS & ROUTES scouts, inspires and coaches young talented musicians, dancers and media makers with diverse cultural roots and offers these urban talents talents new routes to realize their professional career. ROOTS & ROUTES supports art schools and other educational institutes in diversifying their curriculum.

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The emphasis of IMA is on unearthing female productions in the field of electronic arts, analysing their place in the overall historical context and making them visible for a wider public. With this research priority, the Institute could position itself at an international level and join the network of the few existing institutions that are also active in this field.

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Pearl Jam was the most popular American rock band of the 1990s. Since their inception, the band has sold 30 million records in the U.S. alone, and an estimated 60 million albums worldwide. Pearl Jam has outlasted many of its contemporaries from the alternative rock breakthrough of the early 1990s, and is considered one of the most influential bands of the decade. (more…)

The Honest Jons label is a creative partnership between London’s legendary Honest Jons record shop and Blur frontman Damon Albarn, dedicated to releasing an exceptional range of music to the wide audience it deserves.
“The hippest world-music label going” - Entertainment Weekly

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