by Toplica | Oct 23, 2019 | Culture, English, Featured, News, Videos
Washed by the Moon | A Film By Dan Shutt Grupi Lab is a supergroup of southern Albanian singers, legendary for their performances of the region’s ancient polyphonic songs. Led by ‘Artist of the People’ Golik Jaupi, a favourite musician of communist... 
by Toplica | Oct 11, 2019 | Culture, English, Featured, News
Nobel Prizes for literature were awarded Thursday to two writers enmeshed in Europe’s social and political fault lines: a liberal Pole who has irked her country’s conservative government and an Austrian accused by many liberals of being an apologist for... 
by Toplica | Oct 5, 2019 | Culture, English, Events, Featured, News
The UK has the honour of welcoming legendary Albanian iso-polyphonic supergroup Grupi Lab, for the first-ever UK tour of these 3000-year-old shepherd songs, unique to the region of mountainous southern Albania known as Labëria. With their window-rattling drone (the... 
by Toplica | Oct 4, 2019 | Culture, English, News
This week, I just cannot get enough of DJ Regard’s Ride It. It’s rising up the charts as I write this, and I say it should be No.1 without a doubt. I love how the Kosovan DJ reimagines a brilliant R&B tune from Jay Sean – remember him? He should never have left... 
by Toplica | Sep 30, 2019 | Community, Culture, English, Events, Featured, News
On 21st September Manchester Aid to Kosovo was joined by some of the finest musicians from Manchester and Kosovo performing a concert in Manchester Cathedral. Manchester celebrated 20 years of recovery in Kosovo – and Manchester – with art and music from... 
by Toplica | Sep 15, 2019 | Culture, English, Events, News
The third edition of the art berlin fair opened to the public yesterday, September 12, with 110 galleries presenting their artists’ work in two vast hangars of the historic Tempelhof Airport. It is the second edition of the fair at the wartime airport built by the...