Small world. The musical version,

Back in Coventry. Back on LJ too, at least for the moment. Less stressed now.

It seems to be a weekend of unexpected musical links...

The latest edition of Songlines, a 'world music' magazine, arrived on Friday. It's usually quite a serious publication - and normally quite some distance away from goth/industrial, as you might expect.

Two points of interest in this one, though...

1)Ukrainian/NYC crazies Gogol Bordello, who get a track ("I Would Never Wanna Be Young Again") on the cover CD. Frontman Eugene Hutz also gets profiled inside, with some interesting results:

What was your first (world music) album?
US punk band Dead Kennedys' Plastic Surgery Disasters - where I come from that's world music.

Class. A quick google confirms that Gogol Bordello are starting to appear in some US deathrock playlists, too - which makes perfect sense to me (out of interest - caveynik, have you heard of 'em? What d'you reckon?).

2) Crossing the Bridge - the story of music in Istanbul. A new documentary film from award-winning Turkish-German director Fatih Akin. Covering a wide range of music, from classical through to Kurdish, Armenian and Gypsy music... and the local rap scene. Oh, and it's presented by Alexander Hacke. Yes, the same Alexander Hacke who's part of Einstürzende Neubauten. (Looks like it's also featuring the music of Mercan Dede, which is definitely a good thing).

[Go. Follow the Mercan Dede link. Listen to the music on his site. Some of you will undoubtedly hate it, but hopefully someone else will like it as much as I do...]