Showing posts with label germany. Show all posts
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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Five Nigerian Girls Missing in Germany

Five Nigerian Girls Missing in Germany


Information reaching us now is that German authorities are seriously searching for 5 missing Nigerian girls who were in Bremen for an exchange programme. The girls are within the ages of 17-19.

According to german site, BILD,the girls lived in the city of Hansestadt for 6 months. They had guest families,go to school and were enrolled in Deutsch course. In their free time,they attend comet arsten football.

Their trainer Sascha Mahler said to the bold newspaper''On Saturday they were there for training in Buntentor city,everything was normal,at the end they wanted to go to the city to do some shopping, since then they have vanished!.I think they had help and planned their disappearance they left house key, monthly train tickets,they left their passports and luggage and have deleted their Facebook profile''

Their flight back to Nigeria was supposed to be on Sunday July 27,2014. Their visas have expired as well.

Police Chief Ines Roddewig says ''We are not ruling out any crime but it is also clear they didn't want to take that flight back''

The police is asking for anyone who knows anything to call them as well.

What do you think happen to them or was it planned?

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Friday, October 14, 2016

Family of Percussion Guests in the fabulous Sunday Palaver Germany 1980

Family of Percussion Guests in the fabulous Sunday Palaver Germany 1980






Peter Giger et cie. made a handful of records of which this third from 1980 is the most accessible, in my view.  Note the presence of progressive luminary Wolfgang Dauner (perhaps that word is insufficient, lets refer to him as German artistic genius with the golden Midas touch, every album he was involved in such as the Et Cetera band turned to musical gold).  But lets not ignore Peter Giger, of Dzyan and subsequently Giger Lenz Maron fame, and Sax player Alan Skidmore (Soft Machine connection there), plus the great Trilok Gurtu.  (The last and least known members Doug Hammond and Tom Nicholas were percussionists as well.)  I guess these all-percussion albums were another odd trend of this progressive period in time, I doubt many such are being made today anymore.

Check the prestidigitation of all sixty fingers from 6 humans in this track:




Amazing?  Unfortunately their other records are not quite as good, with a surfeit of the percussion to which their name is all too deeply indebted.  The first in particular, wherein the band name appears as album title, was all improvised, and mostly drumming.
But thanks to my friend for introducing this little jewel which I would otherwise have eschewed.




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