Music: Lou Rivaille & Christophe Waldner — ‘Ma Préférence’ ft. Rémi Flambard
Robert Martone writes: When a concert opens with a refrain from your favorite song, you are swept up in the music, happily tapping to the beat and swaying with the melody. All around you, people revel in the same familiar music. You can see that many of them are singing, the lights flashing to the rhythm, while other fans are clapping in time. Some wave their arms over their head, and others dance in place. The performers and audience seem…
The Guardian reports: When Mahdi Alkilani first arrived in Istanbul, aged 24, he couldn’t speak Turkish. Music was his way of communicating. The musician, producer and rapper came to Turkey in 2014 after being arrested by the regime in Syria and accused of smuggling weapons, which he denies. He believes he was one of only two men to be released out of 60 detainees; the rest died in prison. He panicked about how to make a living and survive in…