Firste episode of Emily Naylor´s podcast on Siwan and its history, musicians, poetry and work process is published at https://open.spotify.com/show/7n6OBMBIyxCxjCSLSpogRM?si=b9e153fef87e4647 and other platforms
Below is the cover photo by Sarah Murtaja, a young photographer from Gaza, Palestine
In order to finally get to start recording Siwan 3 for ECM, we had to take some chances. Even after trying to read all instances of information about actual Covid regulations, we could not be completely sure that we could enter Denmark. For Jon Balke,, arriving first from Norway, taking the test at Kastrup and walking out , it went easy. The real thriller was Mona Boutchebak , arriving from France, with Algerian passport. But also for her , armed with a letter from ECM , all she had to endure was a short interview about purpose for her stay. The next in line is Derya Turkan , arriving from Istanbul. More will follow.