Yalla: the Uzbek band that introduced the USSR to folk-rock
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Despite its turmoils and seismic history, Berlin has always been a musical city that knows how to innovate and have a seriously good time. Even a century ago, the old Prussian capital was the trailblazing zenith of interwar Europe. A hotbed of the avant-garde, cabaret, and Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s socialist librettos, such subversion…
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A queer icon in the making.
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