- India, Indians, and my trip to India -
What comes to mind when you think about India: Curry? Tandoori chicken? Saibaba? Not that it matters, really. This year, the Indians came to Linz in droves. There were probably around 50 or so. Those who have never been, and never will go to India probably saw more Indians than you're likely to see in 3 lifetimes.
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- "Scratching" with a Tohoku accent -
Those in the know will have heard of Atsuko Miyazaki, the owner of coqdo Records. She's next in line after our feature with Drill. The beautiful but very tough Astuko has been maintaining a busy teaching schedule shuttling between polytechnic schools in Sendai and Fukushima, and then jumping on the bullet train back to Udagawa-cho in Shibuya for half a week before starting all over again, for almost 4 years.
I speak in Miyazaki dialect (well, strictly speaking it's closer to Satsuma dialect because I'm from Miyakonojyo), while Atsuko speaks in Fukushima dialect. I had never spoken to anyone with a Tohoku (north-eastern) accent before but hearing her speak in her drawl of hers was so pleasurable. I wonder what Atsuko, a fan of house music, thought of the Indian music she heard? Check it out!