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“Gwana Impulse transforms (...) the roof terrace of the House of World Cultures into a North African oasis: global beats between the Chancellery and Bellevue Palace.“
(DER TAGESSPIEGEL, August 4, 2002)

“After the surveying work on asian underground in June, popdeurope at the House of World Cultures now prepares for an extended trip to Maghreb. Which, of course, will not necessarily stick to the African continent.“
(die tageszeitung, August 2, 2002)

“MoMo calls their sound Dar Music. It is modern and North African at the same time – a successful fusion of traditional Moroccan music on old instruments (...) and modern Western club beats with drums and computer samples.“
(Berliner Morgenpost, August 2, 2002)

“After a musical look at France, Africa and India, the new summer festival presents North Africa’s most important influences on current club music.“
(Berliner Kurier, July 31, 2002)

“Musicians from India, Great Britain, France, Russia, Argentina and the Congo bring together Tabla drumming, break beats, Indian music and drum ‘n’ bass.“
(Berliner Morgenpost, June 28, 2002)

“The sudden omnipresence of popdeurope reflects its subject, postmodernity in pop music. Nowadays, everything is everywhere at once: old music and new, Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern, serious and playful, deep and shallow, stylistically pure or altered to the point of unrecognizability – all borders are a thing of the past.“
(Ticket, June 27, 2002)

“Lisbonbons. Cape Verde sounds on the roof terrace of the HKW: the singer Sara Tavares.“
(Die tageszeitung, June 22, 2002)

“Against the backdrop of the highest organs of state – the Reichstag, Chancellery and Bellevue Palace – Europe-based musicians from all over the world will perform from June 21 to August 31.“
(mono, June 2002)

“While only a trimmed-down version of ‘Heimat Klänge’ (…) can be held this year, the House of World Cultures has initiated a new summer festival series that picks up on the concept (of world music), but asks the question the other way around: how does Europe sound in the age of globalization?“
(Berliner Morgenpost, June 21, 2002)