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Enjoy your favourite chart toppers from the swingin' Sixties, including The Shadows, Roy Orbsion, Eddie Cochran and Brenda Lee. The 1960s saw funk and soul music rising in popularity; rhythm and blues in general remained popular, and this style was commonly associated to Girl groups of the time, whose fusion of R&B and Gospel with rock and roll enjoyed success until the mid-part of the decade. Aside from the popularity of rock and R&B music in the 1960s, Latin American as well as Jamaican and Cuban music achieved a degree of popularity throughout the decade, with genres such as Bossa nova, the cha-cha-cha, ska, and calypso being popular. From a classical point of view, the 1960s were also an important decade as they saw the development of experimental, jazz and contemporary classical music, notably minimalism and free improvisation.

In 1844 a charismatic young Persian merchant from Shiraz, known as the Bab, electrified the Shi’ih world by claiming to be the return of the Hidden Twelfth Imam of Islamic prophecy. But contrary to traditional expectations of apocalyptic holy war, the Bab maintained that the spiritual path was not one of force and coercion but love and compassion. The movement he founded was the precursor of the Baha’i faith, but until now the Bab’s own voluminous writings—complex, mystical, highly symbolic—have been seldom studied and often misunderstood. Gate of the Heart offers the first in-depth introduction to the writings of the Bab.

Let go. Fall in. Follow the spiral, and find your centre. Move and whirl, headbang and hair whip, into a place that is out there and deep within, an altered state where minds open, boundaries fall away and trust - in values, principles, ourselves - is rediscovered, made real.

Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul is the story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years.

"Je ne sais pas si l'on peut dire que la bande dessinée est un art, je serais plutôt sceptique… Je me considère plus comme un bon artisan. Les artistes peuvent eux s'accorder plus de liberté. Nous devons respecter une foule de contraintes, des règles précises, c'est un travail terriblement sérieux. Un artiste dessinant un avion pourra l'idéaliser, nous non. Certes, on peut l'interpréter, mais quoi qu'il en soit son dessin doit rester de la bande dessinée. Toute entorse à la réalité normée doit avoir sa justification. Ce qui est important dans notre travail, c'est d'arriver à sa propre marque de fabrique, être personnel et identifiable. Tout cela est bien plus difficile qu'il n'y parait. Moi-même je n'y suis arrivé que sur le tard." Sergio Toppi