Tales Crazy

Embark on an Extraordinary Journey through the Captivating World of the Animal Kingdom

In the work of American songwriter Tom Waits, swampy blues, Beat poetry, West Coast jazz, Tin Pan Alley, country, 1930s-era cabaret, and post-Civil War parlor songs meet neon-lit carnival music and the wheezing, clattering, experimental rhythms (often played by makeshift musical instruments from car radios to metal pipes and tin cans, hence his love of Edgard Varese and Harry Partch) form a keenly individual musical universe. It has often been imitated but never replicated.

Unconscious, fiery, visionary, or all three at once? It has not been a year since Caribbean Stories, and Samy Thiébault is already back on the front with a completely crazy symphonic project on paper. This "Coltranian", decidedly, is a pure "star-eater", to quote one of the beautiful titles of Caribbean Stories, and we understand better, after the fact, this quote from a Persian poet he had put in Rebirth 's exergue, published in 2016: "Find what you want to be in yourself because you are everything.

When a frazzled New Yorker who is mad, bad and dangerous to know lands in Asia, life is never quite the same again - for anyone … Fran Lebowitz cheerfully admits that she is intergalactically self-absorbed, a little crazy and really, really hard to please - just ask her eternally patient and bemused husband, Frank. But when her life in the fast land falls apart - again - it's time for a miracle.

A Real Mum’s Hilariously Honest Tales of Motherhood, Mayhem and Mental Health