songs — Stories

Sawwah By The Sea

Your eyes watched me faithfully, fingers carefully following the dips and turns of my imperfect singing, matching the patchwork of words to the rhythm of music.

Thank You, RelationshipsBy Farah Beaini (Living in the land of the Kulin nation)26 January 2019TCK TOWN, tck, TCK, third culture kid, mountain, sea, ocean, holiday, summer, 2013, sun, skin, water, guitar, music, songs, sing, moment, human connection, connection Comment

Flashbacks, Flashdance and the Fabulous Fifties

I hear Sappho’s Train de Paris and I remember Garde du Nord, waiting to take the TGV in Holland, Belgium or Brittany. Abidjan's songs reminds me of an Arab market in Vienna’s Mitt Bahnhof area...

MusicBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)31 May 2017TCK TOWN, Tck, third culture kid, song, music, songs, cassettes, discs, Japan, Paris, Vienna, Greek Comment

The Metro By Berlin

I listen to The Metro and I think of how guilty I felt buying Hitler era stamps in a small shop in Vienna’s Mitt Banhoff subway station arcade and how I had to use those auto stamp machines to get to the train...