A Blog by Robert Rigney

Robert Rigney is an old Ami from West-Berlin. Since the fall of the Wall he has been journeying ever eastwards and ever southwards, first living in Prague, then traveling the Balkans, living in Istanbul, and finally establishing a second residence in south-east Turkey.

He writes for an eclectic variety of US, UK, German and Turkish publications and is currently working on an oral history of the Balkan Beats movement.

Hanging with the Jandarma

So I finally managed to make it to Yenilmez, the  village of the “clans”. It was really a one horse town with not a single shop around, on account of

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NEMA MANE RMX

▶︎ ABOUT MUSICThis “creation” is a very first attempt of mine (Robert Soko) to put my finger into musical production back in 2008. Back then

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