CONVERSATION W/ GRAHAM ST. JOHN—The Ozorian Chambok House brings you the foremost thinkers and artists through its carefully curated lecture series. The Ozorian Prophet caught the vibeologiest of the psychedelic culture just before his presentation on the festival site. Sail away on words of wisdom.
Barley/ Árpa / Gerste / Orge / Cebada / Orzo—Basking in the sun of yesterday’s column, today’s issue is about mud. Now that we can look back on it from under half-closed eyelids shimmering under the sun or from the coolness of shades as our body is bronzed. Barley is a crop that grows in […]
Corn / Kukorica / Mais / Maïs/ Maiz–Now that the sun is officially back to shine down upon us, caress our backs and turn our faces and days golden, we are turning our clear eyes towards it. So today we will be looking at sun drying and at corn, perhaps the most sun-loving of all […]
Reis / Rizs / Riz / Arroz / Riso—Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice). As a cereal grain, it is the most widely consumed staple food for a large part of the world’s human population, especially in Asia. It is the grain with the […]
CONVERSATION W/ YOUTH A.K.A. MARTIN GLOVER At times, an interviewer has to step put from the shadows and let subjectivity take over the sacred requirement of objectivity. Crowded House was the only music in my life where someone came up to me and said: “I think you would like CH”. The next day I went […]
Oat / Zab / Hafer / Avoine / Avena—I am not a horse!—goes the local saying, when one mentions oats in Hungary, looked down-upon as horse fodder by the local people whose stomach are generally used to more earthy, heavy stuff (think goulash). As if horses were not majestic, beautiful, sensitive, and very very strong!
FREDERICK BERNAS – “Welcome to Paradise” is a bold claim to make, but that’s the message which greets visitors as they enter the gates of the O.Z.O.R.A. Festival. If your idea of paradise is a week-long “tribal gathering” in the middle of verdant Hungarian countryside with music spread across several stages, a plethora of cultural […]
Rye / Rozs / Seigle / Roggen / Centeno / Segale—One day a young wondering organ maker one day arrived in Pécs for his apprentice year at the city’s famous organ manufacture. Yes it all sounds a bit medieval, and it probably is. Talk is of mead, of „Viking-spirited” beer, of slow processes, but also […]