raultram's VirtualTourist Home Page

I'm a global nomad. Check out my journeys at my new blog www.raultram.wordpress.com , where I write from time to time, and also upload some bad photos of mine. Enjoy it

Quite, sensitive type but if you’re prepared to take a chance you might just get to know the inner: witty, adventurous, passionate, loving, loyal, a little bit crazy, a little bit bad….(better ask Irvine Welsh on a sunday morning)

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INTERESTS….. Travels,Foreign Languages, Independent Films, Nature Adventures,World Civilisations, Diving, Books, Sufism and Derwish movement, White shirts and flowery shirts, Electronic Music(all sorts from Old school to downtempo),World Music(Sufi, music, chants,african,arabic,balkan,etcetera), PopArt(and modern art in general),Single Malt Scotch, Bauhaus, Hitch-hiking( around 100.000 km in more than 40 countries around Europe, Africa, SE Asia,The Middle East). Philosophy.

MUSIC I LIKE…..Classical,DownTempo, Dub, Sufi music, Soulful House, Electronica, Progressive Rock, Acid Jazz, Funk, Old Disco, New Wave, Gipsy Punk, Bossa Nova, Carnatic, Reggae, Classical Arabic, Opera (not all of it) , everything from Ninja Tunes, 4AD or K7 recordings……

ARTISTS I LIKE: Franz Liszt, Astrud Gilberto, Manos Hatzidakis, Roger Waters, Kraftwerk, Thievery Corporation, Richard Dorfmeister, Yannis Xenakis, Senor Coconut, Josh Davis, Towa Tei, Django Reinhardt, Oum Koulthum, Mohamed Mounir, Mory Kante, BOB Marley, Depeche Mode, Bjork, Erlend Oye, Frankie Knuckles, Danny Tenaglia, De’Lacy, Cocteau Twins, David Bowie,….just to mention a few!Yha, that’s a big salad I made up here.

FLMS I ENJOY…..Films by Rosellini, Milos Forman, Dagor Kari, LV Trier ( all dogma), Takeshi Kitano, David Lean, Tarantino, Raoul Ruiz, Emir Kusturica, Akiro Kurosawa, Andrej Tarkovski, Nikita Mikhalkov, Jean Cocteau,Theo Angelopoulos, Bernardo Bertolucci, Raul Ruiz, Pedro Almodovar, Amenabar, Juan Pablo Rebella, ….just to mention a few.And every year more and more

LITERATURE I ABSORB.…Oscar Wilde, Omar Khayam, James Joyce, Borges, JM Trevellian, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Tolstoi, Emil Cioran, René Decartes, Voltaire, Imre Kertész, Naguib Mahfouz, Jean-Paul Sartre, Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson, Bunin,Yasunari Kawabata ,Gunther Grass, Arundhati Roy, Bernard Shaw, and my childhood heroes Rudyard Kipling and Jack London…..just to mention a few.Actually every week I’m amazed how many great writers live around.