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  The village in the park had started some years ago with a number of shacks where some crunchy, back to nature types had set up shop, wanting to live off the grid in the middle of the city. They […]

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/happily-ever-after-cabaret#/ Tomislav is heavily involved with a cabaret in Zagreb which focuses on LGBT rights, and they need your help. Their cabaret entertains, amuses, but also focuses  on: *educating people in our country and showing them how to accept and […]

While We wait for Janissary to appear on iTunes (although it’s already on Google Play https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Paul_Shapera_Janissary_A_Balkan_Rock_Opera?id=B4f4yutii46b5t2vv3ussdioize and Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Janissary-Balkan-Opera-Paul-Shapera/dp/B07J292HDS/ref=sr_1_9?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1539344865&sr=1-9&keywords=Paul+Shapera&refinements=p_n_feature_browse-bin%3A625150011) let us begin discussion of the next project: The Broken Cyborg, A Biopunk Fairytale (Fairypunk 2) Now I know you’re saying […]

Thank you to everybody who has bought, shared, hyped or sent me kind words regarding Janissary. My deepest, deepest thanks to you. If you haven’t already, you can check out Janissary here: https://mochalab.bandcamp.com/album/janissary-a-balkan-rock-opera Next up is The Broken Cyborg, A […]

https://mochalab.bandcamp.com/album/janissary-a-balkan-rock-opera “Janissary is incredible! I haven’t had my breath taken away by one of your albums like that since I first heard Dolls. I played it through 3 times last night.” – the one guy who’s heard it thus far. […]

I feel so bad for making all these sad stories that have bummed you all out over the past few years. I am turning over a new leaf. On Monday Tuesday i will release Janissary, a lovely heart warming tale […]

Omg! The album has leaked! And this is your one chance to listen to it before it gets pulled from the internet! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/506384196″ params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Official release due out Oct. 2!    

Due out on Oct 2nd, you can get a sneak peak at the upcoming rock opera Janissary. This track features Lauren Osborn (at the beginning) and Liel Bar-Z (in the middle) with Ivan Vukadinović on guitar. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/503276946″ params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true” width=”100%” […]

I would like to introduce you all to Liel Bar-Z, an Israeli singer who sings the part of Danijela the Mother in Janissary. You’ll just have to take my work for it that her performance is freaking incredible. Just incredible. […]

We were supposed to record the last 2 vocalists last week, but everybody involved got sick the day before, so we’ve rescheduled and it’s happening tomorrow. The album is set to release in early October. Make some noise. This is […]