week we're profiling some of europe's top line mobs today charles bridge. now he's going to be one of those soft is seeing is in popular music british isles is james like a specialist in melancholy and subtle tons but he's much admired by of us as can us is called him his favorite artist and he's collaborated with the likes of jay z. and beyonce his songs of thanks and insecurity and his vulnerable male vocals have also struck a note was so many millennia els his new album assume full sees a bit of a change as it's apparent he's old enough to hop. he's one of the most desired collaborators in the music bands james blake helped shape beyond say his album lemonade and kendrick lamar's dam. and a duet with spain's pop sensation of rosalia also looms large on his current album

. but here at london's apollo hammersmith theater the fans have lined up just for him. since 2011 when he was limited to your love shot him to international celebrity james blake has come a long way. you never necessarily challenge him to actually saying how is he feel out loud not through a song not through a guitar or piano but actually in words. blake has taken that challenge upon himself laying his feelings bare for his fans. view.

his new album assume form as perhaps his most vulnerable to date the. play has also been open about his own battles including thoughts of suicide he had early in his career. in my twenty's in general i think i missed a lot of great things that happened to me i've lived a very lucky life and i think i missed some of it just through anxiety and depression and i think that people. you know a lot of people. might resonate with that. part of it was dealing with the feeling that as a man he perhaps shouldn't have feelings. the struggle to. fit the mold of the earth man we you know. that i

was i felt like i'd been prescribed by god. i think. i'm far more sensitive than i ever accepted that i was. music fits the geist of his generation of young men who want to move beyond the cliches of masculinity but who still feel pressure to hide their emotions when you 1st came on the scene blake's detractors called his songs sad boy music. this felt like personal criticism and i felt like a. stigma the continual stigmatise ation of mental health and even though i think that emotional repression obviously. i think it affects every gender but in this specific case i was talking about men because you know it's true that suicide is highest.

now blake is fairing better than before he's happier he's opened up to love in his life and in his music although he says the love songs on his album seem desperately uncool. but then again coolness isn't everything. is speaking singing for. silis faith is a light design company based in moscow who in just a few years have managed become a global player in the entertainment business they work closely with russian band leningrad but also with colombian pop star cara and this year they designed the projections for canadian superstar drake's latest tour and one of their life

installations lit up the hearts of new york. the broad flashing lights of times square make it one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world and its famous billboards have become the digital campus for russian light autists. transforming architecture open spaces all over the world with mesmerizing installations and 3 d. projections. this renovated must go aloft where the agency developed the cutting edge visual concepts creative director alexander us says their aim is to brighten up everyday life. we inherited this post soviet grayness. that's why we want to bring color to today's world. doesn't he. despite the international success still aspire to have maintained the creative ties that han collaborating with the russian chart toppers leningrad and then live to us

. it's incredible a full house and unbelievable energy which was to. have become the unlikely extra member of leningrad. they provide a visual installation for each of the $39.00 songs in the band set. that might get behind me as the model of the stage we developed for leningrad concert on the disposal to putting on the song will project different things onto 2 huge screens sometimes it's a prefab building sometimes a piece of gum or a car but shift my beat. take leningrad slot charge to the next level by playing on typical soviet imagery. but life doesn't always go exactly to plan. a little game. that distinction in this case we have

a few tricks up our sleeve. system for example the. endless loop here the 1st and the last images must be identical then when it's played spectators don't notice the at it that way a video can go on forever. the teams in must have been a good audience is imaginations around the well and in just a few showy it's still a spread have gone from a start up to an international agency. which . we're pioneers in video projection. it may sound overstated but we were instrumental in the development of this multimedia marvel want to get them we deal in. now we want to grow and conquer new markets. because we believe in russian creativity and the russian design team but i see ski

. were not poor but rather better than the rest. but it doesn't lack self-confidence but then again why should they. all this week we're featuring some of europe's top. culture today charles bridge in prague capital of the czech republic it is the main artery between the old town and what is referred to unfortunately as the less a town which you could say the little town but the prague castle anyway the bridge was originally built in the 14th century so it has been witness to a 600 years of the city's history. the charles bridge is one of europe's gothic jewels and it has a special place in the hearts and minds of the czech people. holy roman emperor charles the 4th was said to have laid the foundation stone in 1357.

barrack mine runs the charles bridge museum and has also had a few historic riverboats restored sightseers can get a view of the bridge from the water that in the. survey recently asked the czechs what historical figure they think is the most important. they answered king charles the 4th because he built things like the charles bridge and it's in the doing here when he's not the liver just. the old town bridge tower once served as a victory arch bohemian kings pass through it on the way to their coronations. most of you know that when you study it so here you can see the city's patrons. cannot charles king wenceslas and patron saints. procopius and vetoes. beat. every day an estimated 30000 people walk across the charles bridge it's

a favorite photo backdrop for newlywed couples from as far away as asia. here buskers can also find an ideal stage at an audience. that charles bridges lined with 30 statues of apostles angels n.p.o. logicians but these are copies the originals are kept safe and sound in a museum the oldest is unique about the least that is that it lets the theme this statue was the 1st to stand on the bridge it was put here in 683 it depicts st john of neptune and it's the only bronze here. the st john is the patron saint of bridges the world over but especially in your own words i like him in particular most of all he's protect people who work on the water. here on the rivers bank the 16 arches of the charles bridge dominate the view.

i like it the morning early in the evening you know people it's a good place very calm as you cross the bridge it's like you're taking a step back and it's time it's like you know every day i walk across the bridge to get to work. but it's not just a transit route to me and i'm inspired by a spiritual as well it seems here going you know makes me think about history as well as the future of those little bottles of. stone yet bagman has made over the history on this bridge as well. as his initiative a festival is held every year in may in on are of the bridge and it's patron saint them the stars shine over on and around the charles bridge.

and we'll be featuring more european law this week that solo for this edition of arts and culture more about these topics of course and other cultural news from all around the world on the website at d.w. dot com. south the crew here in berlin thanks for watching.

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