2002 George W. Bush gave his famous speech where he talked about "The Axis of Evil" and identified whole nations (Iran, Iraq etc.), not just terrorists in those countries, to be enemies of USA and democratic world. This was of course quite shocking and made many people angry. One of them was Norwegian producer Erik Hillestad who decided to start this lovely project.

Hillestad traveled to these enemy countries, including Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Syria, Cuba and North Korea, got to know female singers (professionals and amateurs) there and collected these traditional lullabies from those "evil" countries. With these women there are also couple of western women (for example Eva Dahlgren and Nina Hagen) and together they made this beautiful album "Lullabies from the Axis of Evil". And I love it! If you ever have a chance to hear it or buy it, this is really an album I want to recommend to everybody.


Lulabies lead us to the deepest and most fundamental way of communication between human beings. It is where all sharing of ideas and feelings starts.