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Oliver Sonne, el héroe de la gesta de Silkeborg IF en Oddset Pokalen. – Credit: Mads Claus Rasmussen

And Oliver Sonne appeared. On the most important day wearing the Silkeborg IF shirt, that 3F Superliga club that bet on his talent, he gave a spectacular game based on an unforgettable conquest that led his team to the consecration of the Oddset Pokalen for the first time in more than two decades.

Yes, the ‘Viking’ of Peru added shine, he put the finishing touch to the Danish Cup with his scoring contribution in the most complicated moment of the match against AGF Aarhaus, in a very hot and vibrant clash that featured very bumpy passages both on the stage of the Parken Stadion – which brought together more than 35,000 spectators – and in its own stands.

Oliver Sonne celebrating with his teammates the historic goal with Silkeborg IF. – Credit: AFP

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Now what the social media has to offer is being copied again, it is the spoken word of Elon Musk’s PR specialists in his brain implant company Neuralink. On the company’s blog page, on which Neuralink now provides updates of the “Prime Study”, the most recent entry from May 8th contains an “experience report” from the Neuralink experts and that of the first patient, one hundred days after the operation Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona.

Peppered with some euphoric quotes from the completely paralyzed patient Noland Arbaugh, who is happy that he can do things again “that I haven’t been able to do in the last eight years”, the progress after the implantation of the Neuralink brain chip is reported : that he can now play chess, Mario Kart and the computer game Civilization IV with his friends while lying in bed and using only mind control; that he can even beat his friends in games that require great skill in using a joystick, like Mario Kart.

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“This is what I grew up on”

In the beginning, of course, there was jazz.

The earliest radio memories of Jan “Ptaszyn” Wróblewski, born in 1936 in Kalisz, concerned jazz and the immediate post-war years. These were, as he said, “quite strange years, when none of us, let alone a ten-year-old puppy, could have imagined what would happen. But the interest in music had already taken place.”

– You could buy records with jazz bands in stores. I mean, it was written there that these were jazz bands, but it wasn’t always and not entirely true. But they were, nevertheless, some recordings that tried to at least imitate the atmosphere of jazz – said Jan “Ptaszyn” Wróblewski in 2019. – Of course, the designs were almost exclusively American at that time. They were wonderful orchestras, and to this day I have great sympathy for them, because I grew up with them.

However, after this time of first falling in love with jazz, there came “this strange period when jazz was suddenly banned for strange reasons.”

Listen 15:45 Notes from the present 16/09/2019.mp3 Jan “Ptaszyn” Wróblewski on the beginnings of his interest in jazz music. Andrzej Zieliński’s broadcast from the series “Notes from the present” (PR, 2019)

15:32 Ptaszyn 2 ok.mp3 Jan “Ptaszyn” Wróblewski about his debut. Andrzej Zieliński’s broadcast from the series “Notes from the present” (PR, 2019)

Jazz as a political enemy

– I still can’t understand it, because it was supposed to be a symbol of imperialist music, but jazz never had anything to do with imperialists – explained the artist. – I would even say quite the opposite. Nevertheless, this music disappeared from the radio and almost all record labels were closed.

This ban, stemming from political reasons – the turn of the 1940s and 1950s in Poland, the dark times of Stalinism and, when it comes to culture, socialist realism – is, as Jan “Ptaszyn” Wróblewski put it, “still half the trouble”.

– The joke was that the term jazz meant, that is, the authorities understood, everything that smelled of any rhythm or anything from outside Poland. Jazz was samba, rumba, African folk melodies – recalled the musician in the first talk from the radio series “Notes from the Present”.

At the same time, he talked about reaching for banned music, despite these political restrictions. Reaching is sometimes paradoxical.

– I was fascinated by a recording that was played during the large-scale exhibition “This is America”, which, of course, was supposed to mock everything that was possible in America, including its music – said Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski. – Well, from the speakers there were, among other things, playing recordings of Charlie Parker, of course suitably ridiculed beforehand, preceded by some stupid jokes. But they were there nonetheless.

“I felt like I grabbed God by the legs”

Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski graduated from the Faculty of Agricultural Mechanization of the Poznań University of Technology, as well as the State Higher School of Music in Krakow. He began his musical career in 1954: he led student dance groups in Poznań, in which he played the piano and clarinet.

However, as the artist himself emphasized in his radio memoirs, he owed his initiation into jazz music primarily to Krzysz