Liapin (Afrilounge)

Already as a 4 year old, Richard Liapin played the trumpet in a subsidy programme of young talents in Estonia. But tagging a statue of Lenin didn’t really bring him honour but a totally new personality and job. Since this mischief he tried to earn his living as a Free-Jazzer in circus cabinets, calling himself „Nepomuk Hororwitz”. Trained by a contortionist, he gained the artistry of folding up. In the end he was able to turn his body into the shape of a Vodka bottle. This ability finally helped him to escape in a glove box of a Sowjet – standard- truck a couple of years later. Shortly afterwards he opened up a barber shop in the south of Germany to cut the hair of 16 wanted members of the RAF. Since then, the hairstyle is known as the famous “Terrormatte”. Through Rudi Dutschke’s dad, an influential business man in the construction material sector, Richard caught the attention of carpet traders and OBI stores in the area of the Blackwood Forrest. They decided to sponsor his first job abroad – as personal DJ of an oil tycoon in the Emirates.

At this time it was said, that already 18.000 Middle Eastern Beauties have danced on his billion dollar carpets until their feet went sore. Richard Liapin, who is today specialized on creating animistic House – Ethnos as well as tribal – ritual cantos, has recently been seen in a conglomeration with the Afrilounge Boys.