In 1965, the 70-year-old British writer Robert Graves saw his Mediterranean refuge threatened. He had discovered it in 1929 thanks to his friend, the American poet Gertrude Stein, who had lived in the Palma neighborhood of El Terreno between 1915 and 1916. "If you can stand it, Mallorca is paradise," she had told him. The chosen place was Deià, a small fishing village in the Tramuntana mountains, with about 400 inhabitants. At 36, the famous author of I, Claudius (1934) published Majorca observedwhich in Spanish would be translated as Why do I live in Mallorca? It was a collection of articles with a distinctly elegiac tone. It formed part of a series on the impressions of various English writers living abroad. The Palma-born philologist Eduard Moyà is the Catalan translator of some of the Londoner's poems. "He," he asserts, "was deeply concerned about the consequences of the boom tourist on an island where he had found the happy Arcadia of his admired classics."

The Mallorcan singer-songwriter Julia Colom (Valldemosa, 1997) presents Paradise, her second album, which will be released on October 31st. The new work focuses on a sound free of labels, where pop, electronica and folk coexist with "a poetic and emotional force that marks a step forward in her career." After the impact of Miramar, his debut album, with ParadiseColom opens the doors to his "most intimate universe" and reflects on "identity, the future, and doubt as a creative driving force." The concept of paradise takes on a double meaning: "as an ideal we pursue and as an emotional landscape we feel as home," explained sources from the record label.