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By Thomas Burkhalter on May 3, 2013
By Thomas Burkhalter on 3 May 2013 in
VIDEO
Pictures, videos and tracks from a recent fieldtrip to Cairo – including Mahragan, Electronica, Sound Art, Egyptronica, Experimental Music …
Posted in VIDEO, XFEATURED | Tagged 100copies, Ahmed Basiony, Arab World, Bosaina, Cairo, Cairo Liberation Front, Dossier Arab World, Dossier World Music 2.0, Egypt, EKA3, Electro-sha‘bi, Hussein El-Sherbini, Islam Chipsy, Ismael Hosny, Maghragan, Mahmoud Refat, Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca, MC Amin, Middle East, Mohammed Antar, Nadia Mounier, Ola Saad, Quit Together, Sadat, sha'bi, Sherine Amr, Society for Arab Music Research, Tamer Abu Ghazaleh, Wetrobots, Yara Mekawei, Zuli |
By Thomas Burkhalter on February 28, 2013
By Thomas Burkhalter on 28 February 2013 in
AUDIO
Peter Doolan from the MP3-Blog monrakplengthai collects amazing audio cassettes from Thailand. Enjoy these tracks and a short podcast.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Chris Menist, Dao Bandon, Dust-to-Digital, Khana Wang Te, Luk Thung- Classic & Obscure 78s from the Thai Countryside, Maft Sai, Mitt Mueangmaen, monrakplengthai, MP3 blogs, Phloen Phromdaen, Phraiwan Lukphet, Suraphon Sombatcharoen, Thailand |
By Thomas Burkhalter on February 19, 2013
By Thomas Burkhalter on 19 February 2013 in
AUDIO
Jonathan Ward runs the blog «Excavated Shellac», and his 4-CD Box «Opika Pende – Africa At 78 RPM» is nominee for a Grammy for best historical album of 2012. A Podcast.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged 78rpm, Africa, blogging, collectors, Dust-to-Digital, Ethnomusicology, Excavated Shellac, Flying Jazz Queens, Grupo da Guarda Velha, Jonathan Ward, Kiko Kids, Kosta Šarćanski-Koča, MP3 blogs, O.S. Africa Jazz Onema Pascal, Opika Pende, Opika Pende – Africa At 78 RPM, rare recordings, schellac, Sekinomu, Wilson Makawa and his Guitar |
By Thomas Burkhalter on February 12, 2013
By Thomas Burkhalter on 12 February 2013 in
AUDIO
Christopher Kirkley offers on his blog Sahelsounds autotuned DIY-pop and unplugged music from Northern Mali. A podcast.
Posted in AUDIO, XFEATURED | Tagged Bamako, Blues, Christopher Kirkley, desert, Kidal, MP3 blogs, Sahara, Sahel, Sahelsounds, tuareg |
By Thomas Burkhalter on December 18, 2012
By Thomas Burkhalter on 18 December 2012 in
ACADEMIC
This book offers the first in-depth study of experimental and popular music in Beirut.
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged Abu Arab, Aks’ser, Arab World, Assy Rahbani, Ayat, Beirut, Bellydance, Charbel Haber, Charbel Rouhana, Civil War, Cynthia Zaven, digitalization, Dossier Arab World, Dossier World Music 2.0, Elias Rahbani, ethnography, Ethnomusicology, Exoticism, Fairuz, Garo Gdanian, Ghada Shbeir, globalization, Hizbullah, Joelle Khoury, Katibe 5, Khaled al-Habre, Lebanese Forces, Lebanon, Mahmoud Refat, Mahmoud Turkmani, Mansour Rahbani, Marc Codsi, Marcel Khalife, Mashrou’ Leila, Mazen Kerbaj, Munma, Muslimgauze, Norient, Paed Conca, Popular Music Studies, Praed, Propaganda, Psychedelic Music, Raed Yassin, Rayess Bek, Raymond Azoury, Ruptured Sessions, Sabah, Scrambled Eggs, Sharif Sehnaoui, Soap Kills, Tarab, Tarek Atoui, The Arcane, The Kordz, The New Government, The Sea-ders, Thomas Burkhalter, Toufic Succar, Trauma, Weeping Willow, World Music 2.0, Yasmine Hamdan, Zad Moultaka, Zeid Hamdan, Ziad Sahhab, Ziyad Rahbani, Ziyad Sahhab |
By Thomas Burkhalter on October 21, 2012
By Thomas Burkhalter on 21 October 2012 in
BLOG
Duboka Ilegala (“Deep Illegal”) perform trash-hop, a genre that mixes low and dark, live played trip-hop, with symbols and markers of Serbian trash-turbo culture.
Posted in BLOG, XFEATURED | Tagged Andrija Pavlović, Belgrade, Biftek Zdravkovic, Duboka Ilegala, Nebojsa Despotovic, Parody, Serbia, ShazaLaKazoo, SKC Radio, Sobot Suhi, Studio Shtayga, Trash, Trash Hop, Turbo Folk |
By Thomas Burkhalter on September 17, 2012
By Thomas Burkhalter on 17 September 2012 in
BLOG
Producer and DJ Faisal M Khan started the Facebook-organized platform «Dhaka Electronica Scene». In the interview he and his musical combatants are talking about the fast-growing network and the search for an identity of a young scene.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Asia, Asian electronica, Asian Underground, Bangladesh, Bhangra, Buy More Incense, DES, Dhaka, Dhaka Electronica Scene, Explorations, Fahad Zaman, Faisal M Khan, Farzan Hassan, India, Indian Beat music, Live Square, Omer Nashaad, SAE College, Sathil Rahman, Sunburn Festival, The ‘B’ Regiment, Vru Patel, Zayed Hassan |
By Thomas Burkhalter on August 24, 2012
By Thomas Burkhalter and Simon Grab on 24 August 2012 in
AUDIO
Dave Phillips is a main agent of the strong Swiss noise scene. We met him for coffee in Zurich. – And we look forward to perform with him at Zürcher Theaterspektakel on Friday 31.8.2012.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Agnieszka Zwara, Béla Bartók, Daniel Löwenbrück, Dave Phillips, Experimental, Fear of God, fieldrecordings, G*Park, György Ligeti, Joke Lanz, Krzysztof Penderecki, Marc Zeier, Noise, Perry Como, psycho-acoustics, Raionbashi, Randy Yau, Rudolf eb.er, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Salomé Sagüillo, Schimpfluch, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Sudden Infant, Switzerland, Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, voice, Wendy Carlos, Zurich |
By Thomas Burkhalter on May 30, 2012
By Thomas Burkhalter and Simon Grab on 30 May 2012 in
AUDIO
“The National Fanfare of Kadebostany” is one of various formations from the French-speaking part of Switzerland that currently experiment fresh and boldly with eastern European, Asian and African sounds and rhythms.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Belarus, Geneva, Kadebostan, National Fanfare of Kadebostany, Rational Diet, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Swiss Music, Switzerland, The National Fanfare of Kadebostany, Thementage2012 |
By Thomas Burkhalter on May 18, 2012
By Thomas Burkhalter, Simon Grab, and Michael Spahr on 18 May 2012 in
AUDIO
(*) Die Genfer Musikerin Kate Wax ist in Europa und Japan bekannter als in der Schweiz. Mit «Dust Collision» ist ihr ein eigenständiges Konzeptalbum gelungen. Norient hat sie vor einem Konzert in Bern getroffen.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Aisha Devi Enz, Border Community, Electronic, Electronic Music, Geneva, James Holden, Kate Wax, Niels Wehrspann, Radio RaBe, Raphaël Rodriguez, Schönherwehrs, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Switzerland, Tibet, «Dust Collision» |
By Thomas Burkhalter on May 12, 2012
By Thomas Burkhalter and Simon Grab on 12 May 2012 in
AUDIO
Rapper La Gale is half Swiss and half Lebanese. In our Norient Podcast she talks about her political message and her first CD.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Arab World, Christian Pahud, Diaspora, Globale Nischen, Karine Guignard, La Gale, Larytta, Lausanne, Lebanon, Rap, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland |
By Thomas Burkhalter on April 19, 2012
By Thomas Burkhalter on 19 April 2012 in
STORIES
Grey Filastine survives from performing, runs a mini cap company, gave us great links to music in Indonesia, and recently released his new album £00T. We reached him via E-mail.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged Amélie Bouard, Dossier World Music 2.0, Filastine, Grey Filastine, Homicide, Indonesia, Jalan Surabaya, Ourrad Rabah, Post World Industries, Taring Padi, World Music 2.0, Wukir, Yes No Wave Music, £00T |
By Thomas Burkhalter on March 12, 2012
By Thomas Burkhalter on 12 March 2012 in
VIDEO
A new electro/rap album from Beirut inspired me to continue clicking through the World Wide Web. Within transnational Lebanese networks I found great, crazy, funny, strange and sometimes also worrying videos, tracks, as well as a book.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Ashekman, Beirut, Busta Rhymes, Cham3oun, Cyber-Mix, Dossier Arab World, El Rass, I-Voice, Ice Cube, Islam, KVM, Lazzy Lung, Lebanon, Manifest One, Mashrou’ Leila, Mazen el Sayed, Michelle & Noel Keserwany, Munma, Oky Doky, Ramcess L'Hamourabi, Rap, Safar Barlik, Sandmoon, Scrambled Eggs, Talib Kweli, Tania Saleh, The Incompetents, World Music 2.0, Zeid and the Wings, Zeid Hamdan |
By Thomas Burkhalter on January 20, 2012
By Thomas Burkhalter and Simon Grab on 20 January 2012 in
AUDIO
The singer and musician Joy Frempong associates lively Avant-pop, odd electronica, abstract hip-hop, futuristic soul, Dadaistic world music and Debussy-esque classical music.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Filewile, Ghana, Globale Nischen, Joy Frempong, Koch Schütz Studer, Lauschangriff, Oy, Phall Fatale, Sampling, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Switzerland |
By Thomas Burkhalter on January 11, 2012
By Thomas Burkhalter on 11 January 2012 in
EVENTS
2011 // An audio-visual lecture by Thomas Burkhalter. Book Now!
Posted in EVENTS | Tagged Lecture |
By Thomas Burkhalter on December 7, 2011
By Thomas Burkhalter and Simon Grab on 7 December 2011 in
AUDIO
When listening to Superterz, free improvisation, beats and cuts, noise storms and dissonant soundscapes collide wildly. The music is barely placeable. Ravi and Marcel Vaid from the Zurich long-term collective tell Norient why.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Experimental, Free Improvisation, Marcel Vaid, Ravi Vaid, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Sophie Hunger, Superterz, Switzerland |
By Thomas Burkhalter on November 7, 2011
By Simon Grab and Thomas Burkhalter on 7 November 2011 in
AUDIO
Simon Berz practices sonic archaeology and more. The promiscuous drummer and sound artist from Zurich fiddles about with everyday objects in the wonderful world of acoustic noise.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Free Improvisation, Noise, Simon Berz, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Swiss Music, Switzerland |
By Thomas Burkhalter on October 21, 2011
By Thomas Burkhalter on 21 October 2011 in
BLOG
“The National Fanfare of Kadebostany” is one of various formations from the French-speaking part of Switzerland that currently experiment fresh and boldly with eastern European, Asian and African sounds and rhythms.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Belarus, Geneva, Joy Frempong, Kadebostan, Mental Groove Records, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Switzerland, The National Fanfare of Kadebostany, Thementage2012, World Music 2.0 |
By Thomas Burkhalter on October 14, 2011
By Michael Spahr and Thomas Burkhalter on 14 October 2011 in
AUDIO
Joke Lanz alias Sudden Infant arouses with dark-poetic, childish-dadaistic and very physical noise-sounds. Recently a book was published about him.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Dave Phillips, Joke Lanz, Marhaug Forlag, Noise, Punk, Schimpfluch, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Sudden Infant, Switzerland |
By Thomas Burkhalter on August 8, 2011
By Thomas Burkhalter and Michael Spahr on 8 August 2011 in
AUDIO
The Imperial Tiger Orchestra from Geneva play Ethiopian music from the golden 1970s. «We aim to re-enact this music perfectly», reveal Raphaël Anker and Cyril Moulas in the interview.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Africa, Bethlehem Dagnachew, Diaspora, Ethiopia, Ethiopiques, Geneva, Getatchew Mekurya, Globale Nischen, Imperial Tiger Orchestra, Krar, Raphaël Anker, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Switzerland, The Ex |
By Thomas Burkhalter on June 22, 2011
By Thomas Burkhalter and Michael Spahr on 22 June 2011 in
VIDEO
Impressions from the norient field trip to the Eidgenössisches Jodlerfest in Interlaken, Switzerland’s biggest yodeling event.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Eidgenössisches Jodlerfest, Interlaken, Jodeln, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Swiss Music, Switzerland, Volksmusik, Yodeling |
By Thomas Burkhalter on May 2, 2011
By Michael Spahr and Thomas Burkhalter on 2 May 2011 in
AUDIO
Reverend Beat-Man is a mad trash rock’n’roll artist and owner of the label Voodoo Rhythm Records. Norient visited him on their quest for sonic traces in Switzerland.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged D.I.Y., Punk, Reverend Beat-Man, Rock Music, Round Table Knights, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Swiss Music, Switzerland, Voodoo Rhythm |
By Thomas Burkhalter on April 11, 2011
By Thomas Burkhalter on 11 April 2011 in
AUDIO
Charles Hirschkind, author of the book “The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics”, talks about Cassette Sermons, YouTube-Clips and the Value of Listening in Egypt.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Abdul Basit Abd us-Samad, Arab World, Charles Hirschkind, Dossier Arab World, Egypt, Global Prayers, Imad Rami, Islam, Seth Ayyaz, Soundscape |
By Thomas Burkhalter on March 14, 2011
By Thomas Burkhalter on 14 March 2011 in
EVENTS
27.6-1.7.2011 // Multiple Modernities between Pop and Avant-Garde – Plenary Speech at IASPM Conference in South Africa.
Posted in EVENTS | Tagged Lecture |
By Thomas Burkhalter on February 25, 2011
By Thomas Burkhalter on 25 February 2011 in
AUDIO
Yang Jing performed with her pipa instrument in concerts around the globe. Today, she lives in Switzerland. In this podcast she speaks about the differences of being a musician in China or in Switzerland.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged China, Diaspora, Globale Nischen, Pipa, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Swiss Music, Yang Jing |
