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Lusophonic Beats in Berlin
BLOGThe two day festival “Lusotronics“ in Berlin celebrates the digital, urban music lifestyles of the four main countries of the Portugese speaking world: Angola, Brasil, Mozambique and Portugal. Not to be missed!
Mammane and his Electronic Organ
BLOG(*) Mammane Sanni Abdoulaye played the possibly first synth organ in Niger and recorded his only album in 1978. Christopher Kirkley from Sahelsounds not only found one of the rare copies in an archive in Niamey, he also found Mammane himself.
Festival of Experimental Music in Lebanon
BLOGPhotography from Irtijal 2013, our favorite festival for experimental music in the Middle East. Plus two comments by festival co-organizer and musician Sharif Sehnaoui.
Eclectic Dance Music from Kenya
BLOGKenyan musician Bamzigi was flying ahead of the current electronic dance music craze from South Africa and Angola. However, his eclectic mix Mizuka resonates more abroad than in Kenya where he is not invited for performances.
Singing history in Colombia
BLOGLes Voy a Contar la Historia is a sonorous and audiovisual compilation of the historical memory of the farmer community of Las Pavas, Colombia – sung and told by its main characters.
Cumbia in Space
BLOGTwo Australians send Cumbia to the moon and back. New album and new video clip by the Cumbia Cosmonauts.
Trash-Hop from Belgrade
BLOGDuboka 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.
Between crisis and creative escapism
BLOGIt was almost 17 years ago, when techno and electronic music arrived in Athens. Many years in a row, «the new genre» and contemporary subculture was shaking the night life of Athens, where until today there is always a desire for a creative escapism.
Unwrapping Elvis Presley
BLOG(*) Fans celebrate the unwrapping of the new Elvis Presley box “A Boy From Tupelo” on YouTube.
Cast-netting for Bangladeshi Electronica
BLOGProducer 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.
(*) Rapping the norient
BLOGRap is perhaps the most immediate and powerful way to rebell and voice views on life. In part four of norient’s thematic dossiers we face different rap styles from the arab world over Switzerland to South Africa. Word up!
Queering the norient
BLOG(*) In part three of norient’s thematic dossiers we have a look on queer music movements, we listen to musicians who broach the issue of queerness and follow shrill drag-performances.
A journey through noriental Soundscapes
BLOGIn the second selection of our thematic dossiers, norient sensitises your ears for different soundscapes. The individual acoustic environments of Lagos, the Amazonas-forest or Berlin are worth to be listened closely.
Dance through the norient
BLOGThe next four wednesdays norient presents you a selection of our thematic dossiers. This week we have a look on old and new dance styles from all over the world: from fast Juke-steps from Chicago or copulative daggering to ghanian Azonto-moves.
Spoek Mathambo’s eclectic delirium
BLOGOn the album “Father Creeper” club-icon Spoek Mathambo from Jo’burg upgrades his unique electro-style with international features. The self-proclaimed “Prince of Townchip Tech” talks about his influences – in a quite serious presentation.
Garlic instead of riot
BLOGSpeech Debelle just released her second album “Freedom of Speech”, where she comment the global oil crisis or the London riots of 2011. In the interview with norient the English-Jamaican rapper has less appetite for counsciousness.
Words like hails of bullets
BLOGThe song “Shock” by French-Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux became the soundtrack of the Chilean student movement. The title of her newly released album “la bala” lives up to its promise of powerfulness.
Beginner’s Guide to Scandinavia – Review
BLOGScandinavia evokes a wide range of connotations. For some these include breathtaking landscapes and a life close to nature, however for others these connotations include high taxes, a nanny state and despite expensive alcohol prices alcohol abuse. A CD review.
Criticising the Syrian Regime with Finger Puppets
BLOGDaring young Syrian filmmakers, toiling in anonymity in a Damascus basement, have crafted an award-winning film critiquing with bold humor the brutal repression occurring around them.
Eastern Turkestan Soundscapes: The Kink Gong Project
BLOGLaurent Jeanneau recorded performances from local musicians in the Northern China region Xinjiang, subjected them to electronic transformations and released a LP.
Swiss Music Clips 2012
BLOGThe pop music festival m4music organised by Migros Cultural Per Cent is presenting the m4music selection of best Swiss music clips.
Festival 2012: Norizons are expanded
BLOGWith the FOKN Bois from Ghana, the 3rd Norient Music Film Festival came to a close on 15.1.2012. An overall success says Norient. The 4th Norient Music Film Festival is going to take place from 10.1. – 13.1.2013.
Golden Beirut-New Sounds from Lebanon
BLOGThe first CD release by norient and Outhere Records focuses on a young generation of musicians from Beirut that is tired of war, fed up with politics, sick of religious madness, and angry about Euro-American exoticism.
Shuar Sounds from Ecuador
BLOGNews from the Ecuadorian rainforest where Reggaeton, Cumbia and HipHop became more successful than the local Shuar Music.
The goat bleats for no reason
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.
