By Daniel Künzler on March 19, 2013
By Daniel Künzler on 19 March 2013 in
BLOG
Kenyan 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.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged 3050 Muzik, Africa, Bamzigi, Global Ghettotech, Harrison Munio, Mizuka, Mombasa, Necessary Noize, Transnationalism, Wawesh, World Music 2.0 |
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 Norient on January 9, 2013
By Norient on 9 January 2013 in
ACADEMIC
The first Norient book discusses contemporary movements and trends within transnational music scenes between Europe, Africa, Latin-America, Asia and the USA.
Posted in ACADEMIC, XFEATURED | Tagged 2012, Africa, Afrofunk, Ali Al Deek, Alois Lüönd, Alpentöne, Ana Tijoux, Anja Brunner, Aubrey Edwards, Barbara Mürdter, Beirut, Ben Harbert, Benedikt Sartorius, Bikutsi, Cameroon, Cumbia, daggering, dance, David Rovics, Die Antwoord, DJ Marcelle, Dossier World Music 2.0, Duboka Ilegala, Ethnomusicology, Field Notes, Filastine, Flurina Rothenberger, FOKN Bois, Free Pussy, Ghana, globalization, Grey Filastine, grime, Highlife, Hip Hop, Hiplife, Hyperpop, Indonesia, Irtijal Festival, Jamaica, Jay Retludge, Jeremy Wallach, Joahnnes Rühl, Julio Mendivil, Kadebostany, Karin Scheidegger, Kink Gong, Laurent Jeannau, London Riots 2011, Marcel Ötiker, Mario Venzago, Milena Krstic, Moses Iten, Mosibuebä, Musiqa Sha'biyya, National Fanfare of Kadebostany, Neo-Tropicália, Neue Volksmusik, New Orleans, New Wave Cumbia, New Wave Dabké, Norient012, Occupy, Outhere Records, Perreo, Philipp Rhensius, Popular Music Studies, Portia Seddon, Pussy Riot, record digging, Refpolk, Retromania, Sampling, Schweiz, Selina Novak, Senegal, Shayna Silverstein, Shonegrad O'Connor, Sissy Bounce, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Sookee, Stefan Franzen, Stubete am See, Syria, Tanya Traboulsy, Tanz dich frei, Taraf de Haïdouks, Theresa Beyer, Thomas Burkhalter, Thomas Haferlach, Togo, Traversion, Voodoohop, Vuvuzela, Wayne Marshall, Weltmusik, Weltmusik 2.0, Wildlife, Woody Guthrie, World Music 2.0 |
By Sebastian Prothmann on October 9, 2012
By Sebastian Prothmann and Sandy Haessner on 9 October 2012 in
STORIES
(*) Rapper in Senegal setzen auf gesellschaftskritische Rhymes und Beats: hart, anklagend und subversiv. Ein Bericht aus den Vororten Dakars.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged 100% Galsen, Africa, Amadou Barry, Didier Awadi, Duggy Tee (PBS), Ghetto Culture, Griot, Ismaël Lô, Mbalax, Pikine, Positive Black Soul, Rap, Rap Galsen, Senegal, Youssou N’Dour |
By Norient on September 21, 2012
By Norient on 21 September 2012 in
VIDEO
Via fast plane YouTube Norient travels criss cross the rapping african continent. We start with fast Mbira-accompagnied flows from Kinshasa and end with meta-discourses and rap-philosophies from Burkina Faso.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Africa, Afrobeat, Angola, Bawuta kin Bo tia K, Bravo Papa, Burkina Faso, Edy Sex, FOKN Bois, Ghana, HipHop, Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang, Kenya, Kinshasa, Muthoni The Drummer Queen, Obscur Jaffar, Rap, Sierra Leone, Southafrica, The Busy Twist, Titica, Tokollo "Magesh", Tuesday Born |
By Tomasz Jurecki on August 10, 2012
By Tomasz Jurecki on 10 August 2012 in
VIDEO
(*) We are always on the lookout for some vintage music gold on our social networks, scouting youtube endlesly for retro music teasty treats.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Africa, Al'mambo Al'sudani, Cumbia, digging-youtube, Europe, Los Wemblers de Iquitos, Mali, Orchestre Kanaga de Mopti, Peru, Retro, Sudan, Titanic, turntapeism, vintage, Vinyl |
By Anja Brunner on May 23, 2012
By Anja Brunner on 23 May 2012 in
ACADEMIC
Encountering Cameroonian Pop Music in Yaoundé and the Challenge of Similarity. // In this paper, Bikutsi pop is discussed within the framework of collective “aesthetic cosmopolitanism” as proposed by Motti Regev.
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged aesthetic cosmopolitanism, Africa, Beti, Bikutsi, Cameroon, cosmopolitanism, K-Tino, Lady Ponce, Majoie, Majoie Ayi, Motti Regev, naoj v1, norient academic online journal, World Music |
By Florian Carl on May 23, 2012
By Florian Carl on 23 May 2012 in
ACADEMIC
Ghanaian Gospel Music, Born-Again Christianity, and the Nonconformity of the Ethnographer. // This discussion of the gospel phenomenon in Ghana will be framed by a critical reflection on ethnomusicological methodology.
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged Africa, Christianity, ethnography, Ghana, gospel, gospel highlife, Highlife, naoj v1, norient academic online journal, Pentecostal, Popular Music |
By Eric Mandel on February 15, 2012
By Eric Mandel on 15 February 2012 in
STORIES
Buraka Som Sistema – J-Wow (João Barbosa), DJ Riot (Rui Pité), Kalaf Ângelo, Andro Carvalho and newest member Blaya are in the world of Kuduro key players even though they are – in a way – outsiders, both geographically and sound-wise. An Interview.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged Africa, African Boy, Angola, Buraka Som Sistema, CSS, Deize Tigrona, Diplo, Dossier World Music 2.0, interview, kizomba, Komba, kuduro, Luanda, M.I.A, MC Kalaf Ângelo, Portugal, Rui Pité, World Music 2.0 |
By Norient on January 14, 2012
By Norient on 14 January 2012 in
VIDEO
The FOKN Bois are documenting their adventures in a Swiss tour videoblog. The Rappers from Ghana have been invited to Switzerland by Norient for the 3. Norient Musikfilm Festival. They performed in Nyon, Zurich and Bern.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged 3. Norient Musikfilm Festival 2012, Africa, Afro Pop Live, bee-flat, Documentary Film, Europe, Filewile, FOKN Bois, Ghana, La Parenthèse, M3nsa, Norient, Pidgen, PROGR Bern, Switzerland, Turnhalle, Wanlov The Kubolor |
By Norient on November 21, 2011
By Norient on 21 November 2011 in
ACADEMIC
The Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology (PRE) changed its name to Ethnomusicology Review (EMR). The articles are online. Read this in-depth study of Congotronics bands like Konono No 1.
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged Africa, Congo, Congotronics, Dossier World Music 2.0, EMR, Ethnomusicology Review, UCLA, World Music 2.0 |
By Norient on October 19, 2011
By Norient on 19 October 2011 in
BLOG
Together Liberia, a platform for Liberian storytellers, tells the story of Hip-Co, a not yet well-known genre.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Africa, Dossier World Music 2.0, hip-co, hipco, Liberia, Nasseman, Together Liberia, War |
By Norient on September 28, 2011
By Norient on 28 September 2011 in
BLOG
A compilation of music collected from memory cards of cellular phones in the Saharan desert. And it’s coming to vinyl.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Abidjan, Africa, Algier, Arab World, Bamako, cellphones, Dossier Arab World, Northern Africa, Sahara |
By Norient on September 16, 2011
By Moses Iten on 16 September 2011 in
AUDIO
Saca La Mois DJ from Melbourne sent us his latest Mixtape.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged 30IPS, Africa, Al Quetz, Bass Clef Vs Kasai Allstars, Buraka Som Sistema, Congopunq, Cumbia Cosmonauts, Global Ghettotech, Killamu, Konono No1, Ku Bo, Noite Dia, Radioclit, Saca La Mois, Tshetsha Boys |
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 Norient on July 1, 2011
By Norient on 1 July 2011 in
VIDEO
Weird computer music, hyperspeed dancing, clown costumes, youtube, serendipitous ringtones. Dutty Artz met the producers in South Africa.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Africa, Dossier South Africa, Global Ghettotech, Shangaan, Shangaan Electro, South Africa, World Music 2.0 |
By Norient on June 6, 2011
By Stefanie Alisch and Nadine Siegert on 6 June 2011 in
ACADEMIC
This article explores the role of Kuduro, the popular Angolan electronic music and dance style in the process of updating the national Angolan identity called angolanidade to the conditions of the new millennium.
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged Africa, Agostinho Neto, Angola, Angolanidade, António Ole, Batida, Brazil, Buraka Som Sistema, carnival, dance, DJ Mpula, DJ Sebem, Dog Murras, Dossier World Music 2.0, Frédéric Galliano, Gerhard Kubik, Global Ghettotech, Globale Nischen, Ikonoklasta, Jorge António, Killamu, kizomba, kuduro, Kuduro - Fogo no Museke, Kwame Appiah, Les Princes de Kuduro, Lisbon, M.I.A, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Marissa Moorman, Muana Po, Ngola Ritmos, O ritmo do Ngola Ritmos, Portugal, Puto Prata, Radio Fazuma, Rainha Ginga, semba, Tony Amado, Viriato da Cruz, World Music 2.0 |
By Ziad Nawfal on January 23, 2011
By Ziad Nawfal on 23 January 2011 in
AUDIO
C-Drik Fermont works between musique concrète, electro-acoustic music and noise. Plus he writes about experimental music in Africa and Asia. His latest trip brought him to Beirut, where he was interviewed for Ruptured Sessions.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Africa, Annette Vande Gorne, archive, Asia, Belgium, C-drík, Experimental, Le performantiel noise, Noise, Ruptured Sessions, Sébastien Biset, Syrphe, Tanya Traboulsi |
By Norient on October 29, 2010
By Norient on 29 October 2010 in
AUDIO
Two guys from Munich bring us the latest sounds from the urban centres of Africa. Listen to their latest mixtape!
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Africa, Dala Dala Soundz, Dossier World Music 2.0, Global Ghettotech, Outhere Records, World Music 2.0 |
By Norient on October 28, 2010
By Werner Graebner on 28 October 2010 in
STORIES
Jagwa Music: A bricolage of old-style Zaramo drums; a battered stool beaten with sticks; a small Casio hand organ; and singers belting out songs on how to survive in the urban maze of Dar es Salaam.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged Africa, bricolage, Casio, Dar es Salaam, Dossier World Music 2.0, dumbak, Global Ghettotech, globalization, Jagwa, kuduro, lo-fi, Mchiriku, misondo, nzumari, Sauti ya Busara Festival, taarab, Tanzania, World Music 2.0 |
By Norient on October 6, 2010
By Norient on 6 October 2010 in
AUDIO
DJ Tillup has produced a Mix for the Democratic Republic of Tam Tam Motherland. Become a member of this great republic!
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Africa, Cumbia, Cumbia Electrónica, Global Ghettotech, kuduro, reggaeton, Urban Music, World Music 2.0 |
By Jasper Walgrave on September 30, 2010
By Jasper Walgrave on 30 September 2010 in
VIDEO
A Documentary Film about the Angolan capital Luanda. The film captures its madness, its music, and people. See filmaker DJ Mpula live this Friday 1.10.2010 at Motherland, Zurich.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged 1. Norient Musikfilm Festival 2010, Africa, Angola, Batida, DJ Mpula, Documentary Film, kuduro, Luanda |
By Keith Kahn-Harris on July 29, 2010
By Keith Kahn-Harris on 29 July 2010 in
STORIES
The claw of heavy rock reaches out to the most metal-hostile place on earth: Sub-Saharan Africa.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged Africa, Black Sabbath, Botswana, Groinchurch, Infertile Surrogacy, Metal, Neblina, South Africa, Wrust |
By Norient on June 30, 2010
By Norient on 30 June 2010 in
AUDIO
Check out this awesome blog Awesome Tapes from Africa from the Brooklyn based digger and hunter Brian Shimkovitz.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Africa, Cassettes, Guinea, Hamid Al Mou, Ibro Diabate, Penny Penny, South Africa |
By Georg Milz on June 4, 2010
By Georg Milz on 4 June 2010 in
VIDEO
Outhere Records publishes Urban Music from South Africa.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Africa, Dossier South Africa, House, South Africa, Urban Music |
