NORIENT BOOK ON MUSIC AND GLOBALIZATION
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Asia
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.
Asima, her Pimp and a Melancholic Boss
ACADEMICAfter twenty years of frustration and marginality, Zuoxiao Zuzhou recently reinvented himself as trickster and became a cult-hero.
Soundtrack for a Japanese Apocalypse
VIDEOA selection of videos featuring the apocalyptic sound of Japanese noise artist Merzbow.
Ruptured Sessions with C-Drik Fermont
AUDIOC-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.
Buy More Incense
VIDEOBuy More Incense – a norient documentary film about British Asian musicians – is online and can be watched for free…!
Zeni Geva – Alive and Rising
AUDIOThe mad Japanese Noise Rock Metal combo is definitely alive and rising as the title of their 2010 live release is suggesting.
Rock Music in China
STORIESFuelled by the new sounds that entered China’s illegal doorways, and driven by a desire to move beyond the stereotypical hard rock idiom, new bands started to experiment with different sounds. Today, sounds ranging from hardcore punk to deep house can be heard from Urumqi to Beijing. Let’s get dakou’ed!
Shotguns and Munaqqabes along the Arabian Sea
STORIESPakistan’s corrupt and violent rulers did produce one good thing, albeit inadvertently: Pakistani rock. Mark Levine offers a chapter of his book «Heavy Metal Islam» to norient.
Freestyle in Azerbaijan
STORIESNew and Re-emerged Pop Styles Converge in Baku: From Mugham singer Alim Qasimov to the rappers Dayirman.
