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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 Tanya Traboulsi on April 9, 2013
By Tanya Traboulsi on 9 April 2013 in
BLOG
Photography from Irtijal 2013, our favorite festival for experimental music in the Middle East. Plus two comments by festival co-organizer and musician Sharif Sehnaoui.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Alexandre St-Onge, Alvise Seggi, Anthony Von Seck, Arab World, Balazs Pandi, Beirut, Dao, Dossier Arab World, Gert-Jan Prins, Irtijal Festival, Jim Quilty, Lebanon, Lukas Ligeti, Mazen Kerbaj, Miles, Omar Dewachi, Osman Arabi, Paed Conca, Piero Bittolo Bon, Rabih Beaini, Sam Shalabi, shalabi effect, Sharif Sehnaoui, Thomas Burkhalter, Tommaso Cappellato, Upperground Orchestra, Will Eizlini |
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 Ahmad Zatari on July 5, 2012
By Ahmad Zatari on 5 July 2012 in
STORIES
Using folk songs from Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, and Kuwait, Yasmine Hamdan’s self-titled new album revives the music of the region with an unheard of frankness and freshness.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged Ahmad Qaboor, Arab World, Beirut, Darine Hamze, Dossier Arab World, Elia Suleiman, In Kana Fouadi, Kwaidan Records, Laila Murad, Lebanon, Marc Codsi, Marc Collin, Mohammed Abdel Wahhab, Nouvelle Vague, Paris, Rima Khcheich, Soap Kills, Umaima al-Khalil, Ya Habibi Taala Lhaeni, Yasmine Hamdan, Zeid Hamdan |
By Torie Rose DeGhett on April 2, 2012
By Torie Rose DeGhett on 2 April 2012 in
VIDEO
The multimedia-webdocumentary «The song of Tahir square. Music at the heart of revolution» by Hussein Emara and Priscille Lafitte invites to dive in contrasting places of music in Cairo. An interactive approach.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Ahmad Fouad Negm, Ali Al-Haggar, Arab World, Arabian Knightz, As-Salam City, Cairo, Documentary Film, Dossier Arab World, Egypt, Electro-sha‘bi, Eskenderella, Fathy Salama, France24, Haitham Said, Hip Hop, Hosni Mubarak, Hussein Emara, MC Deeb, Priscille Lafitte, Ramy Essam, Revolution 2.0, Revolution Records, Tahir, Wael Ghonim, webdocumentary, Wellsbox Productions |
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 Miriam Gazzah on January 4, 2012
By Miriam Gazzah on 4 January 2012 in
STORIES
This is a story about the empowering force of (Moroccan) hip-hop. Screened on Thursday 12.1.2012 at the 3rd Norient Musikfilm Festival.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged 3. Norient Musikfilm Festival 2012, Arab World, Brown Fingaz, DJ Key, Documentary Film, Dossier Arab World, Fnaïre, H-Kayne, Hip Hop, I Love Hip-Hop in Morocco, Josh Asen, Marrakesh, MC Bigg, Morocco, Mot de Passe, Rap |
By Manuel Sánchez on December 19, 2011
By Manuel Sánchez on 19 December 2011 in
AUDIO
A new samples selection from the archives of the DJ Cinnamoon project.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Arab World, DJ Cinnamoon, Dossier Arab World, Dossier World Music 2.0, Middle East, mixtape, New Wave Dabké, Palestine, Popular Music, Syria |
By Norient on December 5, 2011
By Norient on 5 December 2011 in
BLOG
The 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.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Arab World, Beirut, Dossier Arab World, Katibe 5, Lumi, Malikah, Mashrou’ Leila, Outhere Records, Praed, Rayess Bek, Release, Scrambled Eggs, Soap Kills, The New Government, Zeid Hamdan, Ziyad Sahhab |
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 May 19, 2011
By Daniel J. Gilman on 19 May 2011 in
VIDEO
During the 2011 revolution, most Egyptian pop singers said nothing. Now they are back and praising the national martyrs in song. A PR gaffe or more?
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged 25 January 2011, Ahmed Basyoni, Amr Diab, Arab World, Aziz al-Shaf‘i, Baligh Hamdi, Cairo, Dossier Arab World, Egypt, Hamada Helal, Hany Shaker, Hosni Mubarak, Khaled Said, martyr, martyr pop, Mohamed Fouad, Ramy Gamal, Ramy Yusef, Revolution, Sally Zahran, Tamer Hosny |
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 Norient on February 13, 2011
By Norient on 13 February 2011 in
EVENTS
An Audio-Visual Performance about Music, Sound and Noise from the Arab World. By Norient. Book now!
Posted in EVENTS | Tagged Arab World, Beirut, Dossier Arab World, Experimental, Lebanon, Lecture, Performance, Sonic Traces, Sonic Traces: From the Arab World, Transdisziplinarität |
By Thomas Burkhalter on November 19, 2010
By Thomas Burkhalter on 19 November 2010 in
AUDIO
The Swiss-Italian musician and composer Paed Conca and Lebanese artist Raed Yassin have been working together since 2005 as Duo Praed. The two perform in Turnhalle Bern, this Wednesday, 21.11.2012.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Annihaya, Arab World, Beirut, Bern, Dossier Arab World, Dossier World Music 2.0, Free Improvisation, Globale Nischen, Lebanon, Mahmoud El Husseini, Paed Conca, Porta Chiusa, Praed, Raed Yassin, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Switzerland |
By DJ Ben i Sabbah on September 21, 2010
By DJ Ben i Sabbah on 21 September 2010 in
AUDIO
Transcendental soundscapes, ethnic music, jazz and experimental sounds between tradition and contemporary electronica. This time: Sounds from the Orient.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Badawi, Ceza, Dhafer Youssef, Dossier Arab World, Genetic Drugs, Hassan Hakmoun, Jah Wobble, John Berberian, Koch Schütz Studer, Muslimgauze, shalabi effect, Simon Shaheen, Smadj, Sussan Deyhim |
By Norient on September 18, 2010
By Thomas Burkhalter on 18 September 2010 in
STORIES
Reflections on the new multi-local musical Avant-Gardes of the 21st Century. An essay on the Lebanese musician Tarek Atoui, Luigi Russolo, Mazen Kerbaj and many artists more.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged 2006war, Ahmad Qaboor, Arab World, Avant-Garde, Beirut, Christine Sehnaoui, Cynthia Zaven, Dossier Arab World, Dossier World Music 2.0, Futurism, Globale Nischen, Iannis Xenakis, IRCAM, Khaled al-Habre, Lebanon, Luigi Russolo, Marcel Khalife, Mazen Kerbaj, Musique Concrète, Orientalism, Peter Brötzmann, Philemon Wehbe, Psychedelic Music, Raed Yassin, Scrambled Eggs, Sharif Sehnaoui, Tanya Traboulsi, Tarek Atoui, Violence, War, Xardas |
By Simon Grab on August 12, 2010
By Simon Grab on 12 August 2010 in
AUDIO
A Mash-Up Mix with Urban Sounds from the Arab World.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Adbak ma’a Aassi, Aks’ser, Ali ad-Deek, Anwar Iskander, Arab World, Beirut, Cairo, Charbel Haber, Checkpoint 303, Clotaire K, DAM, Dossier Arab World, Hanoueh, Kita Ayoun, La Chambre, Lumi, Majeed ar-Ramah, Munma, New Wave Dabké, Omar Souleyman, Rabih al-Asmar, Ramallah Underground, Rayess Bek, RGB, Scrambled Eggs, Shift Z, Soap Kills, The New Government, Urban Music, Whitetrashbubblegum, Zeid Hamdan |
By Thomas Burkhalter on August 28, 2009
By Thomas Burkhalter and Simon Grab on 28 August 2009 in
AUDIO
Musicians from Beirut talk about their sonic memories from the Lebanese Civil War (1975 – 1990) and the 2006 war between Israel and Hizbullah.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Amal, Arab World, Charbel Haber, Cyrille Najjar, Death Metal, Dossier Arab World, Garo Gdanian, Hizbullah, Israel, Lebanese Forces, Lebanon, Mazen Kerbaj, Noise, Propaganda, Raed Yassin, Sonic Memory, The Force, Trauma, Violence, War, Weeping Willow |
By Thomas Burkhalter on July 31, 2006
By Thomas Burkhalter on 31 July 2006 in
STORIES
“Everyone longs to return to his childhood, and my childhood simply took place during the war”, says Mazen Kerbaj, a pioneer of free improvised music in Beirut. Thomas Burkhalter takes a look at how years of war have influenced the sound of Lebanese music.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged 2006war, Beirut, Dossier Arab World, Joelle Khoury, Lebanon, Mazen Kerbaj, Raed Yassin, War, Weeping Willow |
By Layla Al-Zubaidi on July 20, 2006
By Layla Al-Zubaidi on 20 July 2006 in
STORIES
From June 1 to 4 2006, the 8th edition of the Boulevard de Jeunes Musiciens took place in Casablanca, featuring acts ranging from rap/hip-hop, to rock/metal, and fusion. A report by Layla Al-Zubaidi and Réda Zine.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged Africa, Arab World, Boulevard de Jeunes Musiciens, Casablanca, Censorship, Darga, Dossier Arab World, H-Kayne, Haoussa, Hoba Hoba Spirit, Karim Ziad, Mobydick, Morocco, Northern Africa, Satanism, Total Eclypse, Westernization |
