Pakistan

Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam

By Wendy Hsu on December 19, 2010

By Wendy Hsu on 19 December 2010 in VIDEO

Thursday 13.1.2011. While The Kominas try to start a punk scene in Lahore, the white-convert writer Michael Muhammad Knight discusses his imagination of a punk-inspired radical Islam. A great documentary film.

Posted in VIDEO | Tagged 2. Norient Musikfilm Festival, Irony, Islam, Lahore, Michael Muhammad Knight, Pakistan, Punk, religion, satire, Taqwacore, The Kominas, USA | 4 Responses

Buy More Incense

By Michael Spahr on September 30, 2010

By Michael Spahr and Thomas Burkhalter on 30 September 2010 in VIDEO

Buy More Incense – a norient documentary film about British Asian musicians – is online and can be watched for free…!

Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Aki Nawaz, Asia, Asian Underground, Bangladesh, Bangra, Birmingham, Bobby Friction, Buy More Incense, DCS, DJ Ritu, Documentary Film, Europe, Fun'da'mental, India, Johnny Kalsi, Kuljit Bhamra, London, Nation Records, Nitin Sawhney, Outcaste Records, Pakistan, UK | 4 Responses

Shotguns and Munaqqabes along the Arabian Sea

By Norient on June 25, 2009

By Mark LeVine on 25 June 2009 in STORIES

Pakistan’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.

Posted in STORIES | Tagged Asia, Censorship, Islam, Islamabad, Junoon, Lahore, Mark Levine, Metal, Pakistan, Rock Music, Sufism | Leave a response