NORIENT BOOK ON MUSIC AND GLOBALIZATION
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5. NORIENT MUSIKFILM FESTIVAL BERN (01/2014)
Punk
(*) Ein Versuch von Freiheit
STORIES(*) In ihren Mixes bürstet Dj Marcelle aus Amsterdam verschiedenste Genres und experimentelle Sounds gegen den Strich. Ihr neues Album begleitet eine Minidoku und am 14. September legt die radikale DJane im Berner Dachstock auf.
Female Fury against Putin
STORIESSince their performance in a Moscow cathedral in February, three women of the Russian queer Punk band «Pussy riots» are in custody. In this article from before the arrest, the Riots talk about their artistic-political aims. Free Pussy!
The sudden infant
AUDIOJoke Lanz alias Sudden Infant arouses with dark-poetic, childish-dadaistic and very physical noise-sounds. Recently a book was published about him.
The Gospel of Beat-Man
AUDIOReverend Beat-Man is a mad trash rock’n’roll artist and owner of the label Voodoo Rhythm Records. Norient visited him on their quest for sonic traces in Switzerland.
Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam
VIDEOThursday 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.
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!
