By Alison Fensterstock on December 1, 2012
By Alison Fensterstock on 1 December 2012 in
STORIES
Katey Red, Sissy Nobby, Big Freedia: These successful Sissy Rappers turn New Orleans around. Plus many other cities as well.
Posted in STORIES, XFEATURED | Tagged 4. Norient Musikfilm Festival, Big Freedia, Bobby Marchan, Bounce, Cheeky Blakk, Chev off the Ave., Crunk, Dirty South, Gay Culture, Gender, Globale Nischen, Juvenile, Katey Red, Lil Jon, New Orleans, Partners-n-Crime, Patsy Vidalia, Queer, Rap, Sex, Sissies With Attitude, Sissy Nobby, Soulja Slim, Tupac Shakur, USA, Vockah Redu, Ying Yang Twins |
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 Norient on August 1, 2012
By Norient on 1 August 2012 in
BLOG
(*) In part three of norient’s thematic dossiers we have a look on queer music movements, we listen to musicians who broach the issue of queerness and follow shrill drag-performances.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Azelia Banks, Bitch, Dossier: Queer, Drag, Gender, Japan, New Orleans, Peaches, Plaided, Pussy Riot, Queer, Rap, Russia, Sao Paulo, Sissy Bounce, Sookee, Visual Kei |
By Thomas Burkhalter on May 12, 2012
By Thomas Burkhalter and Simon Grab on 12 May 2012 in
AUDIO
Rapper La Gale is half Swiss and half Lebanese. In our Norient Podcast she talks about her political message and her first CD.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Arab World, Christian Pahud, Diaspora, Globale Nischen, Karine Guignard, La Gale, Larytta, Lausanne, Lebanon, Rap, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland |
By Theresa Beyer on March 14, 2012
By Theresa Beyer on 14 March 2012 in
BLOG
Speech Debelle just released her second album “Freedom of Speech”, where she comment the global oil crisis or the London riots of 2011. In the interview with norient the English-Jamaican rapper has less appetite for counsciousness.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Blaze up a fire, Conscious Rap, Corynne Elliott, Dionne Bromfield, England, Freedom of Speech, Hip Hop, Jamaica, London, Mercury Prize, Rap, riot, Speech Debelle, Tinchy Stryder |
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 Norient on March 2, 2012
By Norient on 2 March 2012 in
BLOG
The song “Shock” by French-Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux became the soundtrack of the Chilean student movement. The title of her newly released album “la bala” lives up to its promise of powerfulness.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged 1977, Ana Tijoux, Anamaria Merino Tijoux, Chile, Hip Hop, La bala, Latin Hip-Hop, Rap, Santiago de Chile, Sebastian Pinera, Shock, student protests |
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 |
