Buy More Incense

By Michael Spahr on September 30, 2010

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

The award winning classic is finally online - completely and for free...!

Buy More Incense was the first production ever done in the name of norient. Thomas Burkhalter and Michael Spahr have produced and directed this film in the year 2000. Since then many things have happened including 9-11. But somehow the documentary film about British Asian musicians in London and Birmingham is still not totally out of date.

Here’s the whole movie in five parts. Enjoy!

If you are interested in a DVD version of the film (including some extra footage) contact norient.

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

Tags: 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

Authors:

Michael Spahr

Michael Spahr is a web editor of norient.com. He is the co-director of the Norient Musikfilm Festival. He is a media artist specialized in video art and audio-visual performances. He also directs and produces films. Michael Spahr has studied history, philosophy and media science in Bern (Switzerland) and Amsterdam (Netherlands). After his master’s degree at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam he started working for Dutch and Swiss TV companies. Since 2003 he has been running his own media and art companies. At the moment he works part-time as news editor for the community radio station Radio Bern RaBe.
Website: www.rhaps.com

Thomas Burkhalter

Thomas Burkhalter, an ethnomusicologist, music journalist and cultural producer from Bern (Switzerland), runs the research project «Global Niches – Music in a transnational World» at the Zurich University of the Arts. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of norient – Network for Local and Global Sounds and Media Culture. He produced and tours with the audio-visual performances «Sonic Traces: From the Arab World», «Sonic Traces: From Switzerland», co-curates the norient Musikfilm Festival), and co-directed the documentary film «Buy More Incense» (2002) about Indian and Pakistani musicians of second and third generation in the UK. His dissertation «Creating Sense out of Chaos: New Sounds from Beirut« researched empirically experimental and popular music in Lebanon (University of Bern and Oldenburg, 2009). His book «Local Music Scenes and Globalization: Transnational Platforms in Beirut» is going to be published by Routledge in 2013.
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4 responses to “Buy More Incense”

Kauft mehr Räucherstäbchen « Lö Trösenbeck
October 4, 2010 at 12:50 pm | Permalink

[...] in London und Birmingham nun vollständig und gratis online angeschaut werden kann. Genau HIER IM NORIENT. Da ein kurzer Ausschnitt: veröffentlicht unter: Tripping Kommentar schreiben Kommentare (0) [...]
Aamir Q
October 30, 2010 at 7:11 am | Permalink

Very cool – thanks for posting this! I’m gonna dig up my TJ Rehmi CDs and give them a listen this weekend!
Norient Style Filmmaking
December 19, 2010 at 12:35 pm | Permalink

[...] Das wurde von der Norient-Filmcrew auch zuweilen getan, als sie vor gut zehn Jahren den Film Buy More Incense realisierte. Auch die beiden Norient Musikfilm Festivals sind durch die Doktrin [...]
Victoria
February 20, 2013 at 12:10 am | Permalink

Hello, I’m interested in a song from the beginning of the first part of a movie! If you could please write the name of the singer and name of the song itself, i’ll be really appreciate it.
Sincerely,
Victoria