Snaps

Listen to this mix of dance music from Central Asia. For this, our Bishkek-based contributor compiled a rather diverse playlist of dance music from Kazakh and Kyrgyz musicians, both pop and trending and underground.

Warum bezeichnet Irans Revolutionsführer Ali Khamenei Israel als «bösartigen Krebstumor, der entfernt und vernichtet werden muss»? Über die persisch-sprachige Nazipropaganda im Rundfunk und ihre bis ins 21. Jahrhundert spürbaren Folgen.

Alex Rigotti explores the city of Bern, Switzerland, using only their hearing – and in doing so, uncovers new worlds of understanding perception and the environment.

From dreamy, hypnotic ballads, to fragments of classical piano, to glitchy and playful electronica ¬– Arexibo has promised a playlist that forgoes a consistency with genre and instead, blends together distinct artists to create a love letter for Seoul.

Curator and researcher Bhavisha Panchia crafts a thoughtful review of Gilles Aubry’s «Sawt, Bodies, Species: Sonic Pluralism in Morocco», detailing that the book is a conscious revisit of what it means to listen to and through sonic and musical heritage.

What role and methods can a privileged Western person adopt when curating contemporary music from a global perspective? In his ongoing endeavor to understand the world through music and sound, Norient founder Thomas Burkhalter suggests 13 curatorial principles.

For Iranian metal musician Nikan Khosravi, music is a way to articulate protest. Having lived under state repression, metal, as he explains in this personal essay, helped him to stay candid with himself and to express his dark feelings.

Woher kommt die Motivation, ein Festival für Musik aus Iran und der iranischen Diaspora zu organisieren? In diesem Text erinnert sich Klangteppich-Festivalmacherin Franziska Buhre an eine prägende Reise nach New Orleans im Jahre 2016.