Norient Playlist 08/22: Durham

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Norient Playlist 08/22: Durham
Norient Playlist 08/22: Durham

Listen to this playlist of artists from Durham and their current releases. This selection by Durham-based artist Debt Stalker is a collection of tracks that compliment both the physical terrain of the city and the ever-changing DIY electronic music scene in the region.

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Design: Maria Uthe
Sound: Suzi Analogue, ZenSoFly

Under Clear Starry Nights

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Under Clear Starry Nights
Under Clear Starry Nights

Listening to live music outside can be a life changing experience. For our author, it set nothing less than the pathway of his life.

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Design: Ali Sayah

Norient Playlist 07/22: Montevideo

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Norient Playlist 07/22: Montevideo
Norient Playlist 07/22: Montevideo

Listen to this playlist of artists from Montevideo and their current releases. With his selection of talented artists, Montevideo-based music producer and DJ Pobvio attempts to show the diversity of the Uruguay underground music scene.

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Design: Maria Uthe
Sound: Ojosfinos

Norient Playlist 06/22: New York

Norient Playlist 06/22: New York
Norient Playlist 06/22: New York
Norient Playlist 06/22: New York

Listen to this playlist of artists from New York and their current releases. It’s a selection of things that NYC-born and based sound practitioner Geng PTP has been returning to, over and over again.

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Design: Maria Uthe
Sound: Chynna

Origin Is Not a Shallow Part of Identity

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Origin Is Not a Shallow Part of Identity
Origin Is Not a Shallow Part of Identity

With the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, our Poland-based writer realized that much of her favorite experimental music that was considered Russian is actually from Ukraine. Did she unwittingly practice «musical imperialism»?

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Design: Ali Sayah

One Way Passage to Tehran

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One Way Passage to Tehran
One Way Passage to Tehran

The audiovisual artist Shaahin Peymani and his family share a long history of migration from Iran to Germany and back. Here he maps the route from his German grandmother’s migration diary alongside one of his own compositions.

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Design: Maria Uthe

NairobiConscious: Through the Airwaves

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NairobiConscious: Through the Airwaves
NairobiConscious: Through the Airwaves

Kamwangi Njue traces the story of political (i.e. conscious) music in Kenya, drawing on his own biography. He asks: Can conscious music achieve the impact it seeks when it has to play in the same sphere as popular music made purely for entertainment?

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Design: dudusquad
Sound: KBC Radio news bulletin, 1998

From Shamisen to Kayamba

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From Shamisen to Kayamba
From Shamisen to Kayamba

After growing up in Japan, Sally, a Kenyan teenager, wanted to reconnect with Kenyan music upon returning home, while dealing with the meaning of that term, «home».

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Design: dudusquad

Urban Legends

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Urban Legends
Urban Legends

Kamau Ngigi aka Kamaa aka Githingithia (Earthquake) is one of the founders of legendary rap trio Kalamashaka, widely regarded as originators of Kiswahili rap in Nairobi. Here, he tells the story of the Nairobi of his day.

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Design: dudusquad

Angalia Saa: My Timeline of Protest Music in Kenya

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Angalia Saa: My Timeline of Protest Music in Kenya
Angalia Saa: My Timeline of Protest Music in Kenya

Conscious Kiswahili rap gave the youth a voice of protest towards the turn of the millennium. Today, more mainstream popular musicians have joined in, making music with direct critical messages.

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Design: dudusquad

What Remains? – A Nairobi West Nostalgia

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What Remains? – A Nairobi West Nostalgia
What Remains? – A Nairobi West Nostalgia

Nairobi’s West/South C area was the home of the «Boomba» party sound. Now only the bars remain. What happened?

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Design: dudusquad
Photo: Hiro Otake (Flickr)
Sound: K’rupt