The accordion is the most important traditional instrument in Slovenian music – but is it really the most uncool? Watch five music videos in which it is used in the usual but also experimental ways, from turbofolk to trap.
For Uruguay’s music undergrounds, pushing aesthetics and social change forward goes hand in hand. Listen to 5 music videos that function as safe spaces to express feminism, LGBTQIA+ rights, and hedonism.
Episode 12 of the «Timezones» podcast series explores the creation of art during the political struggle that has shaped Sri Lanka and its capital Colombo since the start of 2022.
From K-pop to reggaeton, from afrobeats, mahraganat to hyperpop. Music researcher and Norient founder Thomas Burkhalter guides us through new sounds of the world. Enjoy the playlist of this mixtape, produced for Swiss national radio SRF3.
Making field recordings is like tapping into an alien world. For our writer, it feels less like experiencing, more like becoming time itself.
Episode 11 of the «Timezones» podcast series delves into Budapest’s independent arts and music scene in the wake of the latest Hungarian parliamentary elections in April 2022.
In this sonic fiction, our writer depicts the Moroccan avant garde band Nass El Ghiwane as straying birds in search of a different life.
Listen to this playlist with a selection of tracks from the city’s underground producers.
Listen to this playlist of artists from Beirut. This selection features new and older releases by musicians across musical genres.
An introductory text to the Online Special «Norient City Sounds: Beirut». Special curator and writer Rayya Badran asks: what are the sounds of the aftermath of a collapse?
In this short essay, Rabea Hajaig recalls his experience as a Friday-night DJ at Bardo, the famous, now closed, queer bar in Beirut, Lebanon, its dance floors awash with a complex interplay of music.
