By Susan Lindholm on December 11, 2018
By Susan Lindholm on 11 December 2018 in
STORIES
The Scandinavian code of conduct «jantelagen» encourages modesty and conformity. The movie «Silvana» shows, how the Swedish rapper Silvana Imam celebrates the exact opposite: pride and individuality.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged 9. Norient Musikfilm Festival, Desire, Gender Equality, Migration |
By Lisa Blanning on December 8, 2018
By Lisa Blanning on 8 December 2018 in
STORIES
The documentary film «Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.» portrays the popstar M.I.A. as a multi-faceted person. Screened at the 9th Norient Musikfilm Festival in Bern, Lausanne, and St. Gallen.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged 9. Norient Musikfilm Festival, Activism, Migration, War |
By Anna Trechsel on December 6, 2018
By Anna Trechsel on 6 December 2018 in
STORIES
Monzer Darwish’s compelling documentary «Syrian Metal Is War» captures the story of how the Metal underground in Syria seeks to survive during war. Screened on January 12, 2019, at 9th Norient Musikfilm Festival in Bern.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged 9. Norient Musikfilm Festival, Migration, War |
By Emma Dabiri on September 7, 2017
By Emma Dabiri on 7 September 2017 in
VIDEO
With her video «Orangutan» Italian artist and activist Karima 2G responded on racist comments of Italian politicians in the context of the election of Italy’s first black government minister Cécile Kyenge in 2013.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Activism, Belonging, Migration, Protest, Race, Seismographic Sounds |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on August 10, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 10 August 2017 in
STORIES
Aniruddha Das understands sampling as a political, yet militant instrument. In the interview he gives insight into his sampling practice and talks about musical exoticism, political meaning, and his use of distortion.
Posted in STORIES, XFEATURED | Tagged Appropriation, Diaspora, Exotica, Migration, Race, Sampling, Sampling Stories |
By Norient on July 4, 2017
By Norient on 4 July 2017 in
AUDIO
A new generation of Italian trap has quickly re-appropriated the music and made it the most bottom-up, teenage-oriented repertoire to make it into Italian mainstream media and music charts in the last couple of years. Listen to a mixtape by Francesco Fusaro.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Belonging, Migration, Protest |
By Francesco Fusaro on July 4, 2017
By Francesco Fusaro on 4 July 2017 in
STORIES
Trap has conquered Italy’s Charts with its own idiosyncratic take. Artists descended from immigrants raise political issues in an European society that is seeing ever-growing support of right wing ideas.
Posted in STORIES, XFEATURED | Tagged Belonging, Migration, Protest |
By Lucia Udvardyova on April 3, 2017
By Lucia Udvardyova on 3 April 2017 in
VIDEO
Far from folkloristic clichés and beyond the radar of the taste-shaping music press, there are alternative music scenes thriving in Central and Eastern Europe. Watch its most urgent video clips.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged 5 Video Clips From, 8. Norient Musikfilm Festival, Belonging, Capitalism, Depression, Migration |
By Sidney Sutter on March 25, 2017
By Sidney Sutter and Valentin Mettler on 25 March 2017 in
VIDEO
The crowd-shaped web documentary gives an insight into the unknown Eritrean music scene in Switzerland. The first Episode is centred around Switzerland-based Eritrean musicians and bands.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Belonging, Diaspora, Exile Guayla, Migration, Money |
By Werner Hasler on February 7, 2017
By Werner Hasler on 7 February 2017 in
AUDIO
In the podcast Palestinian singer Kamilya Jubran talks about her biography, being a musician in Europe, the power of music, and her song «Suite Nomade, Pt. 1», based on poetry from World War I about the state of war and how it effects fragile communities.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Belonging, Experience, Migration, Seismographic Sounds, Seismographic Sounds Podcasts, Tradition, War |
By Luca Gricinella on September 11, 2016
By Luca Gricinella on 11 September 2016 in
VIDEO
The first article on Norient.com in Italian is a commentary on the 2014 music video «Orangutan» by artist and activist Karima 2G. A commentary from the Norient book «Seismographic Sounds».
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged alienation, Belonging, Migration, music video, Nation, Protest, Seismographic Sounds |
By Nabeel Zuberi on July 4, 2016
By Nabeel Zuberi on 4 July 2016 in
VIDEO
Bishi’s video of «Albion Voice» is reminiscent of the Sex Pistols. She subverts imagery of the national flag while she inserts herself into a pastoral old England to question white Britishness.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Exotica, Hybridity, Migration, Nation, Seismographic Sounds, Tradition |
By Simon Grab on March 23, 2016
By Simon Grab on 23 March 2016 in
AUDIO
Within a hyperactive week of studio recording in Lomé Togo, Yao Bobby and Edgar Sekloka produced 5 tracks from scratch – together with skilled musicians and a patient sound engineer. The EP «Ispasskoi?» is available for download via Bandcamp for free.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged 1+1: Lomé, Migration |
By Benjamin LeBrave on March 18, 2016
By Benjamin LeBrave on 18 March 2016 in
BLOG
Another track from the 1+1 recording week in Lomé, Togo. Furthermore Benjamin LeBrave, founder of the Akwaaba record label in Accra, talked to 1+1 featured artist Yao Bobby about state pressure and his way to keep on standing straight.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged 1+1: Lomé, Awareness, Migration |
By Norient on March 7, 2016
By Norient on 7 March 2016 in
AUDIO
A Track by Salome MC and Shing02, produced within the 1+1 project – a worldwide recording project by Norient and Sound Development, July 9-15th, 2015, in Honolulu, Hawaii. A Podcast, lyrics and translation.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged 1+1: Honolulu, Migration |
By Simon Grab on March 7, 2016
By Simon Grab on 7 March 2016 in
AUDIO
Within a hyperactive week of studio recording in Lomé Togo, Yao Bobby and Edgar Sekloka produced 5 tracks from scratch – together with skilled musicians and a patient sound engineer. «Kilodé» means «What’s going on?» and is the main track.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged 1+1: Lomé, Migration |
By Dahlia Borsche on January 29, 2016
By Dahlia Borsche on 29 January 2016 in
ACADEMIC
«Where is Music?» The task of locating something as immaterial as sound has, thanks to the digital revolution, become more complex than ever. The importance of questioning today’s music mapping practices. From the CTM Festival Berlin 2016.
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged Belonging, Desire, Ethnomusicology, Migration, New Geographies |
By Elijah Wald on January 26, 2016
By Elijah Wald on 26 January 2016 in
BLOG
In their 2014 music video «La Bala», the Mexican narcocorrido stars Los Tigres Del Norte condemn the life of crime – quite unusual for norteño musicians. Here, our author talks about the ambivalence one can see in the band’s public representation.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Ethics, Migration, Seismographic Sounds, Tradition, Violence, War |
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on July 8, 2015
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on 8 July 2015 in
STORIES
Beirut based Syrian-Filipino Rapper Chyno writes lyrics and produces video clips dealing with the Syrian Civil War, a suicide bomber and other topics of the world he lives in. An interview.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged Class, Migration, Seismographic Sounds, War |
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on January 16, 2015
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on 16 January 2015 in
BLOG
Freitag, 16. und Samstag, 17. Januar am Norient Musikfilm Festival in St. Gallen und Bern: Islam Chipsy Live! Der Ägypter mit seinem radikalen Sound und einer extravaganten Spieltechnik ist einer der aufregendsten Musiker der Gegenwart.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Cairo, dance, Exotica, Migration |
By Giacomo Bottà on August 20, 2014
By Giacomo Bottà on 20 August 2014 in
VIDEO
Was ist Europa? Mitä on Eurooppa? Cos’è l’Europa? L’Europe c’est quoi? What is Europe? This is a good and confusing question. I actually have no idea anymore, so I started digging into popular music videos.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged 5 Video Clips From, Capitalism, Migration |
By Arshia Fatima Haq on August 5, 2014
By Arshia Fatima Haq on 5 August 2014 in
AUDIO
How Los Angeles based Omid Walizadeh went from underground hip hop to the Iranian cassette tapes of his childhood. further Arshia Fatima Haq talks with him about the recent explosion of vintage Iranian music on the global circuit.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Migration, Nostalgia, Technology |
By Antti-Ville Kärjä on June 30, 2014
By Antti-Ville Kärjä on 30 June 2014 in
VIDEO
Oriental shadow dances and muscle bounded hip hop – Finland’s music is multicultural and has much more to offer than Heavy Metal, shows our 5-videoclip-series from finnish ethnomusicologist Antti-Ville Kärjä.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged 5 Video Clips From, Migration, Nation, Tradition |
By Johannes Ismaiel-Wendt on May 6, 2014
By Johannes Ismaiel-Wendt on 6 May 2014 in
STORIES
Teil 1 unseres Dossiers: Edward W. Said als Musikkritiker, westliche Erzählungen über den Orient und Gegenentwürfe von Saam Schlamminger und Burnt Friedmann.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged colonialism, Ethnomusicology, Hybridity, Migration, Popular Orientalism(s), Tradition |
By Mark Terkessidis on October 25, 2013
By Mark Terkessidis on 25 October 2013 in
STORIES
Immer wieder geht vergessen: auch die Musik der «Gastarbeiter» gehört zur musikalischen Vielfalt Deutschlands. Das Projekt «Heimatlieder aus Deutschland» bringt sie auf die Bühne und geremixed auf eine Compilation.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged Ethnomusicology, Folklore, Hybridity, Migration, Tradition |
By Theresa Beyer (Norient) on September 20, 2013
By Theresa Beyer (Norient) on 20 September 2013 in
STORIES
Der syrische Komponist Hassan Taha erzählt im Interview von seinem musikalischen Weg von Damaskus über Maastricht nach Bern, von der Notwendigkeit des globalen Denkens und den Sorgen um seine Heimat.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged Experience, Migration, Othering, War |
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on March 22, 2013
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on 22 March 2013 in
STORIES
Boris Previsic organisiert Kompositionswettbewerbe in Südosteuropa und im Kaukasus. Im Gespräch äussert er sich zu Herausforderungen interkultureller Austauschprojekte.
Posted in STORIES, XFEATURED | Tagged Cultural Diplomacy, Migration, Music Production |
By Irina Cvijanović on November 26, 2012
By Irina Cvijanović on 26 November 2012 in
ACADEMIC
The Macedonian songs «Raise Up Your Hand» shows how traditional Roma music is used in electronic dance music today.
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged Diaspora, Ethnomusicology, Experience, Migration |
By Sarah Ross on September 7, 2012
By Sarah Ross on 7 September 2012 in
ACADEMIC
Die Geschichte des jiddischen Tangos ist eine Geschichte der Anpassung, der Grenzverschiebung und -überwindung. Aus den Einwanderer-Quartieren in Buenos Aires reiste er ans New York Yiddish Theatre und bald auch nach Europa.
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged dance, Diaspora, Folklore, Migration, Nation |
By Milena Krstic on June 25, 2012
By Milena Krstic on 25 June 2012 in
STORIES
Wenige Jahre nach Thomas Haferlachs Südamerikareise verwandelt er im Voodoohop-Kollektiv São Paulos brachliegende Flächen zu neonbunten Spielwiesen für schrille Parties im Neo-Tropicália-Stil.
Posted in STORIES, XFEATURED | Tagged Migration, Out of the Absurdity of Life, Performance, Remix |
By Katrin Wilke on March 28, 2012
By Katrin Wilke on 28 March 2012 in
STORIES
Auf ihrem Album «Traveller» steckt Anoushka Shankar, die britisch-indische Sitar-Spielerin und Tochter von Ravi Shankar, ihre eigene, neue Reiseroute ab zwischen klassischer indischer Musik und Flamenco. Ich gerate dabei auch ins Grübeln.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged dance, Folklore, Migration |
By David-Emil Wickström on February 6, 2012
By David-Emil Wickström on 6 February 2012 in
BLOG
Scandinavia evokes a wide range of connotations. For some these include breathtaking landscapes and a life close to nature, however for others these connotations include high taxes, a nanny state and despite expensive alcohol prices alcohol abuse. A CD review.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Migration, place, Tradition |
By Norient on January 30, 2012
By Norient on 30 January 2012 in
BLOG
Die Mexikanerin Lila Downs hat sich für ihr neues Album «Pecados y Milagros» (Sünden und Wunder) viel Zeit gelassen. Jetzt trumpft sie mächtig auf.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Folklore, Migration, Protest |
By Ane Hebeisen on January 23, 2012
By Ane Hebeisen on 23 January 2012 in
BLOG
Mit der Band Kadim und dem Modus Quartet kreuzt der bernisch-israelische Percussionist Omri Hason musikalische Einflüsse aus Europa, Indien und der arabischen Welt.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged hybrid, Migration |
By Anna Trechsel on January 10, 2012
By Anna Trechsel on 10 January 2012 in
STORIES
Gleich zweimal Hip-Hop aus dem Libanon zeigen die zwei Kurzfilme «Life from the BBC» und «Visit me once a year». – Am 13.1.2012 am 3. Norient Musikfilm Festival in Bern.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged „Life from the BBC“, „Visit me once a year“, 3. Norient Musikfilm Festival 2012, Arab World, Beirut, Bourj al-Barajneh, Diaspora, Documentary Film, Dossier Arab World, France, Hip Hop, I-Voice, Jackson Allers, Kitaa Bey-Route, Lebanon, Migration, Palestine, Rap, Siska, TNT, YaSeen |
By Marc Dietrich on December 26, 2011
By Marc Dietrich and Martin Seeliger on 26 December 2011 in
ACADEMIC
Zur Inszenierung von deutschen Rappern im Spannungsfeld von kultureller Tradition und politischem Diskurs. – «Bitte erzählt mir nix von Gangstarap, meine Jungs da draußen würden 50 Cent erstechen.»
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged Bling, Class, Migration, Othering |
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on November 9, 2011
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on 9 November 2011 in
STORIES
In der kabylische Musik, der einstigen algerischen Volksmusik, spiegeln sich eindrücklich Geschichte und Politik. Auf CD-Veröffentlichungen gibt es herausragende Musikerpersönlichkeiten zu entdecken.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged Belonging, Migration, Tradition |
By Theresa Beyer (Norient) on September 9, 2011
By Theresa Beyer (Norient) on 9 September 2011 in
STORIES
Der afghanische Rubab-Spieler Khaled Arman ist Artist in Residence beim Musikfestival Bern, das am Donnerstag unter dem Motto «Flucht» eröffnet wurde. Eine norientalische Wiederbegegnung.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged colonialism, Migration, Tradition, War |
By Christoph Fellmann on July 20, 2011
By Christoph Fellmann on 20 July 2011 in
STORIES
Auf dem Internet ist seit kurzem eine Sammlung mit über 10’000 Musik- und Comedynummern von 1901 bis 1925 frei zugänglich. Sie erlaubt einen neuen Blick auf die Anfänge der amerikanischen Popkultur.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged archive, Exotica, Migration, Music Business, Technology |
By Knut Henkel on June 29, 2011
By Knut Henkel on 29 June 2011 in
BLOG
Blechbläser des Balkans haben in den letzten Jahren viel Erfolg in Europa gehabt. Nun profiliert sich eine neue Generation und schafft mit neuen Anklängen und Rhythmen einen eigenen Sound.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Hybridity, Migration |
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on February 28, 2011
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on 28 February 2011 in
AUDIO
Ausländische Musikerinnen und Musiker in der Schweiz formen oft Musik, die so in ihrer Heimat nicht gehört wird – und gerade deshalb stösst sie auf Interesse.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Diaspora, Globale Nischen, Kara Sylla Ka, Meduoteran, Migration, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Swiss Music, Switzerland, Thementage2012, Wael Sami, Yang Jing |
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on February 7, 2011
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on 7 February 2011 in
AUDIO
Kara Sylla Ka lives in Geneva since 1996. He offers me tea, and reflects on the differences of being a musician in Senegal and in Switzerland.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Diaspora, Geneva, Globale Nischen, Kara Sylla Ka, Migration, Peul, Senegal, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Swiss Music |
