By Maha El Nabawi on November 13, 2018
By Maha El Nabawi on 13 November 2018 in
STORIES
For musicians living and performing abroad, it can be a challenge to avoid being exoticised and framed in an aesthetic prison. The Egyptian Mohamed Abozekry has reconciled the traditional and the avant-garde.
Posted in STORIES, XFEATURED | Tagged Abdullah Miniawy, Arab World, Beirut, Beit El Oud, Belonging, Center Stage tour, classical Arabic music, Dina El Wedidi, Don’t Replace Me by a Machine, Europe, Exotica, Exotism, France, HeeJaz, Ibrahim Maalouf, Kalthouhm, Kamilya Jubran, Karkade, Lebanese Civil War, Lotfy Abaza, Maha El Nabawi, Maryam Saleh, Mohamed Abozekry, Mohamed Arafa, Nadah El Shazly, Naseem Shamma, Palestine, Paris, Sarah Murcia, Sufi music, Tamer Abu Ghazaleh, Trio Abozekry |
By Apkass on March 14, 2016
By Apkass on 14 March 2016 in
BLOG
Edgar Sekloka aka Suga is an author, poet, composer and rapper from Paris. Instead of having a journalist perspective on the artist we asked Apkass, another great contemporary poet, to drop a few lines about Sekloka. An art work by itself.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged 1+1, 1+1 Season 1, 1n1, 1plus1, Apkass, Cameroun, Chant d’Encre, Democratic Republic of Congo, Edgar Sekloka, Gaël Faye, Hip Hop, Kamerun, Kinshasa, Lomé, Milk Coffee & Sugar, New Formats, Norient, Paris, Poet, Poetry Slam, Rap, Rwanda, Sarbacane, Slam, Sound Development, Suga, Togo, Yao Bobby |
By Cande Sánchez Olmos on October 30, 2015
By Cande Sánchez Olmos on 30 October 2015 in
VIDEO
The music video «Champs-Élysées» by Bonnie Banane and Walter Mecca (2014, Division Paris) mimics today’s trivial lifestyles and challenges at the same time the misconception of women by parodying their seeming frivolity.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged body, Bonnie Banane, Brands, Champs-Elysées, Division Paris, feminism, Gender Roles, HELMI, Hip Hop, lo-fi, Lo-Fi Rap, Money, Niki Minaj, Paris, Parody, Rap, Scarface, Seismographic Sounds, Tony Montana, Waltaa, Walter Mecca, Weirdata, Woman |
By Wayne Marshall on October 27, 2015
By Wayne Marshall on 27 October 2015 in
VIDEO
A kaleidoscopic tumble through decades of international street fashion, the video clip «Champs-Élysées» by Bonnie Banane poses puzzles about class and style. It’s not clear that it transcends the pitfalls of classface minstrelsy, or even gives a shit.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Bonnie Banane, Champs-Elysées, chav, Division Paris, Fashion, ghetto fabulous, HELMI, Hip Hop, lo-fi, Lo-Fi Rap, Money, Paris, Rap, Seismographic Sounds, Waltaa, Walter Mecca |
By Julio Mendívil on October 12, 2015
By Julio Mendívil on 12 October 2015 in
STORIES
The Peru-born author performed with folkloric groups on the streets and squares of Germany to earn his living. Here, he discusses amongst others how Andean musicians changed their repertoire to meet German tastes.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged Alborada, Andean music, Augusto Pinochet, Bolivia, Buenos Aires, Buskers, Carlos Vila, Chile, Ecuador, ethnography, Ethnomusicology, Exotica, Fernando Ríos, Folklore, Germany, Identity, Illapu, Incas, Indians, Inti Illimani, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Julio Mendivil, Karl May, La Paz, Los Clchakis, Los Incas, Los K’jarkas, Mallku, Migration, música latinoamericana, Nueva Canción Chilena, Oliver Shanti, Othering, Paris, Paul Simon, Peru, Quilapayún, Raymond Thévenot, Salvador Allende, Savia Andina, Seismographic Sounds, Sixto Ayvar, Teobaldo Martínez, Uña Ramos, Urubamba |
By Barbara Alge on March 6, 2015
By Barbara Alge on 6 March 2015 in
ACADEMIC
The development of a «Luso world music», a transnational musical movement that brings together popular and traditional musics of the Portuguese-speaking world and departing mainly from the city of Lisbon.
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged Afro Music Channel, Angola, António Cariações, Arturo Soares da Silva, B.Leza, Barbara Alge, Bart Vanspauwen, Beira Baixa, Black Company, Bonga, Brazil, Brigada Vitor Jara, Buraka Som Sistema, Cape Verde, Carlinhos Brown, Carlos do Carmo, Carlos Martins, Carnation Revolution, Casa da Lusofonia, Casa do Brasil, Celina Pereira, Cesária Évora, Chullage, Coimbra, Cool Hipnoise, cosmopolitanism, Danny Silva, David B_yrne, David Ferreira, DocLisboa, Documentary Film, Duo Ouro Negro, East-Timor, Enchufada, Fado, Fausto Bordalo Dias, Fernando Lopes-Graça, FNAC, Fofa, Fortaleza, Francisco Fanhais, Francisco Rebelo, Funana, Galicia, General D, Glaura Lucas, Guinea-Bissau, Haarlem, Heróis do Mar, Hip Hop, Instituto Camões, Janita Salomé, João Afonso, João Gomes, João Lisboa, João Xavier, Jorge de La Barre, José Afonso, José da Silva, José Mário Branco, Kimberly da Costa Holton, kizomba, kuduro, Kussondulola, Lisbon, Lissabon, Loop, Luís Cilia, Lundum, Lura, Lusáfrica, Luso World Music, lusofonia, Lusophone music, Lusotropicalism, Marcelo D2, Maria Manuel Baptista, Mariana Moore Matos, Mário Rui Silva, Marisa Monte, Michel Giacometti, morna, Mozambique, N'Du, Netherlands, Nigga Poison, Norte Sul, Nylon, Orquestra Sons da Lusofonia, PALOP, Paris, Paulo de Carvalho, Pop dell'Arte, Porto, Portugal, Portuguese, Portuguese-speaking African countries, protest song, Radio Lusofonia, Rão Kyao, Rapública, RBMA, RDP Africa, Red Bull Music Academy, RTP, RTP Africa, Rui Mingas, Sam the Kid, Samba cação, Santoca, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sara Tavares, Saudade, Sebastião Vicente, semba, Semba Tropical, Seresta, Sérgio Godinho, Sétima Legião, Sons de Fala, Spaceboys, Super Mama Djombo, Táxi, Tcheka, Tiago Santos, Timothy Sieber, Tito Paris, Transnationalism, Tropicália, Vítor Belanciano, Vitorino, World Connection, World Exhibition, Zeca |
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on January 16, 2015
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on 16 January 2015 in
BLOG
Samstag 17. (St. Gallen) und Sonntag 18. Januar (Bern) am 6. Norient Musikfilm Festival: Transforma ist weltweit eines der innovativsten Kollektive für audiovisuelle Performances. Mit dem Videokünstler Yro stellen sie ihre neue Performance vor.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged 6. Norient Musikfilm Festival, audio-visual, Berlin, Cornelia Lund, France, Germany, Luke Bennett, Paris, Performance, Simon Krahl, Transforma, VJ, Yro |
By Cornelia Lund on January 5, 2015
By Cornelia Lund on 5 January 2015 in
STORIES
Mysteriöse Gerätschaften, geologische Fundstücke, Licht, Sound und Video. Von dieser laborartigen Anordnung geht die audiovisuelle Performance Bysnthome der Künstlergruppe Transforma und Yro aus.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged 6. Norient Musikfilm Festival, audio-visual, Baris Hasselbach, Berlin, France, Germany, László Moholy-Nagy, Luke Bennett, Man Ray, Paris, Simon Krahl, Synthome, Transforma, VJ, Yro |
By Kevin Elamrani on October 10, 2014
By Kevin Elamrani on 10 October 2014 in
VIDEO
From techno to hip hop – from animation to satire. Kevin Elamrani, a young video artist from Paris, shows us a selection of eclectic videos with singular atmospheres from France, starting with a nightly party at your friends place.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged AIKpote, Atef Kahlaoui, Bonnie Banane, Florian Ronget, France, Frankreich, HELMI, Hip Hop, Hugo Paturel, Hybu, Kevin Elamrani, L.O.A.S., Marseille, Music and Satire, Nicolas Capus, Paris, Qoso, series-5-videoclips, series: 5 video clips from..., Techno, Waltaa, Walter Mecca |
By Heinrich Deisl on October 8, 2013
By Heinrich Deisl on 8 October 2013 in
STORIES
Ausflüge in musikalische und filmische Gefilde zwischen Traum und Wirklichkeit, Psychologie, Experiment und krudem Humor. Gibt es überhaupt sinnlose Musik?
Posted in STORIES | Tagged 'Pataphysik, Alfred Jarry, Alphonse Allais, André Breton, Andrew Hugill, Andrew Jones, Asmus Tietchens, Brion Gysin, Busby Berkeley, Captain Beefheart, Coil, David Lynch, Erik Satie, Henri Bergson, Henry Codman Potter, Henry Cow, Hirsche Nicht aufs Sofa, Jacques Lacan, Jarry und Boris Vian, Jean Baudrillard, Jean Cocteau, Jefferson Airplane, John Cage, Karl Marx, Lautréamont, Luc Etienne, Luis Bunuel, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Marx-Brothers, Maurits Cornelis Escher, Max Fleischer, Monty Python, Nurse With Wound, Paris, People Like Us, Psychoanalyse, René Clair, Salvador Dali, Sigmund Freud, Soft Machine, Sonische Symptome, Steven Stapleton, Surrealismus, Tex Avery, The Beatles, The Tape-Beatles, Ubu Roi, William Seward Burroughs |
By Andres Pfister on May 31, 2013
By Andres Pfister on 31 May 2013 in
ACADEMIC
In der Rubrik Future Academics stellt Norient wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs mit spannenden Uni-Abschlussarbeiten vor. Den Anfang macht Andres Pfister mit seiner Bachelorarbeit zu dem amerikanisch-französischen Komponisten Louis M. Gottschalk.
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged Calypso, Camille Stamaty, Chachacha, Charles Hallé, Frédéric-Guillaume Kalkbrenner, Havanna, Karibik, Karibismus, Kuba, Kunstmusik, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Louisiana Quartet, Miguel Failde, New Orleans, Norient Future Academics, Orchestra Tipica, Paris, Pierre Maleden, Rag Time, Rumba, Santiago de Cuba, Son, Symphonie Romantique, Tumba Francesa, USA |
By Ahmad Zatari on July 5, 2012
By Ahmad Zatari on 5 July 2012 in
STORIES
Using folk songs from Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, and Kuwait, Yasmine Hamdan’s self-titled new album revives the music of the region with an unheard of frankness and freshness.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged Ahmad Qaboor, Arab World, Beirut, Darine Hamze, Dossier Arab World, Elia Suleiman, In Kana Fouadi, Kwaidan Records, Laila Murad, Lebanon, Marc Codsi, Marc Collin, Mohammed Abdel Wahhab, Nouvelle Vague, Paris, Rima Khcheich, Soap Kills, Umaima al-Khalil, Ya Habibi Taala Lhaeni, Yasmine Hamdan, Zeid Hamdan |
By Andreas Glauser on March 16, 2011
By Andreas Glauser and Julia Kaelin on 16 March 2011 in
AUDIO
Ein Portrait über den experimentellen Klangarbeiter Eric Cordier aus Paris. Aus der neuen Norient-Serie von Brainhall.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Brainhall, Electro-Acoustic Music, Eric Cordier, France, Paris, Prelerecords, Soundscapes |
