A wild mix of flavors, from limbo and madness, melancholy and fervor, as well as a self-deprecating humor. Watch a list of independent music videos from post-war-struck Kosovo.
Energetic black metal from Indonesia, experimental hip hop from Egypt, and bass-heavy trap from Slovenia, depicted in harsh cuts and radically colorful imagery that play with your senses. In this ongoing series, launched in 2012, we invite artists, writers, and researchers to curate a playlist of music videos from the country of their residence or origin. Music and sound have often become profitable data traveling at light speed around the globe, generating flat geographies without context. 5 Video Clips from invites listeners to walk, accompanied by the curator’s comments, on the videos’ alternative geographies, and to create their own map of meanings and imaginations.
Playlist by Fari BradleyAround this enormous, ancient country in five music videos, Iran’s vibrant creative scene thrives despite censorship and oppression. Western music is frowned upon, dancing and women singing in public are illegal, and yet musicians reach the exiled diaspora via the internet.
Playlist by Loht VostokSpeaking truth through poetry, a devotion to challenging stereotypes and life-affirming beats. Watch a list of videos from the depths of the lively music scenes in Honduras.
Playlist by DJ Borş aka MadalinaIn this video list, Moldova-based DJ Borș reflects on the identitarian limbo and relativity of her post-imperialist reality, asking: How are we using music to create multiple directions for our diverse existences?
