projects about
articles upcoming contact
     

Latest articles
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

MUSIKETHNOLOGISCHE HÖHENFLÜGE IN EINER POSTKOLONIALEN WELT
Ein Plädoyer für die Musikethnologie in der Schweiz
Die Musikethnologie droht bald komplett aus den Lehrplänen der Schweizer Universitäten zu verschwinden. Das darf und muss nicht sein! Ein Plädoyer von Thomas Burkhalter
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
GLOBAL GHETTOTECH
Fresh Musics from a post-colonial World
The Brazilian journalist Camilo Rocha interviews the ethnomusicologist, DJ and norient writer Wayne Marshall about the latest musical trends around the globe: Reggaeton, Kwaito, Kuduro, and Grime.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
"GLOBALISTS“ SEEK PERIPHERAL SOUNDS
The New US-Ghettotech-Generation
Most DJs direct their ears to a few musical Meccas in the First World,
such as New York, London, Berlin, and Paris. This decade, however, a
new category has emerged, globalist DJs who go much further in their
musical explorations.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
HIDDEN TRUTHS
Music, Politics and Censorship in Lukashenko’s Belarus'
Lemez Lovas and Maya Medich turn their attention to Belarus, an authoritarian former Soviet country buffering the EU and Russia, where freedom of information and expression have become the unrelenting victims in an increasingly destructive battle for political control.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
GET STARTED, ROMANIA!
Rumäniens neue Generation elektronischer Musiker
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
ZENSUR KENNT KEINE GRENZEN
Zur Weltkonferenz von Freemuse in Istanbul
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
IM SCHATTEN DER POLITIK BLÜHT DIE MUSIK
Der iranische Labelchef Ramin Sadighi im Gespräch
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
SHAGGY IN TANSANIA
Beobachtungen rund um ein Reggae-Konzert in Dar es Salaam
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
CULTURAL HYBRIDITY IN MEXICAN ROCK MUSIC
About ‘Latinness’ in ‘Guacamole Rock’
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
ART CANNOT BE NOT POLITICAL
Cultural Impacts from and on Marginalised Regions: the Balkans
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
HEUTE BUNDES, GESTERN WARSCHAU
Gedanken über Trends der St. Petersburger Populärmusik
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
THE RISE OF REGGAETON
From Daddy Yankee to Tego Calderón, and beyond
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
ICH FAHR' TOYOTA, WAS FÄHRST DU?
Swahili Rap in Tansania
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
find

FOCUS
-------------------------------

Talk, Film & Soundsystem

NORIENT IN KRAKOW!






norient is invited to Poland. We present our work, together with guest artists Tarek Atoui (Leb), VJ Rhaps (CH), Daladala Soundz (Ger) and EleKTro mOOn (Pol, Hun).

For more Information:
Muzyka i Swiat, 17-19.4.2008



NORIENT COLLABORATION
-------------------------------

RESPECT YOUR MOTHERLAND!!!



Seit 2008 arbeitet NORIENT eng mit dem Zürcher Kollektiv MOTHERLAND zusammen. Motherland organisiert seit 2007 musikalische Shuttleflüge in Afrikas Boom-Regionen von morgen.

Immer am Ersten Freitag im Monat im Helsinki Klub in Zürich.

Next: Freitag, 2. Mai 2008
Motherland calling from Banjul

Weitere Dates siehe MOTHERLAND





ORDER NEWSLETTER
-------------------------------


norient focuses on independent musicians and music scenes all over the world. ©+p Thomas Burkhalter

Webdesign: Eva Rolli