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Nachruf auf Ahmed Basiony
Ahmed Basyoni starb an den Demonstrationen der ägyptischen Revolution 2011 infolge von Schussverletzungen. Ein Portrait dieses ägyptischen Klang- und Medienkünstlers. Podcast In Gedenken an den...
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‘Martyr Pop’– Made in Egypt
During the 2011 revolution, most Egyptian pop singers said nothing. Now they are back and praising the national martyrs in song. A PR gaffe or more? One of the pop-culture phenomena coming out of the...
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Islam und Musik in Kairo
Der Islam ist im akustischen Alltag der ägyptischen Hauptstadt Kairo allgegenwärtig. Die Taxifahrer im chaotischen Verkehr lassen sich von kunstvollen Koran-Rezitationen beruhigen. Und im...
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Revolutionsmusiker wird geehrt
Ramy Essam, Protestsänger aus Ägypten, erhält den Freemuse Award 2011. Sein Song "Irhal" ("Hau ab") wurde letzten Februar zur Hymne der Proteste auf dem Kairoer Tahrir-Platz. Nun wird er für sein...
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Wenn die Scheinwerfer ausgehen
Musik, Gesang und Bauchtanz gehören in Ägypten zu jedem Hochzeitsfest. Je pompöser und kostspieliger Band und Tänzerinnen, desto angesehener ist der Gastgeber. Paradoxerweise geniessen die Tänzerinnen...
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Mapping Cairo
France24's multimedia-webdocumentary «The song of Tahir square. Music at the heart of revolution» invites to dive in contrasting places of music in Cairo. The interactive concept gives a new approach...
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Tape jam session pt.1: 1944 to 1959
In 1932 the German-Austrian engineer Fritz Pfleumer invented the magnetic tape. Now it was possible to edit, cut, loop and mix and easier to change speed and pitch of recorded sounds – a breeding...
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Die Antithese zur Revolutionsmusik
Mit Lobeshymnen auf die Revolution kann sich die Electro-Szene in Kairo wenig identifizieren. Hinsichtlich der institutionellen und politischen Bedingungen sind ihre wilden Parties mit...
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Metal in Egypt
15 years ago Egyptian metal-heads were indicted with Satanism and accordingly controlled – since then little has been heard from Egypt’s metal scene. Ralph Kronauer and Luca Tommasini have been talking...
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New Sounds from Cairo
I’m just back from a research trip in Egypt. I visited Cairo to write an article on subcultural music for a book around arts and culture in Egypt, published by Goethe Institute Cairo in autumn 2013. We...
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Sonic Traces: From the Arab World – Release
This limited vinyl offers music, sounds and noises from the Arab World: Propaganda music by political groups and clans, psychedelic Arabic Rock from the late 1960s and 1970s, the noises of bombs and...
View ArticleNorient Blognotes #3
Noch einmal, kurz vor Jahresende, springt Norient ins Gewimmel des WorldWideWeb, stöbert, wühlt und klickt was das Zeug hält und pickt musikalische Perlen, Neuheiten und Highlights der letzten Wochen...
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On the occidental perception of Sha3byton
The swiss DJ Phil Battiekh is one of the first to import Electro-Sha3by/Shaaby/Chaabi from Egypt to Europe. In his essay he reflects about the occidental perception, fictitious causalities by the...
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Missverständnisse erwünscht
Cairo Liberation Front aus dem niederländischen Tilburg ist das erste westliche DJ-Kollektiv, das sich in seinen Live-Performances und Soundcloud-Mixes Electro Sha‘abi aus Kairo einverleibt. Im...
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Electro Sha’abi: Autotune-Rebels in Cairo
Mahragan is the digital version of Sha'abi, the popular party sound of Cairo's satellite suburbs. The lyrics talk about banalities of everyday life and revolution-weariness – in biting sarcasm and with...
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Tamer Hosny – The army, the revolution and his fans
Working as a musician during times of a revolution can be a hard thing to do. The Egyptian pop singer Tamer Hosny has to maintain a balance between those in power and his fan base. A thin line. To the...
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The Yamaha PSR OR-700 à la Islam Chipsy
A short story of a keyboard virtuoso from Cairo: Islam Chipsy just released his first vinyl and is working on his first studio album. Plus there are other great tracks, performed on synthesizers and...
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Norient April 2014 Selection
Norient keeps searching for new sounds and puts together a monthly playlist from Soundcloud. Enjoy or skip through tracks from upcoming and well-known artists from a wide variety of places – urban pop...
View ArticleOriental-Trap
Manipulating Oriental melodies and rhythms with digital software seems in vogue - once again. This is what this collection of grime, dub-, breakcore-, hip-hop-, noise-, new-wave-dabké- and...
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Live 1: Islam Chipsy (Bern)
Samstag/Sonntag, 17. Januar 2015. Die diesjährige Norient Clubnacht in der Café-Bar Turnhalle im PROGR Bern steht ganz im Zeichen von schrillen Keyboard Sounds aus der ägyptischen Hauptstadt Kairo. Mit...
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