The album by Daniel Mburu Muhuni and Sven Kacirek is subtitled A Sonic Anthropology and tells the story of the impact of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) in 11 tracks consisting of interview excerpts with smallholder farmers, activists and local politicians as well as various sound tracks.
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The online magazine calls itself a “Network for local and global Sounds and Media Culture.” and writes about itself: “Norient searches worldwide for new music, sounds and noise. It discusses current viewpoints of the music world critically, from different perspectives and always close to the musicians and their networks.(…)”
Brooklyn artist KRTS’s music video addresses police violence in superimposed, fast-cut found footage images.
The international online database for female, transgender and non-binary DJs, musicians, composers, producers, visual artists, journalists, researchers and facilitators in the field of electronic music and digital arts exists since 1998 and was founded by the Viennese Electric Indigo.
This interview by Annie Goh with Alexander G. Weheliye is subtitled “Untuning the Historiography of Berlin Techno” and asks questions about the genesis of the history of the Berlin techno scene in the 1990s and its (claimed) heterogeneity.
The online show, a mix of rap video and news format invented by rappers Keyti and Xuman, has been around since 2013. Meanwhile, various Senegalese musicians* present national and international themes, mostly in Wolof and French.
This compilation gathers songs of Turkish and Turkish-German musicians. All the plays were created in Germany until the early 1990s and focus on the life and work of the first generation of immigrants.
The US-American musician Saul Williams processes racist experiences from his childhood and youth in this track.
In her 1966 song “My Country Tis of Thy People You’re Dying,” Canadian-born musician, visual artist, and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie addresses the colonization of the Americas, the mass killings, expulsions, and disenfranchisement of indigenous people that accompanied it, and the centuries-long denial of these acts.
Argentine artist Chocolate Remix makes reggaeton – but without the sexism that is otherwise often inherent in the tracks of this genre.
The track of the Berlin rapper Matondo is about (colonial) racism in his hometown Berlin, which reaches up to the present, and about resistance.
Bonga Kuenda is a singer/songwriter from Angola who has produced over 30 albums with anti-colonial and dissident content since the 1970s. His music contains elements of semba, kizomba, Portuguese folk and samba.