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em guide impossible possibilities: the difficult paths of pakistani regional music. interview with daniyal ahmed of honiunhoni label

Daniyal Ahmed is a musician, ethnomusicologist, music enthusiast and founder of the honiunhoni label from Karachi based in Pakistan. The label started as a blog gathering recordings of regional classical music from Pakistan, but quickly evolved into a full-fledged platform for publishing and promoting local artists. Bulat Khalilov met Ahmed for an interview.

April 2025

em guide a düsseldorf-based label exploring local sounds, music from other regions and histories of forgotten scenes

In this article Ored Recording's Bulat Khalilov interviews Stefan Schneider, a prominent figure in the contemporary Düsseldorf scene. Although this statement may sound clichéd, it accurately reflects the musician’s extensive experience.

Januar 2025

em guide with mappa on the fluid boundaries between fictional and real sound worlds

Jakub Juhás likes to listen to sounds that are easily overheard – from soundscapes in ponds to gradually disappearing Ukrainian folk songs. Ján Solčáni met the Slovakian mappa label runner and talked with him about peripheries, creating in Eastern Europe and doing things with love.

Juni 2024

Foto: Zoltán Czakó

em guide cultivating tenderness through listening with warm winters ltd.

Warm Winters Ltd. is a great platform to discover experimental music (not only) from Eastern Europe. The label from Braitslava does not commit itself to genres, and yet the music is characterized by a certain tenderness. Label founder Adam Badí Donoval on his approach to curating and the challenges of running a label in Eastern Europe

April 2024

Adam Badí Donoval photographed by Andrea Blahová

gespräch mit makroscope

Nach Jahren des Lebens und Arbeitens in Zwischennutzungen entschied sich 2018 eine Gruppe von Künstler:innen, ein Haus inmitten der Innenstadt von Mülheim an der Ruhr zu kaufen: das Makroscope. Nach zweieinhalb Jahren Renovierung erstrahlt das Haus nun in neuem Glanz. Wir haben den einzigen festangestellten Mitarbeiter Felix Möser getroffen und ihn gefragt, was das Makroscope ausmacht. Ein Bericht von Hanna Fink.

Aus NOIES 04/22 März 2023

Ansicht auf das Ladenlokal des Makroscope
Foto: Moritz Ridder