Noise Narrative

Newsletter investigating music and its impact on life
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I spent a day roaming around Tokyo’s record stores, with my camera around my neck. It was a good day!

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Maybe my favourite interview to date.

Over a Zoom call between Nigeria & LDN, we spoke about the displacement of honeybees, Iregun chant music, the injustices of chocolate production and more.

We also spent 10 minutes doing karaoke to Burna Boy songs.

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You can now listen back to our show on @NTSlive, which explores an aural history of Irish Trad music https://t.co/WTOpjbIbvC

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For those who are sick to death of Michael Bublé
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Our 50 favourite albums of the year list is live. https://t.co/0v0f8ZNaAp

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We sat down with @Auntie_Flo, discussing new music, the impact of time, the psychology of self-releasing, the politics of music categorisation & more.

This interview is worth a read, and the album is definitely worth a listen.

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Have you ever felt bereft that someone didn't enjoy the album you sent them?
Our latest deep dive explores the science & psychology behind what makes music subjective.
Read here: https://t.co/WLAqGaRX35

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DJ Premier is behind some of hip-hop's most revered productions. In our latest newsletter, we've unpacked his best work. https://t.co/PYpIyD8ygL

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Our music recommendations for October. Ambient jazz, post punk, 90s Japanese club, folk, disco and avant-garde RnB await you inside! https://t.co/SHABC92ppp

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We've re-published an investigation we ran in 2023, looking at the Arab World's first queer protest play. Flagranti is an act of artistic defiance against state discrimination. Interviews w/ @EssiaJaibi, @deena0deena & @Mawjoudin
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Our favourite albums of September - enjoy! https://t.co/NL0pzT32GU

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Our next newsletter drops today. It's the story of a man who smuggled techno into Soviet-ruled Latvia

We've interviewed Viktors Buda, director of the remarkable film Era of Dance & included a 2hr radio show of historic techno

Get all of this for free at https://t.co/LsDMCuEIRR

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We're chuffed to have 100 of you subscribed already.
To celebrate, we've launched a second newsletter series: 'Listens'.
We'll be sending super snappy, one-paragraph music recommendations to beef up your playlists each month.
Here's our first one!
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The Two-Tone message of unity and peace were a brave stand against a culture of division.

Our free newsletter explores the full story.

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Ska music emerged from the street corners of West Kingston in the 1940s and 50s.

In an attempt to democratise dancing, DJs and engineers would play from massive sound-systems in the street, offering an affordable alternative to big band and live jazz concerts…

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Their late lead singer, Terry Hall, reminisces here about it — “I don’t see ourselves as a band, really. We’re people who have this belief.”

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Our first newsletter and radio show will be on the history of Jamaican Ska, and how the subsequent 2-Tone Revolution helped to unify Thatcher’s Broken Britain

Join us if you fancy it!

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🚨News!🚨

Noise Narrative: a newsletter investigating music and its impact on life

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Stories of how music affects history, socio-politics and people, straight to your inbox

We’ll unpack each newsletter sonically with a 2-hour radio show, via @Aajamusic

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We started in 2020 as a platform to prove that music can tell us a lot about cultural environments

We'll still be looking for new music & wanting to speak to artists

We're just changing how we reach people: from sporadic articles to punchy episodic packages