2024-09-18
20 分钟Monocle’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco speaks with the founder of Ostinato Records Vik Sohonie, who just released a new compilation entitled ‘Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia’ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hello and welcome to the Monaco Weekly.
For today's show, I speak with Vic Sohoni, founder of Ostinato Records, about their latest release, Synthesizing the Silk Roads, Uzbek disco, Tajik folktronica, Uyghur rock and Crimean tatar jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia.
It is an impressive anthology.
Let's hear it from Vicky.
So the label is now entering.
It's just past its eighth year.
We started in 2016.
Of course, there was a few years before that.
We had to do some groundwork, but the label was largely about me being a former journalist and a lover of storytelling, a lover of the global south, because that's where I'm from.
I was born in India.
I grew up in Southeast Asia most of my life.
I live here again.
So I had a huge affinity for the developing world, the emerging world, the global south, whatever you want to call it these days.
And I noticed that the stories that were being told about the global south didn't really capture the full essence, the panorama, the depth of these societies.
And I thought as a journalist, I felt very limited in what I could tell because I needed solid, concrete proof to kind of show the vibrance and richness and the histories of these societies.
And I knew just reporting as a journalist do on the current events or on the politics don't really give you that.
But if you focus on the music, which I've been a long fan of music, I've been collecting records all my life.
I've DJed since I was a teenager.
If you focus on the music, you have.
What I always like to say is an indisputable evidence in the court of history to say, if you listen to the music from Haiti or from Sudan, deeply misunderstood parts of the world, but also parts of the world that are huge historical crossroads, which was what gives their music such richness and depth, you can then present a whole argument to people to say, I can challenge your entire perception of the country or.