Cartaz
Quinta, 25 de Julho
Sessa
Sergio Sayeg (aka Sessa) has always been entranced by what he calls
“the mess” of music: the accidental, tortuous nature of it, a path on which musicians and audiences alike can attain a higher purpose. A love supreme, if you will. While Sessa’s 2019 debut Grandeza explored the corporeal pleasures and gentle drunkenness of being in love, his new album out June 24th 2022, Estrela Acesa (which translates as Burning Star), gazes up to the heavens and ponders love both sensuous and spiritual, in the throes of its resultant hangover.
Sessa’s songs are sung in Portuguese, with visceral, sensual lyrics in the vein of Caetano Veloso, and the melodic flourishes of Jobim. However, the music gets a deliberate minimalist treatment rarely found in contemporary Brazilian music, more reminiscent of the bareness of Leonard Cohen, with touches of Tropicalia and free jazz.
VVV
It’s nine frenetic, committed pop pills that have all the destructiveness of hooligan culture and the destigmatization of a raverous hedonism.
Mostoleño trio VVV [Trippin’you] are taking the electronic music world by storm.
With their provocative approach and uncompromising music, they are defying expectations and shaking the foundations of the genre. They’re not coming to please, they’re coming to disrupt, to incite sonic disorder.
Their music is a manifesto of resistance, a post-punk roar that combines with genres such as mákina, trance, jungle, dubstep and UK garage. This brave and determined encounter immerses the listener in a whirlwind of urgency and generational violence.
Ammar 808
Deep TR-808 bass meets pan-Maghreb beats, timeless voices and futurist visions. AMMAR 808 is Sofyann Ben Youssef, the sonic mastermind behind the sensational bands such Bargou 08 and Kel Assouf.
The future is right now. We have driverless cars, robots taking over jobs, and commercial space travel is on the event horizon. Somehow, humanity has slipped into a science fiction life. But you can’t have a future without a past, something AMMAR 808 knows very well. On his debut release, Maghreb United, featuring the singers Mehdi Nassouli (Morocco), Sofiane Saidi (Algeria) and Cheb Hassen Tej (Tunisia), he connects the two to offer a radical, electronic reinvention of ancient North African music.
Sexta, 26 de Julho
Avalanche Kaito
A Burkinabe urban griot (vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Kaito Winse) meets a Brussels noise post-punk duo (Drummer/dataist Benjamin Chaval and guitarist Nico Gitto). It’s a completely new alloy and a huge opportunity to deconstruct both traditional and futurist knowledge. An unruly and unforgettable sonic explosion created by the intersection of wayward travellers.
A Place to Bury Strangers
In 2003, Brooklyn’s A Place To Bury Strangers emerged on the scene out of Oliver Ackermann’s psychotropic vision. Often cited as ‘ the loudest band in New York’, APTBS is known for their vicious live performances overloaded with all-consuming visuals, experimental sonic warfare, and treacherous stage destruction. On record, it is pop hooks layered with the sounds of broken machinery and syrup.
Polaroit
Space and time both play a role in polaroit’s music. A felt connection to Jonas and Marius’ hometowns in Northern Germany, their geography, as well as a sense of pertaining to a specific instant in time, a generation, are both expressed in the duo’s strain of melodic deep house, “We see our music as a snapshot of time and music,” they say.
Key milestones in their career are marked by collaborations with labels like Deutsche Grammophon, Stil vor Talent and Ki Records, as well as projects with Cercle-including the breathtaking video filmed in India for Backwaters. polaroit’s collaboration with the innovative project Techno Marching Band MEUTE resulted in the track Verden showcasing their penchant for breaking boundaries through innovative projects.
Sábado, dia 27 de Julho
Holocausto Canibal
Unanimously considered the most extreme and well known Portuguese Death Gore Grind outfit on the scene today, the intentions of this band have always been the same… sheer ultimate brutality without compromising originality. Infamous for their awesome live shows with gore choreographies [mostly as headliner on underground festivals] and the absolutely sick covers [put even hardened eyes to a severe test], lead the band to quickly achieve a respected cult status in their native country as well as different other countries with a really strong and ever growing fan base.
Chico da Tina
millennial portuguese trapstar
Awesome Tapes from Africa
Since 2006, Brian Shimkovitz’s Awesome Tapes From Africa blog has been shedding light on obscure and wonderful sounds from across the continent. As a DJ he brings the blog to life with 2-3 hour sets blending folkloric pop, left-field dancefloor gems and hip-hop bangers. Traveling from club to festival to DIY space, Awesome Tapes DJ sets celebrate the music and musicians whose cassettes Shimkovitz has collected over the years. In 2011, ATFA developed into a critically acclaimed label, re-releasing records by African artists including Ata Kak, Dur-Dur Band, Hailu Mergia and Penny Penny. His DJ sets on twin tape decks explore deep, regional sounds using analog-anchored agility not heard or seen anywhere else.