Drawing on Lebanon's social structure, they employ their body as a vocal and movement instrument. Noiré explores oral history, gossip, and nonverbal cues in their performances, accompanied by music to channel social and domestic structures. Investigating semantic satiation, Ghenwa delves into how daily expressions expand in function through repetition. In their work, they question how one could deal with everyday mental struggles and routines, or with the notion of the ‘self’.
Helmed by Black and Cherokee composer and multi-instrumentalist Takiaya Reed, Divide and Dissolve will release their new album, Insatiable, on April 18 via Bella Union. Divide and Dissolve's music is an acknowledgement of the dispossession that occurs due to colonial violence, it honours ancestors, opposes white supremacy and calls for indigenous sovereignty. Already legends on the international doom metal scene, the new album is an evolution of sound and intricacy. Strapped with thunderstorms of crashing cymbals, crunchy feedback, stomach-churning riffs and neo-classical inflections, the new collection delves into the idea of freedom through impermanence and destruction vs compassion, an urgent call to imagine a better world before it’s too late. Listen to it, digest it, and become insatiable.
Born in Kenya and raised in Uganda, MC Yallah has been in the East African underground hip-hop scene. For 25 years, her conscious, poetic and experimental style crept slowly into Uganda’s mainstream. MC Yallah will be delivering her rapid and tightly controlled flow alongside futuristic hip-hop, grime, punk and trap with Debmaster. MC Yallah’s lyrics draw from real-life experiences and often address women’s issues spreading a powerful message of integrity and self-determination, delivered in a range of languages including Kiswahili, Luganda, English and Luo.
YoungWoman: A rigorous sonic maximalist who thrives at the intersection of many musical realms while transcending them all. Her explosive energy combined with an irresistible playfulness always leaves her audience spellbound.
Rotterdam DJ Shahmaran draws inspiration from the Kurdish story of Shahmaran, a half-snake, half-woman with an uncompromising spirit. You can hear that in the adventurous sets on the cutting edge of tradition and experiment.
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