Jooklo duo + Dijit + enhancement (ben babbitt) + Wilted Woman & TBZ

meakusma aftermath:
After the Meakusma festival, some of its finest artists and selectors will be coming to Brussels to celebrate its aftermath!

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Jooklo Duo

“Blowing minds all over the world since 2004 with hundreds of charming performances and some cult records, Jooklo Duo (Virginia Genta on reeds, flutes, piano, percussion and David Vanzan on drums) keeps spreading their powerful and uniquely vibrant sound, deeply rooted in free jazz avant-garde but heavily influenced by traditional folk music, and at the same time open to extreme sound experiments.

Over the years the perpetual research for new and challenging combinations has led Genta and Vanzan to form a large variety of ensembles and to collaborate with artists as Bill Nace, Chris Corsano, Thurston Moore, Dror Feiler, Dylan Nyoukis, Hartmut Geerken, Stanley J. Zappa, Makoto Kawabata, Mette Rasmussen and many others.

The duo has also been working with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company alongside John Paul Jones and Takehisa Kosugi, performing for “Nearly Ninety” in main theatres in Madrid and London, and has been a long time favourite of emblematic figures such as Henry Rollins, WFMU radio, Wire, etc…”

https://virginiagenta.bandcamp.com/music
http://jooklo.altervista.org

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Dijit

Dijit is the stage name of the SWANA music producer Hashem L Kelesh, an electronic musician who is redefining cool without trying too hard. Stumbling into the music world by accident, juggling knobs and wires in a cluttered bedroom in Egypt’s surreal capital that inevitably inspired the unique, mashed up sound of his tunes, Dijit doesn’t chase the limelight. His performances are not about making delightful music or even making sense, but, rather, providing people with noise that reflects the community we live in. With a sly sense of humor and an ear for unique beats, Dijit keeps it real, reminding us that the perspective is often the most unassuming one.

https://dijit.bandcamp.com/album/tracksh
https://soundcloud.com/dijit

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enhancement (ben babbitt)

Ben Babbitt is a Los Angeles-based musician, producer and composer whose style incorporates experimental ambient music using synthesizers as well as live instruments. He is known for creating the score for the acclaimed video game Kentucky Route Zero, as well as the soundtrack for the Paris Window film. His site-specific performance Overflows for four vocalists and quadraphonic electronics, was presented at the Getty Museum in 2019. His music dwells in a hypnagogic contemporary noir lullaby, full of lingering dread and low lights. Electronics, strings, and percussion swoon and seethe in heady mirages of dreams and delirium, romance and menace. It is the stuff of warped romanticism and equally warped contemplation.

https://benbabbitt.bandcamp.com/

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Wilted Woman & TBZ

Wilted Woman is a producer whose left-field approach to electronic music emerges from an experimentally minded and refreshingly unapologetic attitude, forged on the punk and DIY scenes of the East Coast of the United States, and more recently, Berlin. Her music has been described as friendly industrial, derangement synth, stunning compositions and “music made to realign and confuse body and mind” – ever interesting and engaging, unpredictable, playful and intriguing.

TBZ is Tobias Jansen from Cologne, Germany. As a collaborator, he has taken on various roles including being the guiding force behind the (con)fusion music trio Montel Palmer, as well as shredding mobile phones with GRRRR and formerly serving as a scratch-sidekick in Devon Rexi, with work released on labels such as Planet Rescue, South Of North and Tax Free. As a solo artist, he has found a home on Amsterdam’s Brew Records. His solo solo performances are infrequent and unpredictable, yet consistently leave a lasting impression. Expect an amalgam of styles and tempi imbued with an outsider B-Boy mentality.

https://wiltedwoman.bandcamp.com/
https://tttbbbzzz.bandcamp.com/

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In collaboration with Meakusma.
www.meakusma.org