Rebel Up Weekend action 10-11 june

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Friday 10.06 from 18-22h > Rebel Up SebCat will spin tunes at Parckfarm Tour & Taxis with Fresh Nunas for Building Beyond Borders festival > free open air event + food + projection, check info here.

followed by NL + BE action on saturday!

Saturday NL + BE action.

SebCat will be playing a set at Best Kept Secret Festival in southern Netherlands with the Kiosk Radio family at the Coney Island stage (set time 16-18h) with Bibi Seck, Bona Lea, Many Pixel, Mickey b2b Jim, Le Motel b2b DJ JM, Sofa and Narathip. All info here.

In the evening back to Bxl for the amazing Yoppeleyeppe #4 rave party for Borgofuturo festival in L’Accroche, with concerts, social panel talks and afterparty!
Afterparty with a great lineup >>> Guido Minisky (Acid Arab), Tropical DJipsies, Rafael Aragon and LuzAlta and more. Event here.

See you around dears!

New radio shows & sessions online > Rebel Up Nightshop, Kiosk Radio & BRUZZ

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Here some of our latest radio shows and sessions from May & June!

Starting with our Rebel Up & Friends session @ Kiosk Radio

June > Rebel Up SebCat & SELAY (1st hour / 2nd hour)
selections between dub, greek folk, turkish psychedelica, maghreb bass, oriental deephouse and more…

May > Rebel Up SebCat & Lady Conscious Be (1st hour / 2nd hour)
selections between jazz, dub, psychedelica, roots reggae, rocksteady and more…

Our Rebel Up Nightshop show from May via Radio Campus Bruxelles.
Selections from La Reunion to Senegal, Brazil, Colombia, Turkey, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda and beyond. Tune in here.
Check previous shows here.

And our weekly show on BRUZZ radio, in the last few weeks we had interviews with Les Freres Jackfruit, Muito Kaballa, Sahad, Hazem B and a mixtape by Rafael Aragon.

Check all shows archived here.

Friday 27 & Saturday 28 may > Giraffes & Penguins Arab Bass night @ VK Vaartkapoen + Rebel Up & Friends @ Brussels Jazz Weekend afterparty, Le Reservoir Bar

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Rebel Up weekend action once more!

On Friday we organise our 1st big Giraffes & Penguins party again since +2 years in the VK Vaartkapoen venue in Molenbeek. An Arab Bass night with artists from the Maghreb, Syria and Brussels.

We have a great lineup for you, with live sets by 2 special guests Rizan Said (keyboard player & composer of Omar Souleyman / Syria) and the percussive electronics by NURI (Tunisia / Shouka label). Also dj sets by local spinners Hiskhek Bishek, Tropical DJipsies, Rebel Up SebCat and Le Grand Mechant Loop as well as visuals by VJ Jan Vorst.

It will be a wild night and deep dive into the large pool of electronic arabic worldwide sounds.

Get your ticket in presale and skip the queue: 8€
Otherwise it’s 11€ at the door and possible queues.

Doors 21H
Rizan Said live set around 23h, so get in on time!

FB event / VK website

@ VK Vaartkapoen
Manchesterstraat 13-15
Mole

On Saturday 28th, Rebel Up & Friends for the Brussels Jazz Weekend at the Reservoir bar in the Marolles.

2 levels of DJ’s in the bar & basement, vinyl and digital alike.
with special guest DJ Eggs Legs from Brighton (UK), band leader of King Lagoon’s Flying Swordfish Dance Band and who will play a live DJ set w/ percussion.
Joined by Freedo Figh & Roza (54K Sound), Didi (Tropical DJipsies), RaQL and SebCat.

20h – 4am
204 Rue Haute
Free in!
FB event

Saturday 21 May > Rebel Up @ Globaal Illegaal, Printemps Ravie afterparty, Bollinckx (Brasserie Illegaal), Bxl

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Global Illegaal: a new global party @ Bollinckx (Brasserie Illegaal) by Rebel Up
Afterparty for Printemps Ravie festival between Ravie & Rebel Up on saturday 21 may.

Complete programme of the 3 days of Printemps Ravie >>>
https://www.facebook.com/events/1177719586122153

Programme:

23h30 Alizarina Quartet live (Breizh / FR)

Alizarina is a red pigment extracted from a vegetable root: The madder of the dyers. Alizarina is lively, it moves, it’s organic, floral and poetic. Alizarina Quartet offers compositions inspired by traditional elements, a sonic epic from Brittany to Romania, sometimes infused with oriental warmth. or South American. Everything is always guided by the clarinet with klezmer and classical accents. An electronic carpet supports and energizes the acoustic timbres of the strings and wraps itself in a frank and lively rhythm. An energetic electronic sound that sublimates the acoustic, classical and traditional influences of the world, aided by poetic texts anchored in the current era.
https://alizarina.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53BDPAMrSJI

DJ’s >
Rebel Up
Tropical DJipsies
Drache Musicale

FB event here
Entry by donation (5€ advised)
22h30 – 4h30

Rue Bollinckx 300
1190 Forest

12 – 14 May > Rebel Up tour in Switzerland with Babylon Trio

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Hey all,

Rebel Up & Babylon Trio will be on a mini tour in Switzerland.

here the dates:
thu 12.05 @ Bienne
fri 13.05 @ Le Rez Usine, Geneva, Fete de la Danse Dabke night with Rizan Said and more
sat 14.05 Rebel Up & Don Kapot @ Bongo Joe Records, Geneva

New release on Rebel Up out today 6 may! Muito Kaballa’s new album Little Child

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Since the release of the highly acclaimed album Mamari (2021), the Muito Kaballa project has continued to develop.

The new album Little Child is filled with jazz, grooves, funk, afrobeat, soul and electronic remixes.

The compostions on the album tackle complex social problems of today; starting with the hypocrisy of the European refugee policy on ‘Inside Outside’ with the proclaiming voice by German-Nigerian afrobeat activist singer Ade Bantu. ‘Dansez! Dansez!’ is an upbeat song with influence from Congo, Angola and Malian guitar music, with the sweet licks of Belgian guitarist Juresse Amie Tieti Ndombasi.

‘No=No’ has a clear message: “Don’t protect your daughter, educate your son” on the hot topic of sexual consent and shameful male behavior. The next song, ‘Memories’, reveals a completely different side of the band in lush jazz. “Keep in mind, it makes you blind, starring in the sun”

The 8 minute soft soul composition ‘Little Child’ is for comforting one’s own inner child, with beautiful solos played by Benjamin Schneider on guitar and Saskia-Marleen Dahms on trombone.

The album concludes with 4 remixes for the dancefloor, delivered by Belgian producer Kuna Maze, Polish/Angolan duo Lua Preta, French producer La Dame and Brazilian bass producer Badsista, tipping the remix balance into female positivity.

Below you can find the 2 videoclips of ‘Inside Outside’ and ‘Little Child’

Pre-order CD & 2LP vinyl here.

Rebel Up in Netherlands > thu 05.05 / fri 06.05 + sat 07.05

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Hello all!
After our night in OCCII, Rebel Up is staying in Netherlands for a bit longer and doing a ‘mini tour’ 😉

DJ sets on thursday, friday & saturday!

Thursday 5 May, which is liberation day in Netherlands, Rebel Up SebCat will play with Papelon Kifesh at the Kashmir Lounge coffeeshop bar. From 20h onwards.

@ Jan Pieter Heijestraat 85
Amsterdam (Overtoom / Vondelpark)
See event here.

On friday 06.05 Rebel Up SebCat will do a 2 hour session at the Oedipus beer Badhuis cafe for Oedipus Radio from 19 – 21h. Maybe with a special guest even. Come hang in the Oedipus old bathing house and taste their artisanal beers, or tune in via their online radio.

@ Javaplein 21
Amsterdam (Indische Buurt)

and on saturday 07.05, Cumbia Salvaje party by Baobab United in Nijmegen.

Place to be is Strandbar Stek, a beach right next to De Waal river.
A nice lineup with Brussels cumbia acts & dj’s > Memo Pimiento, Rafael Aragon, Rebel Up & Tropical DJipsies + Baobab Utd.

Door 19h30
See event here.

Beforehand around 17h / 18h, Rebel Up & Rafael Aragon will do a streaming session at Open Source Radio. Tune into the videostream here.