This saturday evening / night, Rebel Up SebCat @ Arumbo album release party in Trefpunt, Gent.
A night of rumba Catalana, flamenco, mestizo rock, cumbia, ska, oempapa, balkan and more!
Catalonia / Belgium based band Arumbo will launch their first full album ‘Camino de Vuelta’ Support by Shaman Festival (ska/oempapa/balkan & more)
AFTERPARTY until 5h with DJ´s Gudari, Feria Bomba & SebCat (Rebel Up!) world, mestizo, bass, cumbia, balkan, ska, roots & more
!Come early because their are only 100 entrances. No reservations! DOORS: 19h – 5am, concerts between 20h30 – 23h Entrance 10€ + Full album Arumbo included Organized in collaboration with bookings agency Number One Entertainment & Trefpunt.
Big thanks to those who came out in full force to our Festa Afro Tuga night, what an amazing night it was!
This thursday, Rebel Up SebCat & Drache Musicale will spin warm up & afterparty tunes at the album launch of Brussels based tuareg rock band Kel Assouf in Ancienne Belgique. On friday 15 feb their album ‘Black Tenere’ will be released on the international label Glitterbeat, so this is the true avant premiere!
About that: After their acclaimed album Tikounen, Kel Assouf return with an even more transformative collection: Black Tenere. Produced by the band’s keyboardist Sofyann Ben Youssef, the mastermind behind the highly touted AMMAR 808, the new album strips things back to a power trio lineup and focuses on the crackling, forward-looking energy of Nigerien front man Anana Ag Haroun’s next level Kel Tamashek (Tuareg) rock songs, aided by percussionist Olivier Penu. Listen here to the opening tune or check out this live video from a few months ago.
This special Festa Afro Tuga winter edition night is our biggest up to now, with a funana live band from Cabo Verde / Lisboa, Afro Portuguese DJ’s from Lisboa and a string of local Bxl DJ’s.
Listen here to our Rebel Up radio show on Bruzz (tuesday) with a a special focus on the Festa Afro Tuga >
Silvino Branca Trio * live funaná * (Cabo Verde/Lisboa) Born in the neighbourhood of S. Domingos (Santiago island, Cabo Verde), Silvino Branca is an important figure in modern funaná, part of the generation that inherited the sound of Codé di Dona, Sema Lopi, Julinho, Bitori or Tchota Suari. Like them, Silvino Branca is a ‘homi di gaita’ (accordion man) and fully embodies the new funaná generation raised in the ghettos of Cabo Verde, where he started playing at the tender age of 7. With the inspiration and influence of the old masters, he brings traditional funaná in its newest accelerated style: Cotxi Pó. A wild mix of shorter funaná accordion melodies with abrupt changes and more obvious hypnotism, dropping lyrics and references to times of poverty, drought and persecution experienced by the previous generation. These roots, strength and muscle have made the Cotchi Pó style extremely popular in Cabo Verde. Silvino is joined by bass guitar player Carlos da Veiga (Julinho da Concertina / Pedrinho band) and his wife Maria Das Dores Diop on ferro. Their Cotxi Pó sound is feverishly psychedelic with long trance-like compositions, the pace never slows down. Can you keep up? Puxa! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=codTLJyjNpo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y29W4pvANAk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fn2Zkk_jr4
CelesteMariposa (Lisboa) Wilson Vilares aka Celeste Mariposa started out in the techno scene but the powerful music of the PALOP countries lured him in and he became a true connoisseur of Luso-African music from Angola & Cabo Verde, Guinee Bissau, Sao Tomé and Lisboa. Celeste Mariposa is also a label imprint, releasing talented Luso-African artists living in the Lisboa area such as Chalo Correia and Julinho da Concertina (both played in Bxl the last few years). Expect psychedelic roots funaná, colafunk, electro passada, semba, rebita, kizomba roots and much more! https://soundcloud.com/celestemariposa
DJ Kolt (Lisboa/Sao Tomé / Príncipe Discos) Adjalme Noronha aka Kolt is the founding member of the Blacksea Não Maya crew from Lisboa on the other side of the Tejo river, known as Margem Sul. Together with Dj Perigoso, Dj Joker and his younger brother Noronha they have released 2 LP’s on the crunching Principe Discos label from Lisboa. The Blacksea Não Maya sound is an urban blend of Afro Portuguese ghetto beats, spanking percussion and electronic tones, like slower funaná crossed with the rudiments of kuduro, tarraxo and socopé rumba. His younger brother DJ Noronha played at our Festa Afro Tuga #2 night in 2017 and halfway his set the Brussels police stopped the party. that’s how wild it got. This time Kolt will take us till the end! https://soundcloud.com/black-ea-n-o-maya https://principediscos.bandcamp.com/album/calor-no-frioo-2
Phonetics (54Kolektiv) 54K crew are known in Brussels for their open eclectic parties combined with urban & social activism allover the city, where they counter against empty real estate, racism and human rights. Phonetics is one our brothers who understands the Afro Tuga vibe, playing all between kuduro, afrohouse and the current Afro Lisboa sound. https://soundcloud.com/dj-phonetics/freestyle-afro-mix
Rebel Up Gato Seb (Bxl) Brussels global crew Rebel Up! is no secret with eclectic global nights allover town, their monthly radio show Nightshop and Kiosk Radio sessions and their international label. Expect some hot warming up & heating down in Luso African spheres, from vintage sounds to contemporary LX beats, batidas & funanas do guetto, PALOP style. https://www.rebelup.org/ https://www.mixcloud.com/PALetSECAM/sebcat-at-pan-amafropeans-sexyland-amsterdam-dj-set/
Le Grand Méchant Loop (Bxl) Founder of the Giraffes & Penguins party who will take us on a surprising journey, spiced up with the genuine PALOP sounds of ferrinho and gwoka blend to create the kind of groove that can only be explained on a dancefloor! https://www.mixcloud.com/LeGrandM%C3%A9chantLoop
Calacas DJ’s DJ duo from Mechelen who are rabid vinyls collectors of all sounds Afro, tropical and PALOP. Expect the finest vinyl tunes from Cabo Verde to Guinné Bissau, Angola, & Sao Tomé. Wild! https://www.mixcloud.com/Calacasdj
CABO VERDE FOOD FROM 20H – 22H30 > CACHUPA!!! Nilza our Cabo Verdian chef friend, will cook a typical Cabo Verde dish. Cachupa is the national stew of slow cooked corn (hominy), beans, sweet potato and meat. Perfect for a night of heavy party. Price: 12 € Please reserve / reservez svp! BEFORE THURSDAY AFTERNOON as the Portuguese say: Quem nao reserva come restos. RESERVATIONS: dianabamaro@gmail.com
+ local artisanal beers for 2€ / 3€ + Cabo Verdean grog & ponche shots + snacks during the night + Chill out space + Thai massage corner + VJ mapping by Maria Ilia + Heavy Afro Tuga sound
This friday, an Brazilian traditional electronic night at Recyclart!
Sociedade Recreativa arose from the meeting between Maga Bo and the French-Brazilian trio ‘Forro de rebeca’. Lovely airy music (live accordion and violin) from the tradition of the Nordeste (Samba de Coco, Capoeira, Baiao, Maracatu …) discrete but deadly effective mixed with the electronics of Maga Bo. https://sociedaderecreativa.bandcamp.com
closing the night with an electro-roots set > Maga Bo needs no introduction: one of the ‘founding fathers’ of the tropical bass, drenched deep in Brazilian rhythms (maracatu, samba reggae, capoeira …), with dark bass lines and thick layers of percussion. An example of a fluid interaction between organic and electronic sounds, inspired by hip hop and the soundsystem culture – but also by the middle east and the rest of your earthquake. https://magabo.com
Support by Rebel Up SebCat into Afro Brazilian roots & electronic spheres.
20:00 Doors & Rebel Up SebCat 21:00 Sociedade Recreativa 22:15 Maga Bo 6€
Tune in this thursday afternoon for another Rebel Up & Friends live session at Kiosk Radio, from 16 to 18h. SebCat will be joined by special guest Celeste Mariposa from Lisboa. Expect a lot of Festa Afro Tuga sounds to promote our big party on saturday. Palop power, puxaaaa!
Désir & Fiorini launch their album at the W:Hall concert hall in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre. Their rhythmical and melodic vodou explorations between piano and jazz. Haitian creole poetry is still food for the soul. Their album is released on El Negocito Records. https://elnegocito.bandcamp.com/album/yo-anpil
Haitian soft, trad and jazzy sounds by Rebel Up SebCat before & after the concert.
From January 2019, apart from our Rebel Up Nightshop radio show, we also started doing a new radio show on BRUZZ radio, every week on tuesday night from 23:00 to midnight. DJ SebCat and Rico Medeiros will play the latest global releases and sounds, with particular focus on the Brussels and Belgian scene, with special guests, mixtapes and also a Brussels cultural agenda every week. Are you ready to travel? Tune in here > https://www.bruzz.be/live#listen
