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Babylon Trio – Habibi > Out now on Rebel Up Records as vinyl LP + digital!

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the debut album ‘Habibi‘ by Babylon Trio is out now on Rebel Up Records (RUP006)

The current political state of Iraq is a far cry from what the Iraqi people envisioned. While the western media have largely stopped reporting about Iraq, in the past few months many protests have flared up in the capital Baghdad, Basra and cities allover the country. Persistent water shortages, power cuts, the lack of work and political corruption have angered the Iraqi population and protests have been the general order of the day and increasing by the month. The political elite has dug themselves in, protected and comfortable in governmental compounds, ordering police and the armed forces to crack down on protests with a shoot to kill on sight policy. In 2015, this ignited the first big emigration wave of young people and families leaving Iraq for neighbouring countries and the west and continues to do so. For many, returning seems very unlikely for the time being.

The three Iraqi musicians of Babylon Trio arrived in Belgium in 2015 as refugees of this political and social unrest. Arkan Mushtak is the composer and pinnacle of the band. Like the other members he hails from Baghdad, where from a young age onwards he has been shaped into a talented keyboard and piano player by Iraqi master composer Noor Sabah. He is accompanied by fellow musicians Saif Al-Qaissy (digital percussion, djarbouka and backing vocals) and singer Walaa Saad (vocals) and occasionally joined by Mohammed Algareb (guest percussion).

Babylon Trio plays an electrified mix of contemporary Iraqi and Arabic music styles, such as choubi choubi, dabke, maqam and electronic hybrids that put the dancefloor on fire. The trio’s debut album “Habibi” features songs about their old life in Iraq and new life in Brussels, Belgium, with topics such as separation from loved ones, love, beauty, honour and pure Arabic party bangers. This year will mark the power of the contemporary Iraqi street sound of Babylon Trio throughout Europe and beyond. Get ready for fire!

Tracklisting:
A
1. Bye Bye My Love ( وداعا يا حبيبي )
2. Iraqi Dabka Choubi ( چوبي عراقي )
3. Spoiled For Your Eyes ( لاجل عيونك / مدلل )
B
4. Difficult Separation ( فركتك صعبة )
5. Iraqi Prestige ( المعزوفة )
6. My Crazy Lover ( حبيبتي المجنونة )
7. The Euro Syrian Dabka ( الدبكة السورية الاوربية )
8. Habibi Trio Mix (Rebel Up Duckfood remix) ( مزيج حبيبي الثلاثي )

Released by Rebel Up Records on 26 september 2018.

Out on vinyl LP in coated cover design, buy on the Rebel Up webshop or via Bandcamp
buy digital album via Bandcamp.
distribution worldwide: N.E.W.S

This album has been made with the support of NGHE Mediatheque, cultural venue Les Ateliers Claus, Angstrom studio and Soylent Green studio in Brussels and everyone who has supported Babylon Trio in the past year, promoting, motivating and organising concerts for them.

produced by Seb Bassleer for Rebel Up Records
recorded at Angstrom Studio by Aymeric de Tapol & Nicolus Ripitus
mixed at Soylent Green Studio by Aymeric de Tapol
mastered by Frederic Alstadt at Angstrom Studio
cover design ‘Tapis’ by Kalām Collectif (facebook.com/kalamshift)
photo (backcover) by Robert Kroos (flickr.com/mentalyouth)
graphic design by Vanessa Verbeiren

thu 20 + friday 21 sept: Rebel Up @ Kiosk Radio & Recyclart courtyard session, Bxl

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hello Brussels,

this thursday 20th, there will be another live session of Rebel Up & Friends @ Kiosk Radio from 16-18h, with special guest Andres R (Venezuela) and a set of latin bass. Expect eclectic vinyl sounds from the Rebel Up side. Come join us on the park terrace for an apero drink or follow the set on the livestream via Kiosk Radio site or Rebel Up FB.


Friday 21st, Rebel Up SebCat will play in the courtyard of the new Recyclart in Molenbeek, together with DJ Charlotte PéPé. The courtyard sessions are the moment to get to know the new Recyclart venue in the Rue De Manchester, as a sort of get together apero session. Be sure that we will take you for a ride of global & eclectic sounds!

FB event

from 17-22h, FREE IN
@ Recyclart
Rue de Manchester 13

Sun 16 sept > Rebel Up curates Global Street Sounds, Ancienne Belgique, Brussels

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Global Street Sounds is a DIVERSE and FREE party on sunday 16 sept during the car free sunday. After the summer vacation, time to kick of the new season and stir up all the senses again with a unique mix of music, culinary excursions, animation and attractions..

Rebel Up helped curating the street programme, with DJ’s and live acts. From the afternoon onwards, in and around the entire Steenstraat, in and aside the AB, this time with the Main Hall occupied by Ifriqiyya Electrique, and Jupiter & Okwess.

In the street, the block party will be fired up with global beats from all corners by DJ’s of Drache Musicale, Ill Syll and Lowup.

in the street, outernational bands like Wahati Soul (in Mr Ego), Da Pemba (at Electrocution) and Stalin Black (Music Village) will play, and also Flemish-Moroccan culture venue Darna will have live Brussels gnawa band Black Koyo and Radio Martiko DJ’s playing during the day.

Timetable > > >
14:00 – 15:10 Steenstraat – DJ IllSyll
14:30 – 15:20 Darna – Gnawa Black Koyo
15:10 – 16:00 Main Hall – Ifriqiyya Electrique
16:00 – 16:50 The Music Village – Stalin Black
16:00 – 18:00 Steenstraat – Drache Musicale DJ’s
16:15 – 17:00 Darna – Radio Martiko DJ’s
16:45 – 17:30 Mr. Ego – Wahati Soul
17:30 – 18:10 Ketch’Up – Da Pemba
18:00 – 19:30 Main Hall – Jupiter & Okwess
19:30 – 22:30 Steenstraat – LowUp DJ’s

see you around! 🙂

all info > FB event / website NL /  FR / ENG.
from 14h30 til midnight @ Ancienne Belgique, side of Steenstraat / Rue des Pierres

Fri 24 aug > Rebel Up @ Courtyard session TBC + Fiesta Latina festival, Bxl

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and friday, more Rebel Up fun in Brussels before we leave to Morocco for 2 weeks on summer tour.

From 18:00 to 21:30, we will play at a courtyard opening session in Molenbeek, exact location and venue + FB event to be confirmed in next days, watch this space!

And from 23:00 to 0:15 we will continue at Fiesta Latina festival in Bois de la Cambre. For the first time, we will play together with Cuban percussionist Victor Hugo on stage next to us, who will provide extra beats during our dj set. Also our dj buddy Pedrolito of Muevelo will spin after us. Fuego puro!
all info, tickets and programme of the 3 day Fiesta Latina festival (fri-sunday).
see FB event or website.

Fri 27 july > Rebel Up @ Giraffes & Penguins w/ Maga Bo, l’Uzinne, Bxl

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🌶🎵 GL🌎BAL UNDERGR🌎UND 🎵🌶

Giraffes, penguins and other global party animals, get ready! An amazing musical globetrotter will bring us the perfect vibes to go with this tropical Belgian summer!

Relentlessly traveling the world as DJ, producer and ethnomusicologist, MAGA BO is on tour in Europe this summer and will make a stop at L’uZinne. His performances are so eclectic and impregnated with so many musical cultures that we cannot predict what will happen. All we can say is that he knows hundreds of ways to make us sweat 🙂

But that’s not all! Four other global DJ’s will also guide you through this global underground trip: LeBlanc from Rebel Up, Radio Frappè, Dragan and Le Grand Méchant Loop.

Expect also to get lost in a crazy labyrinth set up by HeyLàBas and to enjoy a nice pay-as-you-like meal prepared by Up Cooking.

〰🔅〰 MAGA BO (Rio de Janeiro) 〰🔅〰
Maga Bo is an internationally acclaimed musician and dj working with a collision of styles, sounds, location recordings from all continents and beats that have yet to be classified. Naturalized in Brazil, he has worked in over 40 countries in Africa, Asia, North and South America and Europe including performances at major festivals such as the Sydney Festival in Australia, an official showcase at WOMEX in Copenhagen, The Chicago World Music Festival, Club Transmediale in Berlin and the RIFF festival in Jodhpur, India. His collaborators range from Mulatu Astatke, Issa Bagayogo, to Marcelo Yuka and BNegão to Dr. Das (Asian Dub Foundation) and Kalaf (Buraka Som Sistema). In 2010 alone, he shared the stage with Tony Allen, Yousou N’dour, Buraka Som Sistema, Choc Quib Town, and Staff Benda Bilili. His music has been released on Tru-Thoughts, Ninja Tune, Soot Records, WordSound, Cumbancha, African Dope Records, numerous compilations as well as film and television soundtracks.
https://soundcloud.com/magabo
https://www.youtube.com/user/magabo

〰🔅〰 LeBlanc (Rebel Up) 〰🔅〰
Brussels based dj LeBlanc has been collecting and playing non western dance music for 15 years and teamed up with Sebcat in 2010 to further develop the mission of Rebel Up!, throwing eclectic dj sets, mixtapes and parties, exploring Latin American, African, Asian and Arabic traditional and electronic dance music. At Recyclart, he was resident dj and coprogrammer of the legendary Nightshop Parties from 2009-2014.
https://www.mixcloud.com/TSC/
http://soundcloud.com/darcyrandleblanc
http://www.rebelup.org/
https://www.mixcloud.com/Rebel_Uppa/
https://www.mixcloud.com/RebelUpNightshop/

〰🔅〰 Radio Frappè 〰🔅〰
Maastricht originated project, the duo from Radio Frappè is now settled in Brussels to spread the good vibes. Radio hosts, event curators and DJs, they will make you bounce on the global sounds that make their universe: from brazilian mpb and sambass to heavy african rythms, from tasty dub to carribean melodies, Radio Frappè will make you travel through time and space, and deconstruct the notion of borders.
https://www.mixcloud.com/RadioFrappe/

〰🔅〰 Dragan (Radio Panik) 〰🔅〰
Since the age of 16, Dragan has been listening to and playing a broad range of genres, from jazz to techno, from afrodisco classics to global beats. Not belonging to any particular tribe, he shares a sense of freedom and escapism with some of his heroes such as Dj Marcelle and Lefto. After his break, he’s been busy spinning in various places such as Urban Spree Berlin, Esperanzah! festival, Vk Concerts, LaVallée, Giraffes and Penguins, Bonnefooi… Every first Saturday of the month, Dragan hosts a show on Radio Panik 105.4 FM, named Flux Tendu. As the name suggests, this is an exploration through thin relations between tracks, a sort of musical cadavre exquis.
mixcloud.com/VanMarkic/
radiopanik.org/emissions/flux-tendu/

〰🔅〰 Le Grand Méchant Loop 〰🔅〰
“I prefer to make the little pigs dance rather than eat them!”
Le Grand Méchant Loop is global underground DJ and percussionist based in Brussels. He shares his passion for global music through the Giraffes & Penguins events that he has been organizing since 2017. He will take us on a surprising journey, spiced up with live percussion, where the genuine sounds of kologo, zurna, ferrinho and gwoka blend to create the kind of groove that can only be explained on a dancefloor!
https://www.facebook.com/LeGrandMechantLoop/videos/881961011963103/
https://www.mixcloud.com/LeGrandMechantLoop/groovy-trip-1/

Come with lots of energy and bring your craziest moves 🙂

FB event
Entrance 5€ !!Cash only!! /// Doors 10pm
Metro 2/6 >> Delacroix

Fri 29 June > Rebel Up @ Rumbatown III, De Koer, Anderlecht

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this friday, a new edition of Rumba Town festival, filled with rumba Catalana, flamenco and more.

Friday 29 june, in collaboration with cultural summer space de Koer,

programme rolls like this >
– 16h: Workshop *Make your own cajon*
(Soon more info, limited places) + *info below.
-18h: RUMBAJAM (Bring your guitar or any other instrument, we bring the lyrics and the chords).
– 19h Dj Miguel Menéndez (Rumba Hispano Belga) (ES)+ Rebel Up SebCat
– 21h: Live concert D.kanal (CAT)

Free Entrance

FB event

@ De Koer
Dapperheidsplein 21, 1070 Anderlecht.

Tue 1 May > Rebel Up @ MayDay Sit-Nic, Parc Maximilien, Bxl

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Tomorrow a very special MayDay event, real social instead of just socialist.
A day in support of the refugees and those in-transit who inhabit Parc Maximilien and the area around North station.

The Civic Platform for the aid of refugees in Brussels invites you to come together to the Maximilian Park during a day dedicated to sharing and meeting.
Drivers, Citizens’ taxis, Host families, hostesses and hosts, who offers support, calls and all solidarity citizens: everyone welcome!

Somehow you have been touched by the unique humanitarian movement of the Civic Platform and do you want to show that you do not agree with the current migration policy in Belgium and Europe? Do you belong to those who ask for a solidary Belgium that respects human rights?

Then come together on Tuesday 1 May between 2 and 10 pm at Maximiliaanpark, opposite Antwerpsesteenweg 59, 1000 Brussels.

Programme
14h – citizens reception in the park (food trucks, bouncy castles, mini football, stage, tent, BBQ, …)
18h – press conference in the park: presentation of the actions of the Civic Platform (balance + future)

WHAT ?!
Various activities:
– magic
– mini football tournament
– bouncy castles
– street performances
– concerts
– dj sets

Timetable of concerts > > >
14h – Jaune Toujours 🎶
14h45 – Aide moi (Che Cirque & theater) 🎪
15h15 – Concino Festa 🎶
16h45 – Dance Divine 🎶
17h – La Bastarda Company 🎪
17h30 – Les Royales Marionnettes 🎪
18h – Conférence de presse 🤜🏿🤛🏻
19h15 – PANG 🎶
20h45 – Diyei Pituto & Rebel Up SebCat 🎶
22h – STOP / FINI / BASTA ! 🙁

All info > FB event
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