Rebel Up weekend 7, 8 – 10 July > Babylon Trio @ Pianofabriek, La Semo Festival (BE) & Festa Afro Tuga @ Festival de la Cité (Lausanne, CH)

on Thursday 7 july, Chaud 2.2 evening at GC Pianofabriek in St Gilles with Babylon Trio live concert, dj support by Rebel Up SebCat. from 18h30 until 22h30.

More info here.

Rebel Up SebCat plays a closing dj set on friday 8 july at La Semo Festival in the castle park of Enghien, after Bxl tropical wave band Steffig Raf. From midnight until 2am.

More info here.

on Sunday 10.07, Festa Afro Tuga hosts an evening at Festival de la Cité in the old cité of Lausanne in Switzerland. Rebel Up SebCat with Celeste Mariposa and funana band Riba D’Hora from 18h until 22h30. Puxa!!!!

More info here.

25.03 – 26.03 > Rebel Up weekend in France & Germany

This weekend Rebel Up will be in France and Germany.

Friday 25.03 in Charleville-Mezieres (FR) @ Wintergarten night in Le Forum by the Karlsstadt organisation.
A night with live concerts by Babylon Trio and Tootard, dj set by Rebel Up SebCat.

All info here or here.

On saturday 26.03, release party of the Muito Kaballa ‘Mamari Remixed’ 2LP in Cologne, Germany.

@ Niehler Freiheit autonomous venue, starting at 13h with workshops, dance, panel talks, concert by Muito Kaballa, dj sets by Rebel Up, Lua Preta, DJ Satelite, Catu Diosis, Rafael Aragon, Dr Kwest, Radio Frappé, Didi and more! party with us deep into the night 🙂

All info > FB event

Fri 27.08 > Babylon Trio & Rebel Up @ Microtunes Rat vs Pigeon, Pont de Cureghem (Recup Ton Quartier) Bxl

Micromarché, Werkplaats Walter & Recup Ton Quartier present: Microtunes closing party.

Concerts by Babylon Trio (Iraqi electronic trio from Bxl via Rebel Up), Boeiaka Boeika and Granvat. DJ sets by Rayon D’Soleil & Rebel Up SebCat. Also dance workshop, food & drinks! FREE IN

TIMETABLE;
16h00 – 18h00: Rayon D’Soleil (DJ SET)
18h00 – 19h00: House & HipHop Dance Workshop with Samantha Mavinga (WORKSHOP)
19h00 – 19h30: Boeiaka Boeiaka (CONCERT)
19h30 – 20h00: SebCat Rebel Up (DJ SET)
20h00 – 20h30: Babylon Trio (CONCERT)
20h30 – 22h00: GRANVAT (PARTY)

FB event
@ corner of Pont de Curegem / Kuregembrug and Rue Wayez.

Sat 12 Oct: Babylon Trio & Rebel Up @ Habiter L’Exil, Pointculture Botanique, Bxl

Habiter l’Exil (Living in Exile) festival at Pointculture Botanique.
with screenings, expo, concerts and more. FREE IN!
On Saturday 12 oct, Rebel Up & Babylon Trio will participate in the musical programme in the event.

Doors 14h :

Expo:
Mapa Mundi : animations by MEDEX – Musée éphémère de l’exil
La Petite Maison : Occupational Mapping and Dissemination “Migrants’ house news, by » Universal Embassy.

Programme:

14h00 | Être, venir, aller – radiophonic creation by Caroline Berliner. Production : Le Bruit et la fureur asbl.
15h00 | Projection of the short movie Classe 3 by le Ciré
16h00 | Projection of the film V(n)ous by Pierre Schonbrodt by Medex
17h30 | Plateforme Citoyenne presents ‘Pearls of welcome’, testimonials and experiences by refugee hosts, and a panel talk with 3 refugee hosts.
18h30 | Theater play ‘Le Chef est chef, même en caleçon’, by Dominique Bela
19h30 | Dinner buffet by Medex with DJ set Rebel Up SebCat
21h00 | Concert Babylon Trio (Irak)
22h00 | DJ Set Rebel Up SebCat

with the support of: PointCulture, Le Cinéma-Aventure, La Bellone, Culture & Démocratie, CBAI, Gsara, La Petite Maison, Centre Librex, Medex, Plateforme Citoyenne, Rebel Up!, United Stages et Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.

all info > FB event / website Pointculture

FREE IN @ Piontculture Bruxelles Botanique
Rue Royale 145

Wednesday 17 July: Babylon Trio @ Zomer Van Antwerpen, Muziek in de Wijk, Stuivenbergplein, Antwerpen

hello hello Antwerpen!

This tuesday evening, Babylon Trio will finally play Antwerpen for the 1st time (yes Antwerpen is very late to the electro arabic sound, we must admit). Respect to Zomer van Antwerpen / Muziek in de Wijk and the folks of Het Oude Badhuis for putting them in their programme.

Catch them live at during the Muziek in the Wijk evening at Stuivenbergplein in Antwerpen Noord. They will play from 18h30 to 19h30, followed by Algerian female chaabi singer Djazia Satour who plays at 20h. Promises to be a special arabic sound evening!

FB event / website

@ Stuivenbergplein
Antwerpen Noord

Sat 6 April > Babylon Trio @ Tweetak Festival, Yallah Yallah night, ‘t Neude, Utrecht

Saturday 6 april, Babylon Trio will play on the Yallah Yallah night at Tweetakt festival in Utrecht!

Great lineup with Egyptian hiphop, Moroccan gnawa beats, Pan-Arabic sounds and more.

20h30 > Prace feat. Chaimaa Rochdi
(Morocco/NL)
21h > Disco Arabesquou DJ
21h45 > Babylon Trio (Irak/BE)
22h30 > Yallah Yallah DJ’s
23h15 > Bu Kholtoum (Egypt)

@ Neude square
Tickets: 7,50 €
See full info >
FB event / website






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

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