This friday Rebel Up SebCat in Madrid with the Guacamayo Tropical!
But event is sadly cancelled due to corona virus.
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Sat 21 Dec: Rebel Up SebCat @ Kumbélé concert Crix Cafe, Bxl
Last evening of the year in Crix Cafe
Fiesta CUMBIA with the Brussels band Kumbélé !
To complete the evening, el Tacomobil will be there from 19h to propose us their delicious tacos.
After the concert Rebel Up SebCat will take control of the sound!
to make you dance and dream to the sounds of its tropical turntables …
Kumbelé is a band with musicians from Brussels, France, El Salvador and Colombia that pay tribute to the afro-colombian folklore and it’s tropical orchestra by playing classicals from Lizandro Meza, Toto la Momposina, Petrona Martinez, Juaneco y su Combo, and others. A mix of musical knowledge joined together to create a festive atmosphere with the rhythm of the drums.
https://soundcloud.com/kumbele-belgique
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5€
doors 19h30 > concert @ 20h30
@ Crix Cafe
Rue Crix
1060 St Gilles
Wedn 30 Oct: Rebel Up @ Combo Chimbita concert, Beursschouwburg, Bxl
This wednesday evening @ Beursschouwburg: Storytelling, psychedelic punk and cumbia-not-cumbia. The future is tropical. Live concert by Colombian band Combo Chimbita.
The mysterious Combo Chimbita combines psychedelica, folk and a strong shot of punk to create what they call ‘tropical futurism’. The four first-generation New Yorkers from Colombia take inspiration from the musical traditions of South America, the Carribean and Africa, invoking the spiritual wisdom of our global ancestors through a melding of past and future. Their performances range from the hypnotically ritualistic to the darkly danceable, with the contralto voice of high priestess/frontwoman Caolina Oliveros supported by the groovy basslines, sharp synths, smouldering guitars and ecstatic drumming of her bandmates.
https://combochimbita.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXEEYLT1NIc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM093T8EMGQ
+ Rebel Up Dj’s & SudakahFlow (CO/ Bxl)
As part of the ‘We Love You’, a multidisciplinary programme on love beyond the romantic and the self – sep oct nov dec 2019.
tickets
€9 presale/ €12 at the door > bit.ly/combochimbitabsb
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Sat 8 June NL: Rebel Up Duckfood @ Pantropical x Cinema Colombiana, WORM, Rotterdam
This saturday, Cinema Colombiano teams up with Pantropical in WORM Rotterdam, for a party finale that continues into the small hours. Los Guaqueros, aka renowned DJ’s Mario ‘Gala’ Galeano (Los Pirañas, Frente Cumbiero, Ondatrópica) and Barba Roja, will open their treasure chest of rare vinyl for a unique musical trip through Colombia.
For more than a decade, Mario ‘Gala’ Galeano has been an innovator in the prolific music scene of Bogotá and Colombia at large. The dizzying range of projects he is active in includes Frente Cumbiero’s electronically-augmented vinyl archaeology, Ondatrópica’s Caribbean-Afrocolombian mash-up, and Los Pirañas’ Cumbia-surfpunk hybrid. Together with visual artist and fellow DJ/digger Mateo Rivano, Mario takes on the shape of Los Guaqueros (literally “The Looters”) – tomb raiders who dig their way through decrepit record vaults to find the gems of Colombia’s musical roots, aiming to reintroduce its unique rhythms and styles to audiences. See, hear & read more here.
Support by Rebel Up Duckfood.
23:00 – 04:00 | presale / door: €5,-
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Friday 23 Nov > Rebel Up @ concert night in BRASS w/ Los Orioles + Spiritczualic Enhancement Center, Bxl
Concert night on friday in BRASS cultural centre in Forest.
2 bands on the programme and 2 dj’s!
Los Orioles (CH)
Like a gang roaming the world, the seven Swiss musicians of Los Orioles seem to have used wherever they went: the cumbia in Colombia, the dub in Jamaica, the rhythms and the guitars of West Africa, but also the most alternative whimsical francophone songs (we think of the Brigitte Fontaine / Areski Belkacem duo). Sung, rapped or declaimed lyrics that wander in an endless reverb amidst a precious selection of grooves from around the world.
Spiritczualic Enhancement Center (DE/IS)
In their physical form, their existence lasted only two weeks, confined in an abandoned Ottoman building, at the foot of the walls of ancient Jerusalem. Today in exile, the Spiritczualic Enhancement Center is a free-beat resonance field, an evolving and eclectic set of different cities and countries – they prefer the term ‘international’.
In concert, four to ten musicians play a strange and ritual instrumental music, based on spontaneity and improvisation. After a series of concerts at the Fusion Festival (Germany), Outernational Days (Bucharest) and at the New Hamburg Festival, as well as in various concert venues in Europe, they have just announced three upcoming releases: ‘Transporting Salt’ on the American label Crash Symbols; ‘Who Corrupted Our Wave, Back in 1969?’ on the post-Babylonian label Kinship; and a vinyl, ‘Me and My Students Have Reached Higher Levels’ on the Paris label Akuphone, scheduled for early 2019.
+ DJ sets by Bxl dj’s Rebel Up SebCat & Viktor French
8€ presale / 10€ at door / 1,25€ (art.27) / 5€ (students / unemployed)
@ BRASS
Avenue Van Volxem 364
1190 Forest
Fri 9 June @ Out Loud Festival, Beursschouwburg Bxl, w/ Los Piranas & NOTS
Let’s celebrate 10 years of Out Loud festival @ Beursschouwburg
All concerts, parties and whatnot for free, on the rooftop terrace and in the silver room.
19:00 apéro concert
☞ Juicy (BE)
r&b covers
22:00
☞ Los Pirañas (CO)
Tropical noise & cumbia punk psychedelica from Colombia!
Trio with Eblis Alvarez (Meridian Brothers), Mario Galeano & Pedro Ojeda for a wild freakout > music
☞ NOTS (US)
All-female garage punk from Memphis, Tennessee, who create a poisonous and noisy mix of reverberating guitars, rockhard drums, synthesizers and group song.
☞ Rebel Up (BE) / DJ Stel-R (BE)
Afterparty dj-set of global psychedelica & beyond.
Sun 21 May > Rebel Up! @ Ancienne Belgique, Latin Day w/ Systema Solar (CO), La Chiva Gantiva (CO/Bxl), Orkesta Mendoza (MX) and La Negra Albina (ES/Bxl)
This sunday @ Ancienne Belgique > cumbia, mambo, rocknroll, countrytwang, champeta, etceterarara
SYSTEMA SOLAR is a crazy Colombian collective ‘from near the Caribbean’ and you might already know them from other nights & festivals? Apparently they will be bringing ‘berbenautika’ and that is then a cross between the champeta ‘pikos’ soundsystems and the ‘verbena’ parties!? Or, as they say: ‘Whatever. Party!’
LA CHIVA GANTIVA is also of Colombian origin but is known to dancing music-lovers as international, diverse, from Brussels, and even as ‘neighbour to AB’. In 2017, they finally release a 3rd album. We’re happy to repeat it too: with their extra tambore, alegre, llamador and maracones they are sure to get you back on the champeta, chirimia and mapalé!
ORKESTA MENDOZA gathers in Tucson, Arizona, and is linked to Calexico via their frontman Sergio Mendoza. Here is a phenomenally infectious mix of texmex, cumbia, mambo, merengue, ranchero, rock‘n’roll, country-twang, psychedelica & Perez Prado… The whole hot hog, wittily played with class, passion, and pleasure (and released on the brilliant Glitterbeat label!)
LA NEGRA ALBINA, our friend Paula Leon lead this group: as homebase Brussels – on the street or in parks if need be – but most definitely with Latin or Hispanic or South America roots, and what they present is quite simply extra-territorially enjoyable.
DJ support by
Rebel Up & Sugamix
15:00 doors
16:00 La Negra Albina
17:30 Orkesta Mendoza
19:00 La Chiva Gantiva
21:00 Systema Solar
22:30 end
15 € presale / door