We Are Various radio organises monthly evenings with live concerts & dj set in the Bos bar of Het Bos in Antwerpen.
This wednesday 26.04 with Rebel Up SebCat on dj duties and live concert + Q&A with Kaito Winse (Burkina Faso), who will play his solo deep spiritual griot vibes. It will be livestreamed as well.
New Nightshop show online for January via Radio Campus Bruxelles. With songs of the day from Brazil, Peru, Argentina and London via South Africa. Our albums of the month are by experimental jazz trio Bog Bodies, Egyptian singer Maha and her 1979 arabic funk album, Israeli band Sababa 5 and their psychedelic exotica, Turkish singer Gaye Su Akyol and her psychedelic folkrock and Nigerian band Oriental Brothers International Band and their Igbo highlife music. Continuing with Electric Vocuhila and their Malagasy tsapiky sound, Mexican electro cumbia meets classical keys by Memo Pimiento, Algerian disco raï singles from the Maghreb K7 Club, Sarera & Blanc Manioc and their Mayotte island bass, Insula and their La Reunion maloya deep bass and finishing with RS Produçoes from Lisboa and their batida bass.
Tune in below!!
and in case you had missed, our #101 December show with a lot of great sounds. Songs of the day by Alicia Edelweiss and Ezra Collective on folky and afro funk vibes. 11 Albums of the month by Senegalese-Swedish group Wau Wau Collectif, desert psyche folk by Ak’Chamel, Kutiman with chill exotica soul & grooves, Guts with a powerful lineup of african & latin musicians, latin psychedelica vibes by Lola’s Dice, an anthology 2LP from Sao Tomé & Principe on Pedro Lima’s life and music and the religious electropop by Ghanaian singer Linda Ayupuka. Followed by female empowerment by Persian-Israeli singer Liraz, Al-Qasar and their urban arabic desert rock, French-Moroccan duo Alix Pilot & Ghizlane Melih and their arabic electrodub vibes and finishing with Iranian female producer Maral and her dark cut up electronics.
Rebel Up Nightshop show September online via Radio Campus Bruxelles, Groovalizacion Radio & Rhythm Passport. Songs by Jaimie Branch and KUTU. Albums by Yanna Momina (Glitterbeat Records), Kadef Abgi (Akuphone), BKO (Les Disques Bongo Joe), Carlos Niño & Friends (International Anthem), Compro Oro (Sdban Records), Meridian Brothers & Grupo Renacimiento (Ansonia Records), compilation A Guide to Western African Birdsong (Shika Shika) w/ Luka Productions ft Vieux Farka Touré, Acácia Maior ft Danae Estrela & Berlok, DJ Marfox, Amaliya Group (1000Hz Sacral Grooves), Torozebu project by Clap Clap & Domenico Candellori (Black Acre) and ZZK Records compilation vol. 4 w/ Pawkarmayta, QOQEQA & Galo Vermelho.
Here above is our agenda for rest of July + all of August. Rebel Up will take a 3 week break in Portugal, where SebCat will spin in Lisboa on sunday 24th and then at Boom Festival and Fora de Tempo festival.
Sunday 24 July, from 14-16h Portuguese time (15-17h Bxl time), SebCat will spin a session at Lusophonica radio in Cascais, bay of Lisboa. Tune into the livestream here.
Same day, from 19h – 23h, Rebel Up & Friends evening at Crew Hassan venue in Lisboa with SebCat & special guest Al-Jive Mestizo. FB event.
+3 hours of music with new worldwide sounds by Shabaka Hutchins, Moktar Gania, Rhabdomantic Orchestra, Daniel Villareal, Avalanche Kaito, Nu Genea, Balek Band, Romperayo, Maga Bo and Phelimuncasi.
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.