the Contrabanda world night offers an excellent live band and dj’s to keep the party going the whole night. Live band of the night: East London musician A.J. Holmes (Hackney Empire) plays a marriage of afro-pop and soukous paired with traditional pop sensibilities and will play a special solo set in Bonnefooi on guitar, voice and dj decks at the same time for a unique approach to the swinging African sound. Curious? Do come and check it out and swing into the night with us.
Afterparty with global dance sounds from Rebel Up! Sondclash Dj’s and AJ Holmes!
finally it’s there after several attempts: our Congolese Rumba Special night on Saturday 24 august.
A whole night filled with marvelous vintage rumba & soukous sounds from Congo!
We’ll have 2 bands playing live on stage to fully lose yourself in this addictive rumba rock sound. Here the roll down > > >
Yan Koy & Kolor Rumba (CO/BE) (on poster)
This Congolese band from Brussels will play vintage Congolese rumba soukous songs from the 60’s to 80’s, led by vocalist Yan Koy along with master members such as Petit Poisson, Pappy Muntu, Alonzo Baba and several others who played in famous Congolese bands such as Franco’s OK Jazz, Zaiko Langa Langa and Ndombe. In a 2 hour live set they will play classic rumba songs and take you into the Congolese underbelly of tropical rock with psychedelic guitar solo’s, hypnotising percussion and polyphonic vocals. Not to be missed!
Orch. TP Jean Mikili (BE)
Belgian trio from Brussels that specialises in Congolese rumba with fresh indierock while keeping it real for all to swing and shuffle along to. It’s gonna be *Tout Puissant* for sure as perfect warm-up to Color Rumba!
dj’s Rebel Up! & friends
swinging African & latino sounds before & after the bands.
Profits on the night will go to Women’s Initiative for Gender Justice, a NGO fighting for the change of mentality for governments that consciously leave open sexual crimes unpunished. For more info about this organization, go to www.iccwomen.org or their twitter account @4GenderJustice.
Doors will already open at 22:00.
As we have 2 bands playing live, it´s 5€ in before 23:00h, but 7€ afterwards, so come early!
During the whole month of august, there are free musical evenings in the garden of the Elzenhof.
On Thu 22 august, Rebel Up! & Radio Campus host an evening with all kinda eclectic and global sounds by the Campus & Rebel Up! dj´s.
but also a live concert by local Brussels band Orch TP Jean Mikili!
This trio from Brussels specialises in Congolese rumba with fresh indierock while keeping it real for all to swing and shuffle to. It’s gonna be *Tout Puissant* for sure!
This sunday afternoon we will play at the Cactus Festival in Brugge!
We will play all kinda African sounds non-stop in the world food village near to the entrance from 12:00 to 18:00. Sunny n hot sounds ensured!
Also the Malian band Terakaft (ex-Tinariwen) is playing , as well as American dream pop band Beach House. More info on the Cactus site.
It´s that good summertime of the year again in Brussels; RECYCLART HOLIDAYS festival is kicking off once more, a much better option than Couleur Cafe, if we must say.
This Friday the 1st party of the festival will be a CUMBIA & SOUKOUS PARTY!!!
The evening rolls like this >
(outdoor dj set, for free)
22:00 > 23:00 CHICO PARANY (AR – dj)
“gypsy cumbia bass”
(then party starts inside the venue, only 5 euros in!)
01:00 > 03:00 YAN KOY & COLOR RUMBA (CG/BE – live)
“The real sound of Congolese rumba & soukous from Matongé, with legendary players like Petit Poisson from Zaïko Langa Langa. On descend!”
03:00 > 04:00 JEAN MIKILI & BRIAN HAINAUT (BE – dj)
“Vinyl selections of Congolese rumba & soukous.”
04:00 > 05:00 REBEL UP! LEBLANC (BE – dj)
“Old & new guitar & folk pop from the African continent.”
+ EXTRAS around/outside the venue:
19:00 > 01:00 Orgasmorama: exhibition of original filmposters from the Sexploitation cinema from the 50s, 60s & 70s (Vitrin 21)
21:00 > 02:00 Piz-Aziz: pizza for the people (outside)
21:00 > 02:00 BBQ Bike: Barbecue for the people (outside)
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ALL DETAILS ON WWW.RECYCLART.BE
This wednesday we’ll be dj-ing purely modern & vintage African sounds @ Kuumba cafe (the Flemish-African house) in the Matongé area for Festival Matongé Europe. We’ll be playing from around 20:00 til 23ish and it’s the afterparty of the parade, which starts at Kuumba at 18:00 and returns back around 20:00, check the festival website for more info.
It’s free in, so drop by and take in some couleur locale!
@ Kuumba
Vredestraat 35 Rue de la Paix
1050 Elsene/Ixelles
hope you had a fine xmas and are ready to celebrate New Years eve in a very special way.
this NYE night Rebel Up! Sebcat & friends will be dj-ing all night n morning long at Glacier Bélicia in Schaarbeek; yep, an ice cream shop!
while all other parties in the city cash in & overcharge people and put you into crammed hot rooms, it’s FREE IN at our party and with kindly priced artisanal Brussels beers (Brasserie de la Senne), yummy ice cream and even fresh waffles!
and all this on the fine warm sounds of soukous rumba, tropical cumbia, indian pop tunes, caribbean carnival, 80’s no wave, indierock, classic chanson, and much much more unexpected party sounds played by DJ’s Brian Hainaut, Jean Mikili, Bongoman, Cool Broccoli, Ji Efuola’m and Sebcat.
surely the most fun n free underground party in Brussel to end 2012 and go fresh into 2013 🙂
where you say? at Bélicia, Place Colignon, 1030 Schaarbeek
> right across Schaarbeek city hall, so you really can’t miss it.
