27.05.2023 Control Club

PAN affiliated, Athens-based musician Evita Manji is connecting the dots between the human experience, climate change, quantum physics and death. Through their carefully constructed practice of synthesis and sound design, led by choir inspired vocals, they fabricate musical worlds consisted of ever-expanding sonic organisms, and shapeless solid non-materials.

From Cairo via Berlin, Abadir directs his attention towards the dancefloor, melting jungle, Jersey club and footwork patterns into Arabic rhythms in a call and response that's way beyond simple deconstruction. His recent album released on Shanghai imprint SVBKVLT is a sonic gem.

In a live performance by 7777 の天使, a wave of violent hits tears through but never imposes itself over the delicate harmonized vocals, drenched in almost weaponized auto-tune. These sounds are a call to the heart, no matter how loud and piercing the noise can get.

Pisitakun explores sonically his native Thailand’s political resistance trough a mixture of noise, traditional themes and dancefloor oriented beats. His journey as a solo artist began in 2014 around the time of the military coup d’état in Thailand, in which freedom of speech and the people’s ability to criticize the Thai monarchy was threatened with more punitive prison sentences.

YCS is one of Bucharest’s freshest talents to rise from the female identified Corp. platform. Her sets are going from club, bass, ballroom, gqom, and reggaeton to hardstyle and thrash, and switching from trap to pop and r&b. Expect irregular, dark, or heavy vibes – but not always.

This event takes place in the frame of the project După Imagine / After Image, co-financed by AFCN. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not to be held responsible for the content of the project, nor for the ways in which the results of the project might be used. Those are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the grant.

Evita Manji, Abadir, 7777 の天使, and Pisitakun are part of the SHAPE+ roster of artists. SHAPE+ is a three-year initiative co-funded by the European Union through the Creative Europe programme. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.