Saturday 10th October goings-on
Shaking off the palm-wine babalas, day four, the penultimate of our pop-up at The Showroom, goes live-o now-now.
Landing on PASS today: Nadeem Din-Gabisi and Anni Movsisyan of sorryyoufeeluncomfortable salutes Funmilayo Kuti and host Biyi Bandele-Thomas in Ties that Bind, The Otolith Collective welcome Henriette Gunkel, then bossman of Straight No Chaser Paul Bradshaw brings Zak Ové and Hassan Hajjaj to present their visual theories on the airwaves.
The third third of today’s sessions shall see Christine Eyene share her knowledge of bikutsi music, a concert-lecture from Shabaka Hutchings on “decolonising the mind from a (modern) jazz musician’s perspective”, and then new wordplay from Anthony Joseph.
If in London come to the party. Else lock-in to the live stream.
Kemang Wa Lehulere
sorryyoufeeluncomfortable: Oscillations Over Oceans
Oscillations Over Oceans’ with Rabz Lansiquot and Nyasha Mangera-Lakew alongside special guest Esa Williams, DJ, producer and integral part of the Auntie Flo set up. Through music and discussion, this show will explore ‘African’ electronic music, its production and consumption on the continent and in Europe. It will look into what its increasing popularity on dancefloors in the ‘West’ does for Africa in terms of representation, appreciation and success and whether it might be a portal to other aesthetic strategies …
Friday 9th October programme
Day-eve 3’s runnings: sorryyoufeeluncomfortable set us off with Nyasha Lake Wangara and Ewuraba (Radz) Hama Lansiquot looking at Oscillations Over Oceans effect electronic music made in and out of Africa. The Otolith Collective introduce Ayesha Hamed to travel at the speed of thought with Kodwo Eshun and chart Black Atlantis crossings, with Drexiya was a starting point for this technotheory. Kemang Wa Lehulere takes time out of his London stay (and exhibition at Gasworks) to perhaps pick up on a story of …
