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May 2016 Les Nuits

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Les Nuits

Without a doubt, we all have a place that has cemented this unquenchable, irreversible love for live music that binds us together. For many, one of those places is undoubtedly the Botanique. Many memories have transcurred – and just as many beers have spilled – within those opulent tropical interiors, and very likely during their hallmark Les Nuits, those stuffy, springy, unstoppable days where everything happens between the booming of sound waves and the love stories surging in the collective psyche. Lo and behold, here they come again. It’s time to discover new sounds, new memories and new acolytes for the music of tomorrow. Les Nuits sont à nous. 03

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Contents

Walter Hus & Paul-Henri Wauters 10 Photo Essay : Empress Of 16 Le Colisée vs. Robbing Millions 20 Photo Essay : Milan W. 26 Subba Parcours #nuits16 30 — We Visit You 08 Featured Artist 34 Books 40 Films 42 Subbacultcha Shows 45 Overview 62

We Visit You Photo by Stephen Freeman

Name: Amaury Wilkin Age: 25 Zodiac sign: Leo Website: venicebeachinstitution. blogspot.be

Slayer, Machine Head... But my father advised me to start soft and I bought Metallica’s S&M. Good memories! Your first ever music-related memory? Neil Young – ‘Old Man’. ‘Look at my life, 24, and there’s so much more…’ It’s tattooed under my skin. What’s your favourite pastime? Bars with friends, listening to music, playing and watching football. What does an ideal lazy Sunday look like for you? My Sundays are never lazy; hangover in the morning, football in the afternoon and a good film to finish the day. Any guilty pleasures? Radio Nostalgie; Classic french songs from the ’80s and ’90’s. Any regrets recently? Too much Orval and Merveilleuse (Rochefort + Porto). What makes you dance? A crappy party with old friends, ’90s music, special beers and cheap disco lights. Which Les Nuits show are you looking forward to? Steve Gunn!

Tell us, what do you do in life? I’m a real estate agent in Verviers/ Liège. I also organise concerts at Les Brasseurs with two friends, Brice Dreessen (Lowcommittee) and Pierre-Yves (Young Girls Records). What projects are you working on? I booked Daniel Bachman and Ignatz in Theux last month. I’m trying to offer quality music in my pretty village to a family-oriented public. What inspires you? Motivated, positive and openminded people. What do you like best about your place? The atmosphere in Theux is so peaceful and we’re close to everything. What kind of music are you listening to at the moment? Many things from the Antwerp-based labels Entr’Acte & Ultra Eczema, new Babyfather (Dean Blunt) and Tim Hecker. What’s the first record you bought? Since for ever, all my cousins have played in metal bands, so I had to listen to thrash metal like Pantera,

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Interview

Walter Hus & Paul-Henri Wauters

Les Nuits Walter Hus makes classical compositions and music for films and is simultaneously involved in dance and theatre. Most of you know his Decap version of Universal Nation by electro-trance producer Push as the final score for the film The Sound Of Belgium. Paul-Henri Wauters is responsible for Botanique’s eclectic programme, while fewer people know he is a classical pianist and a passionate organ player as well. Over the years this duo has constantly looked for opportunities to work together. During this year’s Les Nuits, Walter will be showing his decap organ in the museum and co-creating (live) music with a wide range of musicians. Interview by Herlinde Raeman Photos shot by Illias Teirlinck in Brussels, Belgium

Paul-Henri: Shall we sit on the couch? I have a sprain. I rented a bicycle in SXSW to bike from one venue to another and see as many bands as I could. But the streets lights are so bad over there and I didn’t see this pit. Crack… [Laughs] Walter Hus: Well, let me tell you my story! I was in a night shop in Molenbeek but I didn’t park my car properly so while I was paying I heard the police yelling, ‘Move your car please!’ So I ran out and

Walter Hus & Paul-Henri Wauters smashed into a bench right in front of the police car. You see? I feel your pain... Walter, you’re classically trained. How did that end up with you reworking a techno track? WH: I’ve worked with Jozef Devillé, the director, before and he mentioned that my work was very close to techno. He asked me, and the song ended up at the end of the film. I was so overwhelmed by the response that I also worked on other Nineties hits. Jozef always coached me in picking the songs. The most interesting thing for me was to create effects with non-electric instruments, like my decap. Paul-Henri, is this a message for the artists at Les Nuits? The importance and maturity of looking at familiar things from new perspectives? PH: What’s so extraordinary in Walter’s work is that he’s breaking out of formats. Diversity is so important nowadays, to look further than the image we have in mind, further than the obvious, to improve who we are. I believe we need this diversity, but the format is a facility now. It’s like a postcard showing us a blue sky; it’s clear, and there we go. But it’s through these projects where we work together more intensively that we can find happiness. My force is to support real culture that is not evident. For me this is hyper-motivation. Music-wise, electronic instruments open doors but at the same time we have to realise that everything is going back to earth, like the violin is trying to reach the human voice... There’s no difference between pop and classical music. The two genres have a certain format but we need to look for something that works for both, that’s freedom.

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WH: This is an important year for me, I’m going to improvise and make music on the spot together with a graffiti artist. The importance of the ‘now’ is presence; that I will be totally unprepared, makes me shiver a little. But I’m only following my pleasure and happiness. I lose interest when I know what’s gonna happen. I want to come to things that I otherwise wouldn’t be able to create. Paul-Henri, you start the day by playing the piano for half an hour. Is that an important beginning? PH: Yes, that’s dealing with roots. Classical music goes way back. I practice a lot of Bach pieces and that’s a lot of work. You can still be bad at it after practicing for over a year. WH: For me, music has to do with femininity, it reminds of my sister’s music teacher when I was a kid. She looked me in the eye

Walter Hus & Paul-Henri Wauters

‘Whenever musicians don’t like to play, they don’t say anything’ when I was asking to join the class and she said, ‘Yes, you look smart.’ From then on, to me music was always connected to libido. PH: For me it was also money [Laughs]. When I was seven there was a George Cziffra concert on the television. He was playing a polonaise by Chopin. After he was finished my uncle said he made good money. I was impressed by the fact you could play music and make money [Laughs]. No, actually music is a sister or brother to everyone, so when you practice music, you’re never alone. Playing an instrument is extraordinary to me because of that. So whenever musicians don’t like to play, they don’t say anything. Would you play all day? PH: If I had money enough, yes. I would play with other people more. I know that my life will be too short to play Bach well, but I started to like Mozart lately. His music is so powerful that you cannot understand it when you’re young. A lot of modern music is going back to this. That’s why our Sonic Lassus project during Les Nuits is so interesting. It’s working with heritage. WH: I’ll be working with a Chinese violinist who suddenly made my music very Oriental, so crazy. And I’m gonna melt my Decap organ with live African percussion. This will Walter Hus plays Closing Night Owls at end in a double trance, I’m sure. Les Nuits, Brussels on 21 May. The show is free for Subbacultcha members. His other performances during Les Nuits can be found on botanique.be.

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Photo essay

Empress Of by Julia Moebus

Lorely Rodriguez is the girl behind the psychedelic R&B project Empress Of, which debuted with the ‘Colorminutes’ series: 15 super-short episodes of musical delight. Today Lorely has grown into a captivating experimental artist with the potential to become the ‘next big thing’ in pop. With videos, songs and lyrics marked with such characterful feelings that they could almost be short poems or a collection of fragmented diary entries put together, it only seemed natural to name her debut album Me. We decide to take Rodriguez out in Cologne for a photo shoot to make sure one more time that this Honduran-American face does not go unnoticed. Photos shot by Julia Moebus, in Cologne, Germany

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Empress Of plays Les Nuits, Brussels on 07 June. The show is free for members.

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Le ColisĂŠe vs Robbing Millions 20

Le Colisée vs Robbing Millions The Brussels music scene is small and crosspollinating, and friendships are quickly made and solidly built. Take Le Colisée (David, Clément, Raphaël, Vivian & Simon) and Robbing Millions (Lucien, Gaspard, Léo & Jakob), who will not only share a stage at Les Nuits, but have also zigzagged in and out of each other’s lives and musical addendums. We got to be flies on the wall for a very special meet-up, fuelled by coffee, juice and stray avocados. Conversation moderated by Julien Van de Casteele and Gabriela González Photos shot by Nina Strebelle in Brussels

On special plans for les Nuits Botanique Le Colisée: For this edition, we have a sort of carte blanche, which basically lets us rehearse in the venue and invite some special guests. Hopefully we’ll also record a track produced by Walter Hus with his gear. Robbing Millions: What kind of gear? LC: He uses automatic organs and controls them via midi panels. The organs are built by a company called Decap that makes all sorts of automatic instruments – he’s like their lab rat, testing these instruments and seeing what can be done with them. What about you guys?

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RM: We’ll be presenting our upcoming album that comes out at the end of the summer, which makes it some sort of pre-release show to the release show [Laughs]. We haven’t been playing many gigs, only sort of ‘try out’ shows, so there’s gonna be hybrids of old stuff and new stuff. LC: We heard some of the new stuff. Bigfoot is awesome! RM: We mixed the album in New York with French producer Nicolas Vernhes; he’s a super creative guy when it comes to mixing, and he also leaves space for your ideas to develop. It was only our second experience with a producer, and we only wish we could’ve had a bit more time to play around in the studio.

Le Colisée vs Robbing Millions LC: Yeah, for us the process of making our EP was pretty long; we kept adding stuff all the time! RM: Same here; after the mix we recorded more stuff in the studio and continued to record back home. On first encounters RM: We met you guys during our first gig, remember? After that we ran into you all the time at shows and stuff. LC: It was around the same time that we were starting, back when it was David’s solo project. But then we all started seeing each other, working on tracks together and whatnot. RM: We once played on the same bill in Louvain-La-Neuve at some farm… pretty weird. LC: That was the time David was all, like, ‘That’s it, I’m not doing this any more!’ We were trying things on stage we’d never done before, like stopping in the middle of a gig and switching gear. It didn’t go down as well as we’d thought it would. But frankly, those are great memories. It’s cool to try new things, and it’s cool to ‘fail’. Once we tried this karaoke routine; after a while the organisers thought we were taking the piss and were like, ‘Whatever, just stop now.’ It was rough, but a good experience in retrospect. On must-see bands at Les Nuits LC: I’m looking forward to checking out Baloji! I didn’t know him at all and I just listened to his latest EP. You can really feel African influences reminiscent of Konono N°1, and I was really surprised – there’s always something different and unexpected going on. RM: That’s funny, ’cause he actually sent us some tracks yesterday

Le Colisée vs Robbing Millions

‘It’s cool to try new things, and it’s cool to “fail”’ and we’re going to record together. LC: Whoa! The production’s pretty out there – it’ll be interesting to see how he does it live. RM: I’m looking forward to the Porches/Frankie Cosmos night, and Suuns as well. I already bought a few tickets for that week. LC: What, no all-access pass for you? [Laughs] On possible collaborations RM: As far as working together, well Le Colisée are in our new video. LC: Yeah. Gaspard has also been in two of our videos. RM: And Raphaël has played in Robbing Millions before. But the rest of us have never really played or jammed together. LC: Yeah. David’s basically never played with other musicians from Brussels. Recorded, yes; but not played per se. RM: Well, maybe if he lived in Brussels that would change. Then again, it’s not like many Brussels musicians play together that often. LC: Oh, yeah? Just wait till he’s finally here. There’s some crazy electronic jams just waiting to happen!

Le Colisée and Robbing Millions play Nuit Belge at Les Nuits, Brussels on 16 May.

Photo essay

Milan W. by Femke Fredrix

Though no stranger to the scene, Milan W. has a shimmery aura of mystery around him, reminiscent of an arresting but blurry passerby in a film. The same can be said of his music: faint echoes, pulsating rhythms, and ghostly melodies that reverb like music made by duplicitous shadows, haunting by day and machinating by night. Fittingly enough, he will be one of the Closing Night Owls at Les Nuits, along with fellow electronic insomniacs Mathieu Serruys, Sagat, Tav Exotic, and more. Just the right occasion for this twilight magician to draw us into his fog.

Photos shot by Femke Fredrix in Antwerp, Belgium

Milan W.

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Milan W. plays Closing Night Owls at Les Nuits, Brussels on 21 May.

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Featured Artist Melbourne native Mathew Kneebone used to be a graphic designer once upon a time. At 30 he made a life-changing decision and dedicated

Mathew Kneebone himself fully to his art. Visiting his bedroom/ workspace, we had a talk about technology and what a broken laptop can do to a person.

Interview by Valerie Steenhaut Photos shot by Tiny Geeroms at the artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home in Ghent

Mathew Kneebone Science and technology are very present in your work. Where did that come from? There’s a story I consider my origin tale. I was 12 years old and my family and I were hiking the tallest mountain in Australia. For some absurd reason it had a metal-treaded path, and there were no trees there whatsoever. So when lightning struck, we all fell down and my sister got burned quite badly. Since then I’ve been very interested in the history of lightning, as well as the science behind it. It was somewhat inevitable. Biography is important to me – the reasons why someone would make his or her art. I grew up in the ’80s, when the domestic computer was on the rise, so I still had to know a thing or two about coding to make it work. Maybe it’s not that strange that I got into computers. Why become an artist then? Because I want to go further than pure rational science. I want to explore how we relate to technological machines, and the ambivalence we have towards them. I feel like the more complex machines get, the less people think about how they work. So when one of them breaks down, you’re faced with this reality of your own inadequacy and not know-

ing how an ordinary thing like a cell phone actually works. Often you start acting weird – searching for a Wi-Fi signal, for example – it’s like we feel in control, while actually we’re not. Is that why this lamp is designed to be broken? Yes. I believe it’s design that makes things invisible. Like, the metal track on the mountain was designed to be a functional thing, so you just think about what you want to do with it. That renders it somehow invisible; it’s just part of the world. I like messing with that a little bit. Take street lighting, for example: it becomes invisible because it’s in the environment that it was designed to be in. It was made to produce light, so it’s only when it doesn’t do what it’s meant to do that you begin to see an object for what it really is, removed from its function. That’s also what art is in a way, I think: removing something from its context and use, to give it a social function.

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Books Text by Gabriela González

The Making Of By Brecht Evens When you’re out of your so-called comfort zone, you can either fight it or embrace it and roll along. Reading The Making Of made me think about this: how we create expectations, even towards circles outside of our own, and ultimately how we can choose to have others drag us down or pull us through. Following the success of The Wrong Place,The Making Of is a cheeky spoof of the art world that has all the wit, grit and heart of its predecessor with a side-eyeable surplus of creepy clowns. The story’s central character, Peterson is a jaded artist whose bragged-about biennale ends up being an amateur art fair in the Flemish countryside. Eccentric locals make up the stock of fellow artists, and unsurprisingly, their passion for creating beautiful things surpasses that of the big names and big egos that Peterson has been rubbing shoulders with thus far. Every page is stunning, a portal to a new, unexpected imaginary: pastoral scenes of domestic bliss, encapsulated urban jungles, storms of figurative chaos, the hilarious sketchiness of an embarrassing wet dream, all rendered in gauzy watercolour as hazy as a memory. A true love for art permeates Evens’s work, and this extends to the characters dancing within. In the end, sometimes we need others to remind us that our own personal hells are likely our own lazy bastardisation of all that we once purely and unabashedly loved.

Films by Sabzian

Sabzian’s 3rd anniversary

‘A director should never stop being young’ — Kenji Mizoguchi On 7 May, Sabzian celebrates its third anniversary in Cinema Nova in Brussels with a festive evening dedicated to the love of cinema. This year we’re screening Chikamatsu monogatari [The Crucified Lovers] (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954). Probably the most beautiful Japanese film about love – impossible love – it’s a quest for a ‘centre’ where the world and man are reconciled. A film about lovers in 19th-century Japan, their faces are more eloquent than most words and images today. The need for this kind of ‘art of modulation’, as Jacques Rivette called it, hasn’t diminished in half a century. We’d love to have you over and celebrate it with us! Takizawa: To conclude, according to you, what is mise-en-scène? Mizoguchi: It’s man! One must try to express man adequately. (Fragment of an interview published in Eiga Hyoron, 1952) 7 May, 20.00, Cinema Nova, Brussels

Films Nightcleaners Berwick Street Film Collective (1975) ‘The film was about the distance between us and the nightcleaners, between the women’s movement and the nightcleaners, and was choreographing a situation in which communication was absolutely near enough impossible.’ (Marc Karlin) Filming the invisible lives of women and their struggle for better work conditions required a radical approach both formally and in terms of production. If you missed it at Courtisane Festival, be sure to get a look at this important film now. 16 May, 20.00, Art Cinema OFFoff, Ghent

Grands travaux Olivia Rochette & Gerard-Jan Claes (2016) Following a school year with fourth-year electrical installation students at a vocational school in Brussels, Grands travaux documents and stages that which gives shape to their lives: practical assignments and classes at school, football, the ups and downs of their love lives, the ongoing search for housing and employment. Depicting the daily life within the school walls, Grands travaux also aims at sketching an image of Brussels today, placing its youngsters at the very centre. Various dates in May at Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels Sabzian is a collection of online reflections on cinema, and maps cinephile events in Belgium and its surroundings. Articles are written in Dutch, English and French - sabzian.be

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On the following pages you’ll find all of this month’s Subbacultcha events. You can buy a ticket at the door or become a Subbacultcha member and enter for free. Join at subbacultcha.be the memoirs of a family and its tradition – to retrace the history of her ancestors who left Europe to settle in South Africa in order to escape religious persecution. As she travelled from France to the Netherlands, following her family trail, she kept traces of her quest with letters and a diary recording her impressions and discoveries. It led to a multidimensional work reflecting on migration, persecution and identity.

Film & Expo: Memorandum 12 April-29 May - Cinéma Galeries, Brussels various | €8.50 | Free for members Some artists are filmmakers, but not all filmmakers are artists. Which is why it’s always a breath of fresh air when a director like Apichatpong Weerasethakul comes along. He creates moving and unique pictures, dealing with complex themes and ideas, often rooted in dreams, nature, sexuality and the way the Western world views Thailand/Asia.

Expo: Pies in the Skies

24 April-26 June - Argos, Brussels various | €5 | Free for members Pies in the Skies compiles works from Argos collections that take us back to the roots of cinema, traditional Belgian surrealism and psychological experiments. It displays works in different media by contemporary artists such as Heine Adval, Charley Case, Messieurs Felmotte and Ken Koblans. They

Expo: Wendy Morris

24 April-26 June - Argos, Brussels various | €5 | Free for members Wendy Morris’s initial project was to create a Silva Rerum – a multigenerational chronicle recording

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Dan Sartain

all relate to the representation of dreams and the interpretation of our subconscious with one common goal: to escape from our everyday lives.

Party : Deep In House 04 May - MAD Café (JauneOrange), Liège 20.00 | €7 | Free for members 04 May - Fuse, Brussels 23.00 | €12 | Free for members

All leather jacket, greaser haircut, hollow cheeks and John Waters-style pencil moustache, Dan Sartain certainly walks the walk, but can he talk the talk? Nine rockabilly- and blues-leaning albums and a single on Jack White’s Third Man Records, all in ten years of musicianship, suggest he can. Nevertheless, for his last one, Century Plaza, he flicked the switch to the ’80s. The album is buried underneath layers of Depeche Mode and Suicide-like Arctic synths, remaking even one of his earliest tracks, Walk Among the Cobras, sound like Kavinsky on the soundtrack of Drive.

Twelve hours of Deep House, ambient and everything in between, spread over two rooms. From 11 pm until 11 am, you are treated with music by artists who ignore the boundaries of electronic genres. The cosmos room of the Fuse will be dedicated to experimental and ambient music (Aymeric De Tapol, Different Fountains, Shades). In the Motion Room you can dance to a four-hour extended set by Marco Shuttle. Also in this room: Gurl and Chris Ferreira & Kafim. Get enough sleep and be prepared to enjoy this slightly challenging event.

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THIS PATH TONIGHT TOUR + KACY & CLAYTON

TURNHOUTSEBAAN 286 BORGERHOUT (ANTWERP) INFO & TICKETS: WWW.DEROMA.BE + 03 600 16 60 + FNAC

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Ogoya Nengo & The Dodo Women’s Group + George Odhiambo

The tracks on the album layer acrobatic waveforms that mutate into a vibrating, multidimensional sonic black hole. Red Stars Over Tokyo’s melancholic tracks have already graced the airwaves of Jamie XX’s BBC radio show and will be beefed up live by drummer Bert Horniks and vocalist Andrew Pease.

07 May - Jünglingshaus (Meakusma), Eupen 20.00 | €10 | Free for members Seventy-three-year-old Kenyan singer Ogoya Nengo and her choir will fill the Jünglingshaus with the sound of Dodo, a form of Luo music that is used to sing the praises of people as diverse as the bride and groom at wedding parties or the best wrestlers at wrestling festivals. Her music got recorded for Western audiences in 2014 by Honest Jon’s Records, the boutique label of Damon Albarn.

Film: The Wounded Angel

Yves De Mey + Red Stars Over Tokyo

13 May - Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 18.00 | €5 | Free for members

12 May - STUK, Leuven 20.00 | €12 | Free for members

Award-winning auteur Emir Baigzin returns to the silver screen with his second film, The Wounded Angel. Following four separate stories, the director creates a transfixing and perplexing vision of corrupted youth. Many filmmakers can create a film that is full of flashy tricks, but

People who like their rhythms forceful and their synths modular can’t miss this. The Antwerp-based sound sculptor presents his latest release, Drawn with Shadow Pens.

MEI IN HET BOS

Maandag 2 20u

THE BELLRAYS Subbacultcha Events. Free for members

NEEDLE AND THE PAIN REACTION Sign up for €8 per month at subbacultcha.be Woensdag 4 20u THE FLESHTONES Zaterdag 7 21u ALL EYES ON HIP HOP: 808INK + WIKI + SPORTING LIFE Vrijdag 13 20u ARCHIE AND THE BUNKERS SPAGGUETTA ORGHASMMOND DEUTSCHE ASHRAM Zaterdag 14 21u ALGORAVE Dinsdag 17 20u QUILT + POPPEL Zaterdag 21 21u FOOTJUICE: A Tribute To Dj Rashad! Dinsdag 24 20u OORSTOF: ALAN LICHT & TETUZI AKIYAMA + TANDAAPUSHI Woensdag 25 20u MY DISCO JARENDUREN Donderdag 26 20u EAGULLS Vrijdag 27 20u JUGGALO NIGHT (film + concert): VIPER PIT, DOWNTOWN BOYS, SPACE BABY FLEX, en meer... Zaterdag 28 21u BLEACHED

ELKE DONDERDAG 19 U BOSKEUKEN

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Dinsdag 31 20u IMRAHAN (with Sadam from TINARIWEN)

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Bleu Nuit + Wraetlic + SIXSIXSIXTIES

it takes a special type to create a film as nuanced and simple yet elegant, which revels in the beauty of everyday life.

14 May - Beursschouwburg, Brussels 22:00 | €8 | Free for members

Party : ABSTRKT

Elastic synths, melancholic melody with a neurotic tight beat, the coolest and freshest band in hellhole town is called Bleu Nuit! Wraetlic is the vocal-oriented, synth-led project from Alex Smoke who has been offering a juxtaposition to Europe’s minimal electronic milieu for years.

13 May - Vernaeve Jaguar Garage, Ghent 23.00 | €16 | Free for members

Tolouse Low Trax + LOWCOMMITTEE

Receiving the Red Bull Elektropedia Award for best breakthrough last year, ABSTRKT is a creative collective organising in parties and concerts in Ghent and Brussels. In May they’re bringing in Berlinbased duo Discodromo and local heroes Mullart and Lunar, turning the tables with contemporary 909 techno to a rousing, hand-clapping disco anthem and much more. Oh yeah, and they will be playing in a Jaguar garage.

14 May - Les Brasseurs, Liège 20.00 | €6 | Free for members ‘Drum machine Voodoo magic’ is the term that best describes the music made by Düsseldorf local Detlef Weinrich. It’s only one of his many incarnations, as he’s also the man behind the synths in the German avant-electronic band Kreidler. His music is coupled with the sound of Lowcommittee, a Belgian

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Film: Berwick Street Film Collective

producer whose latest LP, Race at the Neon Club, was released on VLEK.

16 May - Art Cinema OFFoff, Ghent 20.00 | €7 | Free for members

#nuits16: LUH + The Scrap Dealers

Influenced equally by both Brecht and Godard, the Berwick Street Film Collective was known as a group of filmmakers that created engaging and provoking political films in the ’70s. The Nightcleaners Part 1 was a film that served as a campaign for women who wanted to unionise as contract cleaners working in offices. Several years in production, the film was released to widespread acclaim, becoming a staple in British political and feminist cinema.

15 May - Botanique, Brussels 19.30 | €20 | Free for members Ellery James Robert (ex-WU LYF) works together with visual artist Ebony Hoorn for his new project, LUH. Robert’s powerful vocals are driven by strong synths and guitars. The good kind of melodrama. The Scrap Dealers’ music has been evolving in different directions over the years. Influenced by krautrock and shoegaze, their current sound is very psychedelic, with a melancholic vibe.

Quilt

17 May - Het Bos, Antwerp 20.00 | €13 | Free for members So many bands have severely burned their fingers on the mix of pop-leaning indie rock, psychedelia, vintage British folk and Americana that makes up Quilt’s palate, but they seem to pull the trick off

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with ease. Their new album, Plaza, out on Mexican Summer, equals gentle meandering, perfectly composed songs that go nicely with spring weather and paisley motifs. For fans of Woods and Real Estate.

that includes pee-stained rugs, nihilistic musicians and a gold-digger named Bunny. While the story may be completely irrelevant, the beauty of this film lies in its off-the-wall characters, surrealistic dream sequences and a killer eclectic soundtrack.

Film: The Big Lebowski

Tomorrow’s Tulips + The Abigails 20 May - Madame Moustache, Brussels 20.00 | €10 | Free for members If the Jesus and Mary Chain and the slower side of ’90s indie rock made sweet, sweet love, out would come Tomorrow’s Tulips. The band rocks the typical Burger Records sound – fuzzy guitars, slacker vocals, don’t-try-too-hard-or-wemight-die attitude – and pairs it with Kurt Cobain haircuts. Their label mates The Abigails take this template and infuse it with dark country jangly guitars, the near snarling voice of Warren Thomas and biblical imagery landing their sound somewhere between the Growlers and the Mexican dessert.

18 & 25 May - KASK Cinema, Ghent 22.30 | €5 | Free for members The Big Lebowski, a sun drenched So-Cal neo-noir farce, already has its own religion, an annual festival and has sold more T-shirts than all the Marxist leaders combined. Follow Jeff ‘The Dude’ Lebowski as he reluctantly navigates his way through a complexly comical (or comically complex?) mystery

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#nuits16: Closing Night Owls

Nadia Reid + Anthonie Tonnon + Soren Juul

21 May - Botanique, Brussels 23.30 | €15 | Free for members 24 May - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels 20.00 | €15 | Free for members

Multiple locations, multiple artists. We present Milan W., Mathieu Serruys and Walter Hus, three fascinating composers/musicians who experiment with different sounds and atmospheres. Escape from reality and get your body and mind into a trance-like state. These artists prove exactly how powerful the impact of music can be. The same night, Vlek presents warm and intense electronic music by Sagat, TAV Exotic, Lawrence Le Doux and others. Sweaty dancing in outer space, all night long. Shape, a platform for innovative musicians and visual arts, will occupy the Orangerie.

Soren Juul is Indians and Indians is Soren Juul. For reasons unknown he decided to use his own name for all his future endeavours but the songs remain the same. The music on his latest self-titled EP still sits on the crossroad between folk, piano balladry, Bon Iver and calm post-rock but sounds a little bit more ethereal. Young Kiwi Nadia Reid brings the kind of Hope Sandoval and Laura Marling singer-songwriter folk that tugs your heartstrings with gentle hooks.

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Ata Kak + Prince Rama + more

Big Next Weekend

28 + 29 May - DOK (Democrazy), Ghent 13.00 | 1 day: €17, weekend: €28 Half price at the door for members On the first day of the festival, the line-up features American R&B and electronica masters 18+, French electro-pop crooner Flavien Berger, Le Colisée’s suavely sung pop music, Belgian rising stars Soldier’s Heart and Oriental-influenced R&B queen Tsar B. First of the Subbacultcha-curated stage will host Brussels-based ambient producer Samuelspaniel. Dutchman Lemontrip, is using the heavy structures of techno, to build a melancholic and dreamy ambiance around dismal melodies and alienating rhythms. Should any philosophical quietness strike that weekend, let it come from Luke Graham’s, The Hague’s FilosofischeStilte, own peace of mind. Translating silence and unfathomable questions into organised ambient chaos, experimenting with rap beats, layering vocals and Nintendo sounds. Soda Plains borrows from elements of breakcore and hardstyle in oppressive tracks. While the tempo

27 May - Vooruit, Ghent 20.30 | €14 | Free for members There are two things you can, without a doubt, say about Brian Shimkovitz, the ethno musicological mastermind behind Awesome Tapes From Africa: 1) His selections never ever fail to amaze and 2) there’s no such thing as too obscure for this man. Case in point: Ata Kak’s Obaa Sima, actually the first tape featured on the blog, only existed in 50 copies and the Ghanese musician behind it had long stayed shrouded in mystery. So it’s almost a miracle that he’s now bringing his alien transmutations of Ghanaian hip life to the stage of the Vooruit.

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#nuits16: Empress Of

would suggest spasmolytic effects, it tends to get our synapses active and listening senses dropped off. On Sunday you’ll get to see the Australian new-folk enthusiast Nadia Reid, lo-fi indie-rock experimentalist Car Seat Headrest, Mothers’ hypnotisingly soothing indie rock, NYC-based garage band The Mystery Lights, German midi-driven pop trio White Wine, Canadian electronic multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Jessy Lanza and British garage-punk formation Yak. Again Subbacultcha is curating a series of shows to have you flabbergasted. Maoupa Mazzocchetti has achieved that and more by patchworking punk, industrial, New Wave and noise all together. Halfway between techno and noise, American producer Ren Schofield – aka Container –manipulates the essence of sound intricacy and multiplies it exponentially until the complex becomes simplicity and the noise is melody. Analogue and digital synthesizers have become Hiele’s weapons of choice over the years in his quest for the purest form of electronica: a mix between dreamy atmospheres and frenetic upbeat tracks.

07 June - Botanique, Brussels 20.00 | €18 | Free for members Empress Of, or Lorely Rodriguez, is a true solo artist. With the exception of a couple of drum parts, she was in charge of the writing, performing, producing and engineering of each song on her new album. In her music, Rodriguez combines vulnerability with strength. Her personal, and sometimes critical, lyrics are recognisable by many of us. The strong and upbeat music counters the honest lyrics, preventing the recalled memories from becoming dramatic recollections. After sadness and confusion often comes euphoria.

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Film & Expo: ‘Memorandum’

Film: The Wounded Angel

12 April-29 May Cinéma Galeries, Brussels 12.00 | €8,5 | Free for members

13 May Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 18.00 | €5 | Free for members

Film: The Big Lebowski

Expo: Wendy Morris

Party : ABSTRKT

Tomorrow’s Tulips + The Abigails

Expo: Pies in the Skies

Bleu Nuit + Wraetlic + SIXSIXSIXTIES

24 April-26 June Argos, Brussels 11.00 | €5 | Free for members

Party: Deep In House

04 May Fuse, Brussels 23.00 | €12 | Free for members

Dan Sartain

13 May Vernaeve Jaguar Garage, Ghent 23.00 | €16 | Free for members

14 May Beursschouwburg, Brussels 22:00 | €8 | Free for members

18 & 25 May KASK Cinema, Ghent 22.30 | €5 | Free for members

20 May Madame Moustache, Brussels 20.00 | €10 | Free for members

#nuits16: Closing Night Owls

21 May Botanique, Brussels 23.30 | €15 | Free for members

Nadia Reid + Tolouse Low Trax Anthonie Tonnon +LOWCOMMITTEE + Soren Juul 14 May Les Brasseurs, Liège 20.00 | €6 | Free for members

24 May Ancienne Belgique, Brussels 20.00 | €15 | Free for members

04 May MAD Café (JauneOrange), Liège 20.00 | €7 | Free for members

#nuits16: LUH + Ata Kak + Prince The Scrap Dealers Rama 15 May

Ogoya Nengo

Botanique, Brussels 19.30 | €20 | Free for members

27 May Vooruit, Ghent 20.30 | €14 | Free for members

Film: Berwick Street Film Collective

Festival: Big Next Weekend

07 May Jünglingshaus, Eupen 20.00 | €10 | Free for members

Yves De Mey + Red Stars Over Tokyo

12 May STUK, Leuven 20.00 | €12 | Free for members

16 May Art Cinema OFFoff, Ghent 20.00 | €7 | Free for members

Quilt

17 May Het Bos, Antwerp 20.00 | €13 | Free for members

28+29May DOK (Democrazy), Ghent 13.00 | 1 day €17 - weekend €28 Half price at the door for members

LES NUITS 2016

13.05 La Femme fr • FùGù Mango be release • Bon Voyage Organisation fr • Joy As A Toy be 16.05 Nuit Belge : La Muerte, Oathbreaker, Stereo Grand, Bots Conspiracy «Scarabée», Baloji, Pomrad, Robbing Millions, Soldier’s Heart, Victoria+Jean, Le Colisée creation, Illuminine & Mons Orchestra 18.05 Salut C’est Cool fr • Kenji Minogue be • Jacques fr 18.05 Porches us • Frankie Cosmos us 19.05 Steve Gunn us • Imarhan dz • XIXA us 20.05 Flavien Berger fr • Bagarre fr • Insecte be 20.05 «Silk Road Sonata» Walter Hus be & Guo Gan cn 21.05 Katerine fr • Alex Beaupain fr • Blondy Brownie be 22.05 SUUNS ca • Duane Serah be 01.06 Ty Segall & The Muggers us • La Jungle be 07.06 Julia Holter us • Julianna Barwick us 07.06 Empress Of us

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