Another exciting booking for this year’s festival excursion Clandestino Botnik, 27 to 28 July: An icon of the Arab underground music, with a phenomenal new solo album on Crammed Discs.
Yasmine Hamdan is a singer, songwriter and actress of Lebanese descent, currently based in Paris. She rose to fame with the duo Soapkills while she still lived in Beirut. The band quickly became a soundtrack for the young art scene in postwar Lebanon, and today Yasmine is an undergound icon in the Arab world. Two of her songs were featured in the award winning film “Divine Intervention” by director Elia Suleiman. | Read more
Voilà! A video collage from Clandestino Festival 7-8 June at Stora Teatern Göteborg, Sweden. Featuring Mark Ernestus presents Jeri-Jeri, Totó La Momposina, Batida, El G, Mata Hari, Livsfarligt, D.WattsRiot and the best audience in the galaxy. Video by Fredrik Sellergren. See you at Clandestino Botnik, our festival excursion on 27-28 July 2013.
We are proud to reveal today that we have made yet another extremely exciting booking for this summer’s coolest festival weekend: Clandestino Botnik July 27-28.
Paradise Bangkok is a club in Thailand’s capital driven by Maft Sai and Chris Menist – both DJs that found themselves completely obsessed with old scratchy vinyl records from the 60’s and 70’s Thai music scene (listen to compilation disc Sound of Siam for a good introduction to this hyper-exciting music era in between traditional village music and American pop, which was imported to the region via the Vietnam War). Sai and Menist also run a record label for re-editions and they stand behind the Thai super group “The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band”.
It is a unique band that was brought together to recreate the old molam-music with modern vibes. The result is a sound unlike anything you’ve heard, and at the same time an introduction to a long-overlooked albeit unlikely creative musical scene. | Read more
Thanks to all artists, volunteers and staff at Stora Teatern, participants of Aktivistsalongen and Clandestino workers. And of course the world’s best audience. This festival was so amazing that we can hardly wait for the next one. See you at our festival excursion: Clandestino Botnik July 27 to 28! | Photos 7-8 June
Time for the festival that overtakes your musical expectations and stretches your rhythmic sensabilities like a rubber band: Clandestino Festival is terribly proud to present two days of international music, dancing and party – for the eleventh consecutive year. At 7 pm on Friday, June 7, we will open Stora Teatern’s doors and serve you everything from Indian sitar flamenco to Senegalese mbalax-dub. From Colombia’s number one cumbia star to Portugal’s most innovative mutimedia musician. In addition, we present part two of our conversation series “Aktivistsalongen“, this time about the Husby events. The schedule and information about all the artists is available via the menu above. Very welcome to Clandestino Festival!
NOTE: If you have just become a Clandestino member and have not yet recieved your membership card by mail: No problem, we have the member list in the entrance.
“Cumbia, that’s when Indians and Africans dance together.” That’s how Totó la Momposina describes the music she’s lived with for six decades (interview in the latest issue of Lira). She is a twofold Latin Grammy-winner, with great respect and pride for the ancient musical traditions of Colombia – and at the same time frequently remixed by newer-time dance music producers. “when someone makes a composition and fifty years pass that music is part of the people, so now [my] music is property of the people because it’s now part of the people’s identity,” she says in a different interview. Don’t miss the chance to see Toto la Momposina live at Clandestino Festival on Saturday, June 8th! | More
Just one week until Clandestino Festival 7-8 June, and we can proudly say that we booked the tremendously groovy dj duo, Livsfarligt, which will start the evening at Stora Teatern: Livsfarligt formed a summer night in 2012 in a damp basement club in Gothenburg. No limits, no genres, no fear: From dark heavy dub to twittering electronic tones. Livsfarligt will make you dance, melt into the music and forget about everything else for a short time by recreating that damp basement room and fill it with new experiences. | Read more
ANDRA LÅNGDAGEN
On Saturday, June 1 it’s time for this year’s street party on Andra Långgatan and as usual Clandestino will occupy the corner outside the bar Tullen. Come and chill out in the sunshine in our outdoor living room or dance to the rhythmic bursts from our DJ marathon, featuring Glenn & Glenn, Anders Olofson, Nadine Bergquist, DJ Mleccha and Livsfarligt. There will also be live music by King Ayisoba from Ghana, which we will present in collaboration with our friends at Koloni (King Ayisoba will also play later in the evening at Koloni – where Clandestino too will be do a guest appearance behind the turntables). Time for Clandestino on Andra Långdagen: 12:00 to 18:00.
A video collage from Clandestino Festival spring edition. Thanks to Damien Priest for excellent video work! Next festival is 7-8 June at Stora Teatern in Göteborg – presenting the fantastic Anoushka Shankar, Totó la Momposina, Mark Ernestus presents Jeri-Jeri, Batida, El G, Mata Hari, D.WattsRiot, Aktivistsalongen med mera. | Program | Tickets
Yaki Da
Storgatan 47 Göteborg
Friday 24 May
7 PM (on stage 9 PM)
Price: 100kr
Two weeks before Clandestino Festival June 7-8, we invite you to a warm up concert at Yaki Da which will activate all your rhythm glands and put eardrums in irresistibly suggestive vibrations. Back from electro acoustic explorations far and wide: Filastine featuring Nova (who played at Clandestino Festival 2012).
No matter where Filastine steps with his feet, he gathers our hurt, our sorrow, our strength and vitality to offer a helping hand back to us. Analogue lives are taped, analysed, digitized, sliced, diced, scratched, manipulated, layered, fixed and placed on a foundation of bass, and the sound of a gun being cocked acts as a crisp snare, compressed into speakers placed left, right, above and below. Percussion hits of the Gamelan to the Sinai engage in rituals alongside melodies from the Balkans to Barcelona to NYC, presenting a rich global sweatbox.
As with the new album, Colony Collapse, vocalist Nova Ruth will be present to weave her words onto the canvass enhancing the transmission of truth to our receivers.
Fighting for humanity never felt so good on the dance-floor.
You are the weapon, and the resistance is fertile.
To turn up that festival spirit a few notches, we now release two day festival passes to Clandestino Festival June 7-8 at Stora Teatern for only 475 SEK. See Anoushka Shankar, Toto La Momposina, Mark Ernestus presents Jeri-Jeri, El G, Batida, Mata Hari, D. Watts Riot, plus take part in “Aktivistsalongen”.
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Two-day passes are sold on location in the Stora Teatern box office, or reserved by phone +46 (0)31-368 32 99 or email biljett.storateatern@kultur.goteborg.se.
Another exciting booking for this year’s festival excursion Clandestino Botnik, 27 to 28 July: An icon of the Arab underground music, with a phenomenal new solo album on Crammed Discs.
