Clandestino is back at Pustervik and presents a star-studded musical soiree. On stage: Two French acts, namely Débruit and Erotic Market. Furthermore from Gothenburg, Amina Hocine and Dj Olof Heinö. The evening is organized in cooperation with the Gothenburg Film Festival, membership card in the film festival is required for entry. Click on the artists’ names below to read more and listen to music.

OCEANEN | STIGBERGSTORGET 8 | GÖTEBORG | 5 DECEMBER 2014

Out of the boiling underground scene in Peru’s capital Lima emerges Animal Chuki. Ancient folk music from the Andes form the basis of this producer duo’s electronic sounds: Hypnotic, electric cumbia with intricate Farfisa melodies, gun sounds and some rather naughty rhythms. The duo is signed to the record label ZZK, specializing in the export of South America’s best latintronica.

We have taken breath for a moment, looked through tons of photos, trying to sum ​​up last weekend’s experiences: To us, it feels like a legendary, magical festival excursion! A warm thank you to all who helped make Clandestino Botnik 2014 possible: Everyone who performed, sang, danced, read, recited, showed art; our friends who run Botnik Farms, Gerlesborgsskolan, KKV, actors, directors and others at Angered Theatre, Gallery Box, photographers, sound and light technicians, raft builders … and an extra super mega thanks to all volunteers xoxo. Thanks also to our sponsors: Tanums Municipality and Västra Götaland kulturnämnd. Finally, thanks to an amazing audience. We hope to see you all again at Clandestino Botnik next summer, subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news on this and other events. We can already announce that all profit from Clandestino Botnik will go towards helping undocumented/hiding refugees.

About 80 photos of Clandestino Botnik are now in our archives.

Pre-sale tickets are going so fast that we decided to release an extra 100 festival passes to to Clandestino Botnik! See the “Tickets” at the top of the page. Please note that we can not provide parking within the festival area. Here’s the latest bookings — two awesome DJs and three artists. See you at Clandestino Botnik on Friday!

D.WATTSRIOT
Traditional Chobi music from Iraq meets bastung electronica, experimental music collides with hip hop or raga from the Indian subcontinent, and Algerian radio can be heard somewhere in the mix; This fits Zulu choirs beautifully with Louisiana blues. | Read more

ELENA Wolay
About Elena Wolay were Culture Minister would today’s youth to listen to Pharoah Sanders instead Yohio, and we would probably have got a new anthem written especially for runout and pan percussion. | Read more

SOSASONYA
Sosasonya moves through soundscapes where bass lines appear to be wild rivers running over soft rhythms and sharp beats. Cocky, sexy, heavy, wild. | Read more

ART GALLERY BOX
In collaboration with Gallery Box we present works by three young artists in Clandestino Botniks pop-up gallery in the barn: Amanda Herman | Ioana Cojocariu | Lena Bergendahl

Sunday matinee
Clandestino Botnik ends with Platform Production presents a secret Sunday matinee movie on July 27 at 14.00.

With only a few days left to Clandestino Botnik July 25-27, we continue to add new artists to the program: French duo Erotic Market and a special “tipspromenad” by the poet UKON. Get tickets to this summer’s best festival excursion at a discount price – special offer is valid until July 20!

EROTIC MARKET
“I want you to love my booty, not my inner beauty”: Erotic Market makes humorous, erotic low-budget hip-hop in a French flavored English. Read more| Video

TIPSPROMENAD WITH UKON
Swedish poet UKON posted more than a thousand questions on Twitter during one year, and collected them in the book ? (Oei-editör, 2013). He asks us 40 of these questions in his “Tipspromenad” during Clandestino Botnik, a combination of exhibition, quiz and walk in the woods on Saturday 26 July. Read more | Video

Ten days until Clandestino Botnik, our festival excursion to Botnik Farms in Bohuslän, July 25 to 27. There are still tickets left, so hurry up: On Wednesday, July 16, the chance to get them at the Early Bird price will end. We proudly present a literary happening to the program:

In a unique appearance on Sunday, July 27, the two authors Pär Thörn and Andrzej Tichý will read their joint novel Region X at Clandestino Botnik. Region X was released in 2014 and is a multi-faceted collective novel in sequential form, where a number of human activities are interlocked. This reading will be in Swedish! | Read more

A big thank you to all artists, speakers, volounteers, collaborators and of course to the audience: Thanks to you, Clandestino Festival XII was every bit as amazing and fun as it should be an then some! Check out fantastic photographs from the festival here!

We hope to see you again on 25-27 July: This time in Bottna, near Gerlesborg in Bohuslän, where the sixth annual Clandestino Botnik will take place: It is our festival excursion to the artist-run farm Botnik. Among this year’s artists are Mulatu Astatke, Mariam The Believer and José González. Complete line up and more information here. This will be the first time that Clandestino Botnik takes place over three days instead of two, meaning that we start on Friday instead of Saturday. A hot tip is to get your tickets and accomodation soon, as they both are going quickly (pitching your tent on the lawn next to the festival is free of charge). Tickets for Clandestino Botnik are available at a reduced early bird Price until 1 July. Also make sure to book your ride with Festivalbussen. Check out the videon above for a some Clandestino Botnik vibes. See you soon!

Tonight at Clandestino Festival: Music program starts at Musikens Hus at 7 PM with Dj Elena Wolay, followed by Indian qawwali star Raza and British-Nigerian afrobeat nouveau band Ibibio Sound Machine. The evening continues at Skjul Fyra Sex, Fiskhamnsgatan 41 from 10 PM, with Houwaida, Nass Makan, Débruit & Alsarah and many more! Tickets for the whole evening are 350 kr. Tickets for the shows at Skjul Fyra Sex only are 150 kr (only sold at the door, cash only). Check out the schedule for full line up!

Friday night at Clandestino Festival: get ready for Mykki Blanco, Nisennenmondai, Geomungo Factory, Labelle, Chancha Via Circuito and Dj Elena Wolay at Musikens Hus. One day tickets sold here on the web site and in the door!!!

Mazaher, photo: Anna Lamberg

After two months of hard work, our guests of honor from Ecca Makan were finally granted visas visas by the Swedish Embassy in Cairo. They’re rehearsing now for three gigs this weekend culminating in a collaboration with Amina Hocine at Skjul Fyra Sex, Saturday 6 June. We can now also reveal that Nass Makan (the other group from Cairo) performs at Stigberget Svänger och Svär in The Söderlingska park near Stigbergstorget during The International Day celebration on 6 June at 19:00 (free entrance). So do not despair if you missed getting a three-day pass to Clandestino Festival that guarantees admission to the sold out opening night at Oceanen. Note, for those of you who managed to get hold of the three-day pass you have to be in place in good time. Doors open at 18:00. Entrance to the concert is via the alley on the lower long side of Culture Ocean.