CLANDESTINO FESTIVAL, JUNE 5–7

With less than two months left to Clandestino Festival, June 5–7 at Stigberget in Gothenburg, we have the pleasure to add an exiting bunch of new artists to the lineup – zar by Mazaher, the allstar-experiment Nass Makan, electrified sitar with The Conspirators of Pleasure, Labelle’s Malyoabeat and Group Rhoda’s vintage synthesizers.

MAZAHER & NASS MAKAN

After a magical concert in the barn at Clandestino Botnik 2014, Mazaher is back!  With drums, mangour (a clancing belt made of goat hoofs), fluits and call- and response singing they present zar – ritual music from the south of Egypt and Sudan, that for centuries has been the music of the women and the poor.

While Mazaher places an ancient tradition in new settings, the super band Nass Makan is a harmonical intermarriage where some of the most prominent figures from Egyptian, Sudanese and Gypsy music are brought together. They experiment with styles, traditions and instruments from different places and times, in a musical dialogue without a script.

Both groups perform regularly at the culture center Makan in Cairo, with whom Clandestino is taking part in an exchange project since 2013. | Read more & listen

CONSPIRATORS OF PLEASURE

With an electrified sitar, effects units, laptops, random plastic toys, old radios and a massive knot of cables to connect everything, The Conspirators of Pleasure improvises peculiar sessions that operates on the borders of music and sound art. It’s not always “beautiful” – and don’t expect any understandable melodies! This is live music that throws itself into the unknown and takes almost every risk possible.| Read more & listen

LABELLE

Maloya is one of the most important music styles from the island Réunion in the Indian Ocean. Its roots comes from the dance culture that African and Madagascan slaves carried with them. The producer, musician and dj Labelle grew up with the traditional Maloya, and he combines the complex rhythms and the groove from Réunion with Detroit-inspired electronic beats. He creates rhythmical illusions that demolish every expectation – in a dangerously danceable way. | Read more & listen

GROUP RHODA

Group Rhoda is a solo project by the singer, multi-instrumentalist and vintage synth-virituoso Mara Barenbaum from San Fransico. On stage she uses a wide arsenal of keyboards and drum machines and creates a soundtrack soaked in echoes to day-night-dance dream away to. | Read more & listen