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Wednesday, June 14 2023

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19:30	Event Sisso, Maiko, DJ MP3, Jay Mitta, Zai, Nana, MichaelBrailey - Afropollination x Nyege Nyege Afropollination x Nyege Nyege x MS Stubnitz 2023 Collaborative artistic projects between Africa and Germany After a couple of days of their residency & workshops aboard, 3 new live performances will be served, it's all about music and dance! SISSO, producer (Tanzania) MAIKO, producer (Tanzania) DJ MP3 producer, rapper (South Africa) JAY MITTA producer (Tanzania) Zai & Nana, dancers (Tanzania) Support: MICHAELBRAILEY (Germany/United Kingdom) entry: 19:30 start: 20:30 presale 13€ (+ fee + 1 club euro \| fair-tix.de donation) box office: 16€ reduced admission for students, pupils and welfare recipients at the box office: 10€ Tickets: https://www.tixforgigs.com/de-DE/Event/49121/ https://www.ticketmaster.de/event/509867 Facebook-Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/258380996696789 Afropollination is a project lead by Piranha Arts (Berlin) in cooperation with Boutique Foundation / Nyege Nyege (Kampala). Artistic direction: Nyege Nyege Afropollination is funded by the TURN2 Fund Partners: MS Stubnitz, CTM Festival, Cosmo Radio, Festsaal Kreuzberg Afropollination aims to encapsulate the process of artistic and social cultural pollination, facilitating creative encounters between artists, genres, disciplines, identities, ideas, cultures, technologies, and communities from Cameroon, Congo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, France and Germany. On the Stubnitz, the artists will collaborate in a second residency phase, exchanging their skills and styles and experimenting together. Afropollionation: https://www.facebook.com/afropollination https://www.instagram.com/afropollination https://linktr.ee/afropollination https://www.piranha-arts.com/#afropollination https://www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de/de/projekte/musik_und_klang/detail/afropollination.html NyegeNyege: https://www.youtube.com/c/NyegeNyegeMusic https://www.facebook.com/nyegetapes https://www.instagram.com/nyegenyege https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com Hakuna Kulala: https://hakunakulala.bandcamp.com https://www.facebook.com/hakunakulal https://www.instagram.com/hakuna.kulala MUSIC AND DANCE Music and dance have always gone hand in hand in Africa, but unfortunately when represented internationally, the two often get disentangled. With this project we want to re-contextualize the music through its dance element, and take it a step further by involving contemporary dancers and choreographers to create new modern interpretations to the music from the project. The first phase of the project took place in Uganda around the Nyege Nyege Festival 2022 with residencies before and after the festival as well as artists’ shows and debates at the festival. Further phases will take place in 2023 in Germany at the CTM festival in Berlin, two residency phases at MS Stubnitz in Hamburg, at Festsaal Kreuzberg for the closing Afropollination event in June 2023 and with a partnership with Cosmo Radio (Cologne). Definition: “Pollination is the transfer of pollen later enabling fertilization and the production of seeds, most often by an animal or by wind.” VVK (+Gebühr): 13.00 € \| AK : 16 € 1930
19:31	Live MICHAELBRAILEY MICHAELBRAILEY is an electronic musician working between sound and performance. His work has been described as “soul-bearing” (Martyn Pepperell, Dazed), “a virtual condensation process transmuting love across the heart-tech interface” (Gabe Meier, APR) and “like James Blake if he was actually any good” (Boomkat). He is a resident DJ on Hamburg’s Hallo: Radio and has been a special guest on NTS radio shows from aya, ZULI and Castles in the Sky. He also curates Manchester event series VIRTUALLYREALITY, whose 2021 online series saw newly-commissioned work leap out of the screen and into IRL life at Berlin’s Atonal Festival and Den Haag’s Rewire. https://soundcloud.com/michaelbrailey/sets/hallo-radio-residency https://www.michaelbrailey.com https://www.instagram.com/michaelbrailey https://linktr.ee/michaelbrailey 1931
20:30	Live Sisso x Maiko x Zai x Nana Sisso Tanzania, producer: Sisso’s productions epitomize Singeli’s hyperlocal scenius, distilling the vitality and struggle of life of the fringes of the Swahili-speaking world’s most populous city, into a unique music which seems to reflect the idea of keeping a cool head in frenetic situations. Between his ratchet rhythms and pitched-up melodies there’s a sublime, unresolved tension at play, where the music feels to accelerate so fast that dancers are gliding, sustaining a breathlessly “up” effect that uncannily recalls mid ’90s UK happy hardcore as much as Chicago footwork, Caribbean Soca, and Shangaan disco, yet with a psychotomimetic appeal all of its own. Maiko Tanzania, producer: Born in the sprawling working class neighborhoods of Tandale and Manzese, Singeli’s signature sound consists of fast paced frantic loops interlocking with each other, with influences from Zanzibars Tarab music all the way to South African afro-house coupled with mc’s who often spit satirical lyrics about the challenges facing Tanzania’s youth, from police corruption to the complications of dating girls when you are broke. If there is one studio that stands out amongst the hundreds that dot Dar es Salaam’s musical landscape it is SISSO RECORDS. Centered around producers; Bwax, Sisso, Bampa Pana and Yung Keyz Morento and Mc’s Dogo Niga and Makavelli, they were early pioneers of the Singeli sound. Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8hpYbqKAvo https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-of-sisso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxDDE4aFNz8 https://mixes.cloud/OrokoRadio/dj-sisso-singeli-movement-special-22nd-april-2022/ https://www.instagram.com/official_prodmaiko https://www.instagram.com/producer_sisso ZAI and NANA Tanzania, dancers Zai and Nana are two Tanzanian Queens of the dancefloor who specialize in Singeli. They have mastered the art of twerking and are able to move their bodies in rythms with this insane music that rolls at a minimum of 200bpm. Core members of the Singeli movement, they are regular performers at the Nyege Nyege festival and many events in Tanzania and East Africa. Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mdOilLD7dM https://www.instagram.com/zakwixhaz_dulla https://www.instagram.com/officialnanallitho/ 2030
21:30	Live DJ MP3 DJ MP3 South Africa, producer, rapper DJ MP3 Is A South African DJ, Producer & Rapper/Songwriter Located In Durban, KZN Born By Names Mhlengi Prince Cele Year 1992 May 3rd, he started producing music back in 2014 using a Pentum 3 computer on Fruity Loops 9. Since then he relentlessly bettered his producing skills and started performing in local shows. Very versatile in his field of work, DJ MP3 has no limits and produces Gqom/House as well as Kwaito \| Dance \| Electronic \| Deep House \| Rap/Hip-Hop. He has collaborated with artists Slakzin \| Bull Doggs \| Toto-Boi \| Traq Boys \| Traffic \| Lafaristo \| Drega \| Phelimuncasi \| Miss Twaggy \| Earl Da Gosins and is now collaborating with the Nyege Nyege label in residency programs. https://www.instagram.com/djmp3sa https://djmp35.bandcamp.com https://www.facebook.com/djmp3sa https://twitter.com/djmp3sa 2130
22:30	Live Jay Mitta x Zai x Nana JAY MITTA Tanzania, producer Jay Mitta is one of the core producers of Sisso Studios in Dar es Salaam, a collective responsible for popularising Singeli, a frenetic strain of underground Tanzanian dance music which often exceeds 200 bpm. He innovates with the singeli genre that's bubbled out of the ghettos of the Tanzanian capital. In his 2017 feature on the Nyege Nyege collective, RA's Aaron Coultate described singeli as bearing some resemblance to 'kuduro, shangaan electro and even gabber,' its sped-up rhythms constructed on second-hand Casio keyboards. Mitta's unique take on the genre also acts as an introduction to a rising singeli MC, 14-year-old Dogo Janja. His take on the genre is more polished and cheerful than other members of the community. As heard on his debut album for Nyege Nyege Tapes, Tatizo Pesa, Mitta’s beats have a slightly less frenetic character, if you can say so about music that makes footwork feel like downtempo. Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AJtXChPuIU https://soundcloud.com/jay-mitta https://pan-african-music.com/pam-club-jay-mitta https://open.spotify.com/artist/3IsLmcVQQz0mojIXUnxREm?si=p_FU6gAjTGuVTVcw1AD6aw https://www.instagram.com/jaymitta_kazi_kwanza/ ZAI and NANA Tanzania, dancers Zai and Nana are two Tanzanian Queens of the dancefloor who specialize in Singeli. They have mastered the art of twerking and are able to move their bodies in rythms with this insane music that rolls at a minimum of 200bpm. Core members of the Singeli movement, they are regular performers at the Nyege Nyege festival and many events in Tanzania and East Africa. Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mdOilLD7dM https://www.instagram.com/zakwixhaz_dulla https://www.instagram.com/officialnanallitho/ 2230