Meakusma at Open Ground

feat. Josey Rebelle, Chima Isaaro, Polido (live), Viola Klein, Vera Dvale (live), Sagat (live), Mankiyan and ML.

We are thrilled to co-organize a night at the amazing Open Ground club in Wuppertal, Germany. There will be a program in both rooms of the club, tapping into the collaborative and eclectic spirit that Meakusma always aims for. Get ready for a kind of mini version of the Meakusma Festival, with adventurous club music and experimental sounds. This night also offers us the opportunity to celebrate Viola Klein’s new Confidant 12-inch on Meakusma.
 
House music auteur Viola Klein explores the social forces inherent in house music through her beautifully contemplative and confrontational productions and DJ sets, combining experimental house from the US Midwest, West-African polyrhythms, and music in the tradition of Can. Chima Isaaro specializes in uplifting, soulful, Black dance music. Based in Lisbon, she is one of the most exciting and eclectic selectors around, playing house, techno, disco, soul, jazz, and batida. Raised in a Caribbean culture of dancers, DJs, and sound system operators, London-born-and-bred DJ Josey Rebelle seamlessly traverses genres with a fearless energy that evokes the spirit of her home city. Josey is already legendary.
 
Through visual and/or sound mechanisms, Lisbon-based Polidoseeks the evanescent threshold between recognition and alienation, assembling surreal narratives for concrete spaces. He released the acclaimed While The Iron Was Hot on the Ana label and his most recent Hearing Smoke album on Holuzam is nothing short of amazing and mesmerizing. Sagat is an electronic music producer and videographer from Brussels who moves the listener into ever-unexpected syncopations and melodic elements that tell the story of human flesh being fused with fiberoptics. From Norway, Vera Dvale is a seamstress of nocturnal synesthetics, a weaver of worlds of spatial immersion. DJ support by Mankiyan, whose spatial sets are full of depth and intuition, spanning across heady dub, rave, UK bass, and grime, and ML, who marries avant-techno with rural chants from the past, odd house emotions with detailed minimal music, psychedelic fuzz with big city jazz and beyond.