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October 13, 2024

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.
 
August 17, 2021

arkoada x meakusma

This coming weekend, in Berlin, don’t miss out on Meakusma x Arkaoda.
 
From November 12th till 14th, together with the great Arkaoda club in Berlin, we have set up a genuine three-nighter, featuring live performances and DJ-sets by Julia Reidy, Spivak, Thomas Bush, Laila Sakini, Bassae, Pretty Sneaky, Arthur, Gazza, Malvern Brume, TIBLSC, ML, Edition D’Art, 2 Morph, Sensu, Fog Puma, Iris, Yeahlena, Ugne Uma and Meakusma DJs. Two years ago, Arkaoda invited us to do a Meakusma night, we are thrilled to now go back.
 
From Julia Reidy’s music for processed and acoustic instruments, conjuring up non-traditional song forms which combine unstable harmonic territories, rhythmic elasticity and abstract narrative over-stretched, episodic forms, to Spivak, whose work is a play on the nuances and poetics of pop, her live performances jumping from intimate sonic liturgies to bursts of energetic and often deconstructed 90s inspired techno, to Thomas Bush who produces impressionist and experimental work full of distanced reflection and heartfelt alienation, to Laila Sakini’s work full of emotional breadth and ennui using a modest palette of piano, electronics and voice, to Pretty Sneaky who fuses dub basslines and dub aesthetics with free jazz-dynamics and who recently released on EP on Meakusma, to Malvern Brume whose experimental sound pieces move in an idiom all his own, to TIBSLC’s hazily ambiguous yet meticulously detailed sounds, hypersensitive to fleeting midnight moods, and many more. The full three days at Arkaoda will showcase some of the very unique talents at work in contemporary and electronic music.
 
http://berlin.arkaoda.com
 
 



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Ostbelgien Province-de-Liege

June 17, 2021

Tomorrow’s installment of the Meakusma residency of the Outsiders Series of Brussels-based Kiosk Radio features an interview with Gerald Cleaver, conducted by ML, and a mix called ‘The Perm’, done by Cleaver himself.
 
Gerald Cleaver’s new Griots album, released by 577 Records and Meakusma, further explores the depths of the electronic music coming from Cleaver’s hometown of Detroit, combining those influences with his own incredibly versatile background in jazz. Tune in tomorrow to hear Cleaver talk about his relationship with electronic music, his life in jazz and more.
 
https://kioskradio.com/label/meakusma

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