This year’s international program includes engaging workshops, live performances and concerts, film screenings, interactive games and much more, and is suitable for kids and adults of all ages. The Festival explores issues of colonialism and intersectionality but does so in a creative, participatory manner, engaging communities and listening to their very own lived experiences.
ROOTS, STEMS AND PETALS
With Stelios Ilchuk (CY)
FRIDAY, 15.07.22
In collaboration with and by sampling the local community of Agros, traditional and modern modes of expression are intertwined into a body of musical work that embraces the island’s diverse identity through a contemporary lens.
Bio
Stelios Ilchuk is a multidisciplinary artist and music producer. He studied Design at the Sandberg Instituut and in 2021 released an album on Moneda called ΕΞΩΣΤ in collaboration with Tasos Lamnisos (x.ypno). His recent visual work deals with personal themes and the relations between the organic and artificial.
HARMONY OR ICONOCLASM?
With x.ypno (CY)
FRIDAY, 15.07.22
Revered by some as an expression of independence and discarded by many as a “vulgar” relic of the past, the colloquial tongue of the Greek Cypriots can be thought to be situated in the space between “Harmony” and “Iconoclasm”. The project will lay the foundation for a discussion on decolonising the use of the Greek-Cypriot dialect in electro-vocal music.
Bio
Tasos Lamnisos (x.ypno) is a member of NYX, a Nicosia-based D.I.Y collective, and XMK. His practice as a producer and singer-songwriter centres upon the question of (be)longing with a pronounced focus on the themes of partition, uprooting, and social exclusion.
FUCKLORE
With Krista Papista (CY)
FRIDAY, 15.07.22
Krista Papista creates a spectacle of Folk Heroines; a performance of visual poems. A shit-show narrating and performing songs from her new album Fucklore; including herself and guest performers. Fucklore delves into the pockets of anarchy, mourning, and exuberance in the traditional styles, sounds, and ceremonies that survive on the edge between the existentially worn-out and the ferociously alive.
Bio
Artist/music producer; born in Nicosia, based in Berlin. Papista engages in developing and queering, politically induced, reinvented versions of history, through music, performance, and visuals.
DJ HARAMA
FRIDAY, 15.07.22
KADINELIA
With Thanasis Zikas: guitar, tsambouna, voice and Evi Seitanidou: guitar, lyre, voice, beatbox (GR)
SATURDAY, 16.07.22
Bio
From the tradition of Greece to the whole world. This musical journey is offered by Kadinelia, the world acoustic duet of Thanasis Zikas and Evi Seitanidou. A journey in which the timeless sounds of Greece acquire a new character through the charismatic guitar melodies and the harmonious song of the two musicians. Kadinelia’s project focuses on the enrichment of traditional Greek music with blues and rock elements. Their love for the artistic expression of their peoples soon led to adaptations of traditional pieces from other countries. Today their music consists of adaptations of traditional sounds, but also of original compositions by Thanasis and Evi. Their dedication and impeccable presence on stage have given them recognition, opening concert doors in all parts of Greece, but also abroad.
FOLK-POP & PSYCHEDELIC DRUMS & BANJO DUO FROM SWITZERLAND
With Cyril Cyril (CH)
SATURDAY, 16.07.22
Bio
Cyril Cyril is called so because the band consists simply and solely of two Cyrils. One, with the surname Yeterian, plays accordion, banjo and myriad other instruments. The other, with the surname Bondi, is a drummer/percussionist extraordinaire, and also a member of the wonderful Plaistow. Describing themselves as “muezzin without frontiers”, the Cyrils are fuelled by an irrepressible desire to explore places only they know to exist. The title “Yallah Mickey Mouse” admirably sums up both their stylistic range and their appeal. Part musical globetrotters with a penchant for desert blues, part absurdist magpies with a liking of cartoon humour, they come across a bit like a modernist trance version of Californian sixties mavericks, Kaleidoscope.
SUSOBRINO
With Susobrino
SATURDAY, 16.07.22 | Concert
Bio
Field Recordings, percussion, electronic spice and acoustic instruments. These are the ingredients chosen to create the perfect Belgian Bolivian. His didactic study for percussion and rhythm was the focus of his new album “La Hoja de Eucalipto” which brings alive a more active and aggressive part of Susobrino. The Bolivian Indiana Jones presented his first serene EP “Mapajo” in 2018. An EP fully made of his field recording trip to Bolivia.
Since then he achieved a double win for the “Champion Sound Beat Battle”, got “Most Promising Artist” at the Red Bull Elektropedia Awards and played festivals “Sfinks”, “TAZ”, “Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide” at Leysin and most recently “Listen! Festival & a the Lefto showcase night NCHT WNKEL” at AB.
Brussels-based Global Sounds powerhouse “Rebel Up Records” will be officially
releasing the new album in Belgium after the summer.
KRAAAOUUU
With KRAAAOUUU
SATURDAY, 16.07.22
KRAAAOUUU likes music
KRAAAOUUU likes percussion
KRAAAOUUU likes people singing for no reason
KRAAAOUUU likes people singing for a reason
KRAAAOUUU likes animals
KRAAAOUUU likes Botswana choirs, Indonesian screams, Colombian rhythms, West African percussion, Balkan brass, Indian curry, Chinese won ton soup, Ethiopian injera, middle eastern weddings, Cuban fried bananas, Persian ghormeh sabzi, Japanese ramen and drum n bass.
“THE DARK SIDE OF TEA… THE BRIGHT SIDE OF COFFEE…”
With Andis Skordis
SATURDAY, 16.07.22
Coffee cups, kitchen utensils, coins, church bells and other items found in Pitsilia, rooting from British colonialism, have been recorded as percussion instruments. Combined with Gamelan music forms of Indonesia, which was also a colony for many years, the two elements form a musical composition.
Bio
Andis Skordis is a Cypriot composer. His work includes operas, symphonic works, chamber music, Gamelan pieces, music for theatre, dance and short films.