South Africa, what's up? ZA/CH
The city of Durban boasts its very own house music. Deeply urban and uninhibited, the (particularly) young GQOM scene knocks about traditional house with real talent, throwing a few punches with uniquely rough local sounds, much like DJ Prie Nkosazana, Dirty Paraffin and DJ Lag, the 21-year-old spearhead of this barely mature horde of producers who has recently signed with the exciting British label Goon Club Allstars and who will return to Geneva! And then there’ll be the queer performances of Faka, the duo that gets people sweating wherever they go. And Manthe Ribane (who happens to be the choreographer for The Antwoord, no less) and her unique creative collaboration with Swiss electro-soul duo Kami Awori. Oh yes, and you’ll find some GQOM in Jamie XX’s famed “Gosh” for example. Get it now?
CROSSROADS est organisé conjointement par la Fondation suisse pour la culture Pro Helvetia et la Direction du développement et de la coopération (DDC), en collaboration avec les institutions partenaires Kaserne à Bâle, Festival Antigel Genève, et le Centre d'Etudes Africaines de Bâle.
"Masr! Egyptian club night" et "Mzantsi! South African club night" sont des co-productions du festival Antigel Genève, SHAP SHAP et Kaserne Basel, co-curatées avec CUSS et Mahmoud Refat et présentées dans le cadre de CROSSROADS.
