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Space Afrika + Blackhaine + NÂR
Concert
Lafayette Anticipations9 rue du Platre 75004 PARIS OffsaleAn evening in the new indoor space of the Station - Gare des Mines, punctuated by a new creation between Space Afrika and Blackhaine never shown in France!
• Space Afrika
The duo Space Afrika arrived at a key moment to remind us of the reflexive and activist force that electronic music can (and should) assume. Composed a few days after George Floyd's murder by the police, the piece hybtwibt? (Have You Been Through What I've Been Through?) came to accompany and support the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK.
Honest Labour, released in 2021, is an assemblage of British dub, Detroit techno, dark ambient and acoustic drone music. Steeped in Manchester's cultural heritage, Space Afrika's production blends masterful aesthetics, sonic innovation and an emotional and cerebral approach.
• Blackhaine
Blackhaine has succeeded this year in capturing the anguishing collapse of the present times. A sought-after choreographer (he has worked with Mykki Blanco and Kanye West), the UK producer creates post-industrial music bathed in the social realism of the north of England. In the synthetic and dark meanders of his productions, one evolves in a physicality sometimes emaciated, sometimes sublimated, which often evokes a Kafkaesque rereading of the drill.
• NÂR
Listening to NÂR's tracks, one rediscovers the evocative power of industrial electronic music. Handcrafted, abrasive, sometimes fragile, the sound work assembled by the Lebanese artist Nadia Daou appears terribly instinctive. On stage, her music takes on the appearance of a leap into the unknown. She assembles live synthetic, hypnotic, dark and sometimes brutal tracks that revive a fundamentally humanist and organic experimental tradition. Now based in Switzerland, her performances and various collaborations have made her a future masterpiece of current experimental music.