AMMAR 808 - REBEL UP NIGHTSHOP

"Le Tunisien Sofyann Ben Youssef marie avec grâce boucles électroniques et thèmes traditionnels du sud de l’Inde."

After wandering in North Africa and South  India, Ammar 808 now plunges his roots into the depth of African animist voodoo, within the realm of super natural entities that strive to experiment human nature through the Stambeli ritual, a Tunisian musical therapeutic ritual that was implanted by afro-descendant communities.

Using drum machines and analog synthesizers, he summons super natural creatures to visit our material world and taste human incarnations, form the audience’s collective experience. The album features vocals and gumbri from Bellassan Mihoub, who inherited his father’s knowledge and mastery. Two additional choristers round off the stage band, also playing the krekebs. Super Stambeli is a contemporary interpretation of the Stambeli traditional repertoire, processed through a time-travel washing-machine, a parallel-dimension earthquake portal, that aims to echoes ancestral ceremonies through sub-harmonic speakers. Here come the digital spirits.

REBEL UP NIGHTSHOP

Rebel Up Nightshop is a global sounds radio show on university radio station Radio Campus Bruxelles, Groovalizacion Radio  and Rhythm Passport, hosted by  crew members SebCat & Rico Medeiros.

Once a month a 3 hour radio show, all about sounds from the global underground, from traditional to vintage, pop and contemporary electronic music from far away places, the diaspora and sometimes up close. Every show we’ll introduce several albums of the month, compilations and EPs as well as a local Brussels nightlife agenda. Put yourself on a trip around the world in sound, no passport, visa, guide book or vaccine shots needed!