Experimental. For fans of Cluster Festival, New Music Festival, the unusual.
Nadah El Shazly is a producer, vocalist and sound artist from Cairo, Egypt. Her music combines expressive 19th century musical concepts from her homeland with contemporary, borderless forays into electronic and improvisational idioms. She has toured the world extensively, featuring at festivals including Le Guess Who?, REWIRE, Irtijal, and FIMAV, among many others. Her debut album, Ahwar, landed at #12 on The Wire’s ‘Best Albums of 2017.’ Beyond her own music, El Shazly is an inspired collaborator, working closely with like-minded Egyptian musicians Maurice Louca and Sam Shalabi (Land of Kush). Recently, she’s been making brain-scrambling, beat-driven music as Pollution Opera, a newly minted duo with irreverent Welsh sound artist Elvin Brandhi. El Shazly has also spent time on-screen, starring in the feature length film About Her (2020) and appearing in the Netflix original series Love, Life & Everything In Between (2022). Currently, she is wrapping production on a pair of film scores and preparing to release her sophomore album, due in spring of 2024.
Golden Sun Trio is a improvised music group formed by Nadir Bellahmer, Ethan Bokma & Mustafa Rafiq based in amiskawaciy-waskahikan (Treaty 6, edmonton, ab). Dense & airy, punctual and fluid. This devotional sound is wrung from the transitive nature of improvisation. Ease off the controls, Float in the river, Bathe in the sun, Sway with the grass, Let bugs crawl on you. Flow with time.
HASSAAN ASHRAF
Co-Presented by Real Love
Currently based in Tiotia:ke, colonially montreal, hassaan has been making sounds for over 25 years. Staring her journey in Lahore as a metal guitar player, over the years she’s bloomed in to a multi-instrumentalist producer and composer with her work in improvisational powerhouses like Satan’s Chewtoys (winnipeg), visual direction with Overload (Lahore) and after many years of wait, she’s laying the foundation to launch her cassette label for marginalized musicians in montreal/winnipeg/lahore.
As a staunch advocate of the Right to Repair movement, hassaan has specialized in keeping old smart devices functioning and useable as an effort to reduce e waste, she believes in the refusal to participate in the unethical extraction of cobalt through genocide, exploitation and child labor in Congo perpetuated by far west nations, their evil tech companies like apple, google, samsung and many others.
She will be performing her set at S+R with an iPhone SE from 2016 as the brains of her setup. She hopes to inspire others to use old phones as very capable music making devices and recognize the role they play through their consumption of unethically produced tech.
And remember kids, capitalist convenience is always sourced from unethically extracted materials using exploited labor of Black and Brown folks. Opt out.
Doors - 6:30pm
Show - 7:30pm
$30
All Ages
All tickets subject to service fees