AB40 KICK-OFF: Global Street Sounds feat. La Yegros + Daniel Dzidzonu + Susobrino + NURI

AB40 KICK OFF : GLOBAL STREET SOUNDS is indeed both global and streetwise, and takes place from early afternoon in and around AB. Unfortunately, ongoing works prevent it from taking place on Steenstraat this year, so we moved the stage to the Anspachlaan right in front of the AB entrance. It is once again both free and diverse, with such names announced so far as La Yegros, Daniel Dzidzonu, SUSOBRINO and more. See below for more on these hot and exciting acts!

Make sure you get on your bike, because Sunday 22nd September is, of course, a Car-Free Sunday!

STAGE ANSPACH:

15:00 DANIEL DZIDZONU

A powerful trumpet player with roots in Togo, and proud of them too: he’s been known to wear a Mobutu hat and has coined in jest the slogan ‘Make Africa Great Again’. His highly infectious Afrobeat, however, is an extremely faithful interpretation, influenced by such greats as Fela Kuti and Tony Allen, Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela of course, Salif Keita, and Mory Kanté. He’s finally completed his first ‘full’ album. We are expecting a lot of people both in front of the stage and on it.

17:00 LA YEGROS

A thrilling blend of folktronica and ‘nu cumbia’. The Argentinean Mariana, aka Là Yegros, offers delightful, highly danceable sounds built upon cumbia, chamamé and other folk influences with an injection of electronica. Hence the term ‘folktronica’. She has recently completed work on her new CD, ‘Suelta’ (salvation). And you’re sure to know her from her summer hit ‘Viene De Mi’.

AB CLUB:

19:00 SUSOBRINO in the club as part of the ‘Rebel Up! label night’

SUSOBRINO is the alter ego of 24-year-old producer and instrument collector Bart Van Obbergen. His Bolivian roots have inspired his passion for exotic sounds, especially traditional South American percussive music. He blends his own field recordings and other music with digital ingredients into a rhythmic and energetic soundtrack.

20:30 NURI as 2nd ‘Rebel Upstart’ in the ABClub, still free entry.

Nuri released the LP ‘Drup’ in collaboration with the Tunisian label Shouka: a tribute to his Tunisian heritage, with percussion and vocals from all over the African continent, and all that in a digital mix, an ‘amalgam of then and now.’