Meet the artists
Proud to present our playmates! Join us in celebrating aesthetic extravagance in an unreal city.
Othman El Kheloufi
Composer, singer, saxophonist and artistic all-rounder Othman El Kheloufi was born in Salé in north-western Morocco. As an autodidact, he develops his own compositions and melodies, a proper, personal language that combines influences from everywhere with jazz, chaabi and other popular Maghreb music traditions. He himself calls his style 'neo-beldi' (referring to 'le bled', the 'back of beyond'), an adventurous sound stemming from tradition, the sounds of his youth. We are proud to be able to listen to his unique poetry of sound, words & silence. Get a taste here.
DIAKITECAMARA
est un duo composé d’Ibrahim Diakité (harpe n'goni, chant) et Eric Camara (viole de gambe, Kamanché, boite à rythme) sur Bordeaux. Ibrahim est un virtuose de Ngoni, harpe africaine qu’il a appris auprès de grands maîtres Maliens. Il joue aussi de la Kora, fabrique lui-même ses instruments et chante en bambara, français, espagnol. Eric joue et a joué de la basse électrique, de la contrebasse, de la viole de gambe, du kamanché dans des groupes de rock, pop, expérimentaux.
DIAKITECAMARA mélangent les influences de la musique Malienne traditionnelle du Baroque et du Rock.
Listen here.
Chi aka Robert Machiri
Robert Machiri is a sound worker. He works primarily through auditory mediation manifested through social practice. Machiri’s work exists at the juncture of two streams; music and post-disciplinary reproduction presented through embodied and process driven modalities. By learning to unlearn intersecting listening, movement, mobility, sonicity and the image in search of other archival possibilities. His work is most notable through PUNGWE, a project of mutable practices that circle pan African soundings with related contemporary arts discourses and spaces. Find an intro to Robert Machiri's work here.
Serdar Keskin
Mersin-based singer-songwriter Serdar Keskin is joining us in Marrakech. With new and old songs, he affirms solidarity and the dire need for utopia. Serdar Keskin has been a member of Group Yorum, the revolutionary music group originating in Turkey. We are looking forward to this sonic exchange, which is also a celebrating of the work of our friends at Kültürhane in Mersin/Turkey. Listen to Serdar Keskin here.
Sanza Sandile/
Yeoville Dinner Club
Sanza Sandile is the founder and maker of the Yeoville Dinner Club, a space for tasting Pan-Afrikan futures while sharing a dinner table. Dubbed a culinary smuggler and the “El Bulli of Yeovillle”, Sanza Sandile affirms the dignity of encounters by his unique twist to otherwise well-known African dishes, such as vegan Egusi or Okra-stews. His mixology of flavours, tastes and stories speaks to his earlier career as a radio DJ and selector at YFM and other radio stations of crucial importance in the sonic history of South Africa. His home spot, inspiration and utopia is Yeoville, the famed Johannesburg suburb called the “most diverse hood in Africa”. The table of the Yeoville Dinner Club is both an archive of routes and stories, and a portal to imagining otherwise. Get hungry here.
Chocolat Billy
Chocolat Billy play since 2002. The band have - up to now - produced seven albums and has performed hundreds of concerts in Europe. The music is like a chaotic pop music , an improvisation colored with a lot of international influences.
Dance and transe !
Haroun
After releasing their first project entitled "The Market" on Soundcloud in early 2020, Haroun has evolved their style in a concise and rounded way, enabling them to explore different soundscapes and forge their own sonic identity with influences from Motown’s Divas to dancefloor focused electronic music.
Bringing together an array of musical influences, the French-American-Moroccan artist, now based in South-East London, drives a reflection about self-care entangled in funky basslines, R&B riffs meshed with playful lyrics, all depicting the importance of letting go through dance.
MOJO
After a first successful experiment under the name Golden Key, the founding members of this group are back on stage with a new configuration, a new name: MOJO, and above all a new repertoire combining blues, jazz, rock ballads and gospel. All for Maximum Of Joy (MOJO).
Mathias Pontévia
Percussionist and composer Mathias Pontévia, based in Bordeaux, embraces a variety of approaches and sonic environments. Find a taste of his work here.
Kabelo Saltiel Tselapedi
Kabelo S. Tselapedi is a photographer who mainly works in documenting artists’ at play. Based in Germany and South Africa, he is also the co-founder and -director of an art space in Thabazimbi, in the north of South Africa, and the SoFireTown Youth Crew. Kabelo Tselapedi, organizes cultural meetings and exhibitions with the aim of creating an open society rather than an exclusive one.
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