Elvin Brandhi + Lès Modernos + round table discussion Musique Journal x Bugne Bugne

Elvin Brandhi

Elvin Brandhi is an improvisational lyricist, producer and sound artist from Bridgend, Wales, who creates aberrant rhythms from field recordings, magnetic tapes, vinyl records, instruments and voices. Using sound and voice as an expansive language that transgresses intrinsic systems and inherited syntactic labels, her concerts are unyielding bursts of eruptive animation where her caustic stream of consciousness gallops with a restless, glitchy heaviness. Her debut EP, Shelf Life, was released on C.A.N.V.A.S in 2018. She is one half of the father/daughter noise-improv berserkers Yeah You, who have released on Alter, Slip, Opal, Psychik Dancehall and Good Food. She also participates in collaborations such as the Avril Spleen project with Joseph Jadame (Maltash), Bahk with Daniel Blumberg (MUTE), as well as contributions to Drew Mcdowall’s Agalma, to name but a few.

Lès Modernos

When the thermostat continues to break records, Loïc Ponceau (Dragon Du Poitou, Lès Modernos, NEGRONAGRA, L.T. Létext, reading group…) offers you a WORLD EXCLUSIVE recital, 100% caliente, 100% sophisticated. Zouk-indus, slow jam à la despé and lovers rock for school assistants: the champion of acousmatic close-up, impassive and melancholic, assembles unpredictable love songs on a set-up worthy of a cyber-café concert (a sampler, a tape player, a microphone). The broth is full-bodied, sexy and courteous, a little salacious but always distinguished. And who knows, maybe you won’t be going home tonight… (Slaï)

Musique Journal x Bugne Bugne Round Table: Engaging Differently: Bodies, Celebration, and Collectives Beyond Politics

A round table discussion organised by Périscope and Musique Journal on issues that are currently on our minds: in the world of music, doesn’t engagement begin with playing, listening, and dancing together? Does politics in music necessarily have to involve discourse, debate and ideas? Whether in motion or not, isn’t the body a fertile ground for the political experience of music?

Guests: Melina Makhlouf, Romain Guillo and Tom Bellanger from Bugne Bugne, as well as Loïc Ponceau (Lès Modernos, who also writes for Musique Journal).

Bugne Bugne is a Lyon-based magazine dedicated to electronic music and the political and social issues surrounding partying.

Musique Journal is a daily music recommendation publication.