Eastern Daze IV
TramZwart, Ghent
Vooruit, Ghent
4th edition of the notorious Eastern Daze-festival, aka KRAAK & Vooruit’s back and forth game between (not so) non-western traditional music and avant-garde. This year’s edition will take over 3 places — Vooruit, KASK cinema and TramZwart.
LINEUP & LOCATIONS
Thu 23 November 2017
KASK Cinema
| 20:00 | Remörk |
| 20:45 | Introduction by Paul Williamson |
| 21:00 | Completely into the Present |
Fri 24 November 2017
tramzwart
| 20:00 | Léo Svirsky |
| 21:00 | Florence Giroud + band |
| 22:00 | Asiq Nargile |
| 23:00 | Jéricho |
| 00:00 | DJ Nixie |
Sat 25 November 2017
Vooruit - Theater Foyer
| 15:00 | Zerzura |
| 16:00 | Keiko Higuchi |
| 17:00 | Susan Alcorn |
| 18:00 | Andrew Pekler |
| 19:00 | Break |
Sat 25 November 2017
Vooruit - Balzaal
| 20:00 | Stella Chiwehse |
| 21:00 | Richard Dawson |
| 22:00 | Afework Nigussie |
| 23:00 | Still |
| 00:00 | Novo Line |
| 01:00 | Nosedrip b2b Earache |
Remörk
Completely into the Present - A documentary about Tony Conrad
Composer, violin player and visual artist Tony Conrad was one of the key figures in the sixties New York’s avant garde and minimalist circles. He fluently build bridges between structuralist movie, just intonation droning, La Monte Young and The Velvet
Asiq Nargile
Born in Tbilisi and now based in the Borcali region of Southern Georgia, Nargile Mehtiyeva aka Asıq Nargile has been playing saz (long-neck lute) and singing since the age of 15. Fluent in Azerbaijani, Georgian, and Russian, Nargile represents the cosm
Jéricho
Jéricho is the new project of Yann Gourdon, the master and inventor of his highly personal mix of Tony Conrad and Occitan folk. With Jéricho, he expands this territorium to a more pulsating and more song-based approach. The double LP,
Florence Giroud ft. Romain Hervault, Pierre Bujeau & Antoine Bellini present: ‘CHANGE, Opera XXS - Acte IV’
CHANGE, Opera XXS is an ongoing piece of art created by the French artist Florence Giroud. Her work operates in the grey zone between visual art and music, in which she creates a labyrinth of seventies inspired psychedelic prog folk, French pa
Leo Svirsky
“Svirsky lights corners of hidden musical worlds with a palm sheltering the flame” — BOMB Magazine.
Susan Alcorn
“Alcorn’s explorations of extended technique and her love of free jazz and minimalist composition have seen her transport the pedal steel to unexplored pastures of improvisational innovation.” — The Quietus
Andrew Pekler
The Berlin based American Russian Andrew Pekler delves deep into playful loop based exotic electronics. His most recent record is a hommage to the legendary anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss and the his book ‘Tristes Tropiques’. The record is a sonic
Keiko Higuchi with Louis Inage
Piano player and vocalist Keiko Higuchi’s expressive style is a crossbreed of Japanese psych and spiritual free jazz, conceived in the womb of Diamanda Galas. Higuchi is rooted in the tradition of songwriting of Kurt Weill and Nina Simone, but squirms
Zerzura - A film directed by Christopher Kirkley
Richard Dawson + band
The International press is already raving about Dawson’s new record Peasant. The album is a proper concept record about a small medieval community under pressure by higher powers. Exclusively for the festival Dawson will present the record for
Still ft. Freweini & Keidino
STILL is a moniker of Simone Trabucchi of Invernomuto and Hundebiss Records - who has previously recorded and performed as Dracula Lewis. His new leftfield dancehall project is set to release a debut album on PAN later this year. Featuring three vocali
Stella Chiweshe
Queen of Mbira Music from Zimbabwe
“trance music that will transport you to a dreamy stasis. Haunting and full of raw emotion”
Afework Nigussie
Versatile musician and singer from Gondar (north of Ethiopia). His solo set at Gardena will emulate his personal allegorical history of that of an ‘Azmari’; a type of Ethiopian bard who embodies the freedom of speech in Ethiopia by singing provocative,
Novo Line
“His one-of-a-kind style makes Fowler’s Against The Clock session an instant classic.” — Factmag