The Sonic Pluriverse Festival: Congorama continues with La Perla, Mazaher, Makumba (Dengue Dengue Dengue), Chrisman (Nyege Nyege) on 7 July at HKW

Congorama
as part of Sonic Pluriverse Festival
Concerts, DJ Sets
Fri. 7 July 2023
Paulette Nardal Terrace, Restaurant Weltwirtschaft
Ticket 18/14 €
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Accreditation under presse@hkw.de

19:00 La Perla
Concert
La Perla are a percussive vocal trio that combine tambora, tambor alegre, llamador, gouache, and maracas with rap and beatboxing to create a lively mix of bullerengue, hip hop, merengue and Caribbean rhythms.

20:30 Mazaher
Concert
Mazaher are an ensemble who draw upon the zar tradition, a community-oriented healing practice of drumming, chanting, and dancing undertaken mainly by women Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Iran, North Africa, and Somalia. In Egypt, the practice is in danger of disappearing: only around twenty-five people continue to hold the ceremonial gatherings that reconcile spirits. Mazaher’s chants and polyrhythms describe spiritual worlds of experience that reach back into pre-Christian and pre-Islamic pasts.

22:00 Makumba (Dengue Dengue Dengue)
DJ Set
Rafael Pereira aka Makumba is half of the well known electronic duo Dengue Dengue Dengue. His sets fuse African, Caribbean, and Afro-Peruvian sounds, resulting in eclectic mixing samples of traditional sounds from South America together with dub, dembow, and heavy bass lines.

00:00 Chrisman (Nyege Nyege)
DJ Set
Mazambi Mukamba Christian, aka Chrisman, was born in Congo, where he started his music career as a member of the hip hop band Young Souljah, working as a sound engineer and producer on the side. In 2019 he moved to Uganda where he joined the Nyege Nyege Crew. His music reflects his personal universe, combining electronic underground sounds from gqom, Afro house, tarraxinha, and kuduro with intense synths.

Congorama
as part of Sonic Pluriverse Festival
Concerts, DJs, Listening Sessions
2.6.–9.9.2023

A summer full of music: The Sonic Pluriverse festival continues with Congorama, a musical journey that takes three locations which all have the word ‘Congo’ in their name as its sonic compass.

Congorama combines concerts, DJ sets, workshops, listening sessions, and a festival. The first edition of the new festival series Sonic Pluriverse is oriented on three locations in the world that have the word ‘Congo’ in their name: the Congo River, Congo Mirador, a village in northern Venezuela, as well as Congo Square in New Orleans. Separated by great geographical distances, all three possess  incomparable sonic and cultural riches and share many things in common that spring from their violent colonial past. Congorama invites the public to engage with the sonic knowledge and history of these geographies and experience how sound can generate and connect different worlds.

Further Dates

15 July 2023
Pluri-Rhythm Festival
Ale Hop & Laura Robles, Amuleto Manuela and Anacaona DJ Talk, Basma, Daytimers Showcase: Dj Ritu b2b Chandé, Disco Vumbi, Florence Adooni, Guedra Guedra, Jembaa Groove, Mohammad Reza Mortazavi (free Entrance)

21 July 2023, 19:00
Nação Zumbi
Célia Wa, Coco EM, O.N.A

25 July 2023, 19:00
Fatoumata Diawara
Femdelic

29 July 2023, 19:00
Etuk Ubong & The Etuk Philosophy
Batila & The DreamBus, Cami Layé Okún

25 August 2023
Literary festival PREE: Caribbean. Writing.
Dowdelin

9 September 2023
Award ceremony Internationaler Literaturpreis
Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band

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Pluri-Rhythm is supported by the Kultursommerfestival Berlin.
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Contact

­Jan Trautmann

Lead Communications Officer
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin

T: + 49 (0) 30 397 87 195
presse@hkw.de