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Mbau
Mbau
Mbau

24 Nov 22 16:00H

Mbau

With Nandele

Mbau is a show that showcases processed ambiances and field recordings of Mozambique, ambient, experimental and electronic music from Africa and around the world.

Known as Boogie, a visual and street artist through the Reunion Island's duo, Kid Kreol & Boogie, it is under the alias Boogz Brown that he composes and creates his own sounds, imbued with tropicality, tradition, urbanity, and electronics. Since the late 90s, he has forged an experience in contact with the public, by being part of the underground Rap and Dancehall scene of the island. When his group splits, he focuses exclusively on composition and instrumental and gradually looks for closer tones and vibes of his geographic area. In November 2013, he won the first prize in the Beat Making Lab with the 'Mafana' track, which earned him a publication on the Maddecent label website (Major Lazer, Diplo, Baaeur, etc.). Member of the Kreol scene mixing electronic music and maloya (traditional music of Reunion Island) he appears on the Digital Kabar compilation of the French label infiné and releases the collaborative EP 'Antipode' with the Mexican producer Cubenx on this same label. Considering himself as a hybrid artist, he does not hesitate to orient himself in the styles he likes, using old and traditional elements in a contemporary way. Soundcloud link of his august 2019 's Dj Set @Le Sucre in Lyon, France: https://soundcloud.com/boogzbrown/digital-kabar-boogz-brown-le-sucre-240819


Nandele is one of the most innovative beatmakers, producers, and DJs coming from Mozambique. He is at the forefront of the alternative music scene with his mix of bass-heavy boom-bap instrumentals, dubstep, trap, psychedelic hip-hop beats, and the Makonde rhythms of Northern Mozambique. The son of the first black director of the Mozambican National Radio after the country's independence, this is where he gets his musical background by listening at an early age to a vast musical catalog ranging from Michael Jackson, Fela Kuti, Kanda Bongo Man, Santana, and Marvin Gaye, which he incorporates into his beat making.

A prolific producer and writer, Nandele has written music for contemporary dance performances, and films and has a number of band projects including Cantinho das Cores, The Mute Band (who won best new band at the Mozambican Music Awards in 2016) and Azagaia & Os Cortadores da Lenha. He has collaborated with artists such as Felix Laband (RSA), Dion Monti (CHF), Symbiz (DEU), and Boogz Brown (REU). He has graced stages at some of the biggest festivals in Southern Africa: Afropunk Johannesburg, MTN Bushfire Festival in Swaziland, and Azgo Festival in Mozambique. His first E.P. Argolas Deliciosas was released through Mozambican independent label Kongoloti Records, and he recently sold a cassette release on the label Insert Tapes in Sweden.

He produced music for the movie Resgate and it became the first Mozambican and African Portuguese-speaking country to have a movie on the streaming service Netflix. Nandele believes that through his music he can do the unimaginable... communicating and taking us on his journey to try to communicate with other planets…