BAD BONN KILBI 2.3.4. 6.17 WWW.BADBONN.CH PRESS RELEASE FRIday 2.6.17

SLEEP (US) N.M.O. (ES / NO) DUBAI SPRINTERS (CH) Sleep with me, Diagonal, Anòmia, Psychotic camels Be high on fire, say “OM” The Death Of Rave, Where To Now? On ear handies Dance to a neurotic beat! Techno live sports Handies on air This duo needs room And you and us ANGEL OLSEN (US) PURE MANIA (CH / UK / CAN) Jagjaguwar Ignorance is all the bliss there is Shut up, kiss her AFRIRAMPO (JP) There’s no business like drone This fire will never cease to burn J-Punk business Turn on the white noise Oh my, woman! Osaka anarchy Two girls one feel-good feminism UFO (CH) JACQUES (FR) A Tree in a Field Records Pain Surprises NORBERTO LOBO (PT) Improvise – Deconstruct – Recreate Techno transversale three:four records Overcome grim reality through Shaved skull Spider hand on wood guitar grimm reality Tout est bizarre Electric landscapes Everything is a remix in a molecular Acoustic webs like no one else sound-lab

FLAMINGODS (BRN) Soundway Records LORD KESSELI AND H E X (CH) British-arabic bedroom folkadelia THE DRUMS (CH) Mass hypnosis on Kassette HEX HEX HEX Online-instrumentalism Ikarus Records Rhythm and field recordings Romandie’s finest Holy spaceage Angel of heaven PUCE MARY (DK) God is a Kesseli Posh Isolation, iDEAL Recordings Haunted singing voices LENA WILLIKENS (DE) Foggy and gloomy melodies Cómeme, Salon des Amateurs Noisy electronic clouds Cologne still rules Electronic glasses IDRIS ACKAMOOR & Head to the ground, feet in the air THE PYRAMIDS (US) Strut, Philophon, Disko B YAK (UK) We be all africans Rough Trade Cosmic Jazz for the new dark ages art Hyperactively electric Ensemble? Arkestra? Ackamoor! Like a pacemaker on steroids SATURday 3.6.17

THE MOON­ NOT WAVING (UK) BÖSE WICHT AND HIS LANDINGZ (UK) Diagonal BÖSE MONSTERS (CH) Pias Italo disco for the dark and sophisticated Sounds from the dark THE psych pop super group Post-Punk-EDM Words from the evil For misfits in love Mister analogue Alessio Natalizia Outfits from the extraterrestrial sides of life

OOIOO (JP) XYLOURIS WHITE (GR / US) DJ MARCELLE (NL) Thrill Jockey Other Music Recording Co., Bella Union Jahmoni This Is Not Your Average Girl Group Curly avant-garde brothers In an ideal world oʊoʊaioʊoʊ Mesmerizing shreds of lutes and drums DJ Marcelle would be Boredoms’ revenge Transcending stylistic and geographic everyone’s favourite DJ horizons

THIS IS NOT THIS GALOPP (CH) ULTIMATE PAINTING (UK) HEAT (UK) Trouble In Mind Hold your horses Music is prettiest when imperfect This is not the cult experimental band Silent anthems Tronicgaze & honey days it sounds to be. Unhurried VU Or maybe this is. Don’t disturb them ALLANDY SHANTY (CH) PRINCESS NOKIA (US) DENGUE DENGUE A tent, a man, let’s talk Vice Records DENGUE! (PE) Who that is, hoe? Pussy grabs back Enchufada High energy rap-punches Pow Pow Pow! Lima’s euphoric duo paints the night A psychoelectropic swirl Ride the neon-masked snake OLIVER COATES (UK) Slip, Prah NAHAWA DOUMBIA (ML) collaborator Awesome Tapes From Africa Cello à gogo Post-classical journey Grande dame de Mali World Women Wassoulou Music Awesome African Tapes MANDOLIN SISTERS (IND) PILL (US) Progressively traditional Mexican Summer Indian tunes in tune Karnātaka sangītam, or: Healing Post-No-Wave-Punk Drone to the bone Rough emotional protest Drugs do work Sunday 4.6.17

KING GIZZARD KHIDJA (RO) MDOU MOCTAR (NG) AND THE LIZARD Hivern Discs, P-Balans, Especial, Sahel Sounds Malka Tuti, Romania WIZARD (AUS) A Tuareg in love This is art to dance for Autodidact & Autotune Heavenly Recordings Turns your wedding party into a psych fest Psychedelic Rock Perpetuum On and on fits it all SHOW ME THE BODY (US) Zzzzzzzzzzz Loma Vista PANDOUR (CH) Bodychecks against broken NYC Post funky kraut vs new afro BPM from Free-bourg ANNA MEREDITH (UK) Distorted banjo goes Rap-infected Hardcore-Punk Switzerland! Moshi Moshi Renowned classical composer Symphonic mindfuck MITSKI (US) INFINITE BISOUS (UK) There’s an ensemble on the dancefloor! Dead Oceans Tasty Morsels Mitski oder ohne Lullabies for cold beds Smells like teen romance EXPLODED VIEW (MX / UK) Big in Japan Purity meets puberty Dream your dream Sacred Bones Lethargic lamentations A manic wave or a visceral disco groove SCHNELLERTOLLER- AUTISTI Louis Jucker & Emilie Zoé (CH) Oh, eerie airiness Hummus Records, Czar of Revelations, (CH) MEIER S.K.Records Cuneiform Records (US) Forest, shut up! (UK) GAIKA Jazz-no-Jazz Tausendsassa’s new Noiserock group WARP Records Three as one Aaron Beam is right Melting Core Ghetto futurism Gothic dancehall NON worldwide affiliate WHITE WINE (DE) (CAN) JESSY LANZA This Charming Man Hyperdub Who cares KAITLYN AURELIA Oh, yes – it means I love you 32nd Knot SMITH (US) The beauty in the middle of the night Wild wine Lighted by neon lights Western Vinyl

Orca girl DJ FETT (DE) High-jacked by a synthesizer nature ONE SENTENCE. Planet Rock Sound painting (CH) SUPERVISOR Soulfood Oh, Sister Records DJ Kilbi WEYES BLOOD (US) Swiss made Kraut-Pop Endless love Mexican Summer Unzeitgemässe Temporärmusik Reverb-soaked dance-scapes Tender harmonies ALLANDY SHANTY (CH) Y-O-L-O, why? Unsettling front row seat A tent, a man, let’s talk edito- rial

Let’s start with a brief history of KNOW HOW – SO MIAU MIAU NOW – KATZ GRAU KILBI. It all began with an accident in FRIDAY 2 JUNE 2017 SATURDAY 3 JUNE 2017 the year 1991. Since then, we’ve written 26 chapters to choose from, We love the cats. They remain un- KILBI is through with pop after pop. filled with stories of relentless changed. Privileged to witness this, No one stays idle on the devil’s bantering, musical odysseys, the we do the same. While amps with playground. Day two is poetry and KILBI and us. And again, as it’s blaring tubes reverberate past hymns, anti-hierarchy. The great ones are tradition, we offer incoherent and the old town of Düdingen will hail getting smaller and deny others to speak. untranslatable sentences. They us crazy – and it’s true, we are. Being THE MOONLANDINGZ visit us with belong to us like that green-brown strange out of joy and leaving traces, Rock’n’All from outer space, they’ve reservoir near the grey house, where is the assignment that music gives landed in the right spot. Every the most unbelievable musical things us. We dare not disappoint. song has an ending, even if played happen, throughout the whole year. endlessly. There is also room for Those promises, and those trivial ANGEL OLSEN disagreement. Early in the afternoon sentences are now recycled. We stick After an initial guest appearance with we start with techno from Kinshasa. them into cheap fortune cookies and Bonnie Prince Billy she came back On homemade instruments, on type­ leave them on the counters of our with her band to outshine the sun and writers that perforate cans and nail favorite bars and venues between now she’s back with new songs, boards that act as harps. The dancing Geneva and ­St Gallen. offering the audience her blessings. in circles around the piled up speakers The water drops on her face ain’t comes from deep within the gut. We can’t wait to see all the city and rain but tears mixed with sweat, country kids and of course our older fueled by an arrangement of strings, PRINCESS NOKIA dogs, drag their outfits and bags keys, brass and vocals. Suddenly With powerful beats she confidently past the cattle, with unprecedented everything erupts. This is ANGEL rages against the world, which has joy to fuse with strangers near Lake OLSEN. She is crazy. Her folk is personal. never treated PRINCESS NOKIA fairly. Schiffenen once again. She is pleasant, humorous and at SLEEP the same time a rebel. She is the punk A lot of exciting music awaits you. We You’ve probably dreamt about this of the hip-hop scene and the voice got straight down to business, many stoner rock in your sleep. SLEEP are of feminism. soliloquies and phone calls later we considered to be the Inspiration managed to book acts from far and and role models of Kyuss. With “Dope- OOIOO near and we drawed a timetable smoker” they’ve probably recorded Yoshimi P-We is the Japanese for you. Slowly we’re building up a the slowest metal record in history. A goddess of noise-rock. She is one of resistance to bullshit, but if you find masterpiece and our anticipation is the central characters of the band some, let’s call it a matter of taste, at least as enormous as their psyche- Boredoms. Originally she created something for the soul or your biogra- delic Doom-Metal. SLEEP is a living OOIOO as a fake band for a fashion phy. We stick to our boutique festivi- masterpiece that slowly moves with magazine, towards the end of the ties, and connect different genres a trembling force. 90’s she then started playing as a and music fans in one spot, where proper band, to open for Sonic ­Youth. they can feel undisturbedly disturbed. JACQUES Their shows guarantee a spectacle Transversal techno is what describes between Prog and Kraut. It’s not all “fake news” in 2017 folks! We the music of JACQUES. A curious guarantee you unfiltered musical truth character. Everything is wonderful, at nuggets. We take some risks, venture into times even without hair. JACQUES unchartered land and seek out the attaque! He composes electronic music that is original, or has something music, music that makes the normal to say. The big names play somewhere and the strange dance side by side. else. We like to ­feel challenged. o o o

THIS IS NOT THIS HEAT GRAU BLAU – BIS BALD WEYES BLOOD THIS HEAT sounded like the future SUNDAY 4 JUNE 2017 This Californian beauty with feathers back in 1976. They still do. They were in her hair and a voice like honey, will never about being popular. Hailing We color in what floats into our minds touch you deeply, like a heavy embrace from the South- suburb of Brixton as a sketch. It’s actually just a normal enshrouded in a little grief. To experi- they move between , day, but it starts crazier than the last ence a beautiful moment of solace in Musique Concrete and Dub-Reggae. two. Madness is with us in the cantina the midst of a large crowd is quite After Gareth Williams died in 2001 tent. SHOW ME THE BODY the ultra-­ something else. Try it. You will know Bullen and Hayward decided to resur- brute hardcore group out of New York. WEYES BLOOD is an artist. rect the band under the name THIS IS Rap, anger, No-Wave, avant-garde, NOT HEAT, creating an ensemble post-punk, atmospheric bluesy GAIKA of Avant-rock. moments, jazz core-riffs and hammer- This undaunted guy from Bristol grew ing basslines. A killer combo! And up with academics and murderers OLIVER COATES directly after the best Swiss Kraut- or alike. He loves to experiment, always This cellist from London is the new pop band. ONE SENTENCE. SUPER­ with the main goal of getting people’s Arthur Russel. He is a virtuoso VISOR play for tea time. The best time groove on. Pulsating auto-tuned who moves comfortably from and to to realize how good they are. It’s vocals stick out distinctively over Grime-, the dancefloor to experiment never about who comes before or Trap- and Dance-Hall elements with pop and classical pieces. OLIVER what after happens when you lose control. blended with spherical electronical COATES played with London’s melodies. Sinfonietta, he played with Radiohead KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD on their latest album, and he pro- are a killer-glam group from Mel- duced the soundtrack “remain calm” bourne. The two drummers chase rattle­ with Mica Levi. Now he asks us to join snakes across the fields with the help EXOTRICK him in dance at KILBI. of a guitar-armada. Roaring, thunder- ing and hypnotizing, they have Where are the cracks, and how could infused their songs with some recent- more madness even enter? Maybe ly acquired Oriental flavors. with a big portion of kisses to start with. INFINITIE BISOUS is Rory ANNA MEREDITH McCarthy. He lives in Paris and played At nightfall the sunset belongs to here before at KILBI with Connan British ANNA MEREDITH, who has Mockasin. He likes Lo-Fi and bizarre gotten a lot of attention in the Japanese pop. ­electro-composer scene. Avant-garde orchestral tunes mixed with heavy With Danish PUCE MARY goose- beats and crystal-clear voices. You can’t bumps and panic attacks are guaran- put that in any drawer nor can you teed. Reverb, distortion, synth, label it. Who needs labels anyway? slo-mo and screams are part of the It’s going to be wild. program.

The concerts of the MANDOLIN SISTERS are a real trip. They take you on a trance journey of classical Raga through to traditional south Indian music. o o o

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Playing is more important then KILBI is an ever moving target. By writing. This applies to kids as well as the time you think you get it, we have to our bands from around the moun- already moved somewhere else. tains. We like to interfere with our local Renewables don’t scratch us. We follow bands a bit, not in an obscene way tracks to oblivion. We continue our of course, but just to stir things up a path with a passion and zeal. Also little. We offer good and bad time- remember folks, culture isn’t a matter slots, sometimes even justified. of life and death. Because for the greater good a lack of common sense is sometimes It’s not about optimizing. Unimportant, necessary. beautiful and trivial experiences matter. In a cozy tent accompanied by Around witching hour of the opening some chai tea an experiment called night, the collaboration LORD KESSELI “digital meditation” is carried out, & THE DRUMS will take to the stage. where what’s app is used as a way of They will both make their fans levitate communication. We are curious in a psychedelic trance, half a meter ourselves. above ground, engulfed by the smell of incense. We are certain that you will You don’t need to know much or adopt them. anything at all about KILBI. You just need to like it, or it can be a hard The Strobo-Rave of PURE MANIA pill to swallow. If you need any help invites you to lose orientation. Their just approach anyone from our lovely Psycho-Splitter-Core isn’t for KILBI team of boys and girls. the faint hearted. Un truc de fou. Un, deux, crois, pas! If you find Or the performance of BÖSE WICHT any faults with KILBI 2017, you can AND HIS BÖSE MONSTERS. Is keep them. this church music? Or am I in an adult movie theater? Endless questions. To a future where electronic cats Art for sale. ­mingle with analogue dogs. Be colorful! Be wild! All you need is Dorf.com The uncompromising Trio from We are excited and welcome you! Lucerne, SCHNELLERTOLLERMEIER certainly has a stage presence. Support your local virus. You only realize what they’re about, when you try to talk about them. Tonverein Bad Bonn Daniel Fontana Everyone needs a golden calf. We have our own directly from Fribourg! The greatest around these realms! We haven’t forgotten what you sound like. We know what you look like. We love what you drink. PANDOUR! Inspired by Jazz, Kraut or Afro-Funk. They announce a surprise. informa- tion EVENT DIRECTIONS CONTACT 27th Bad Bonn Kilbi Daniel Fontana BY CAR [email protected] Düdingen is located right at the DATE highway between Bern and Fribourg. Patrick Boschung 2 – 4 June 2017 There are signs just off the highway [email protected] exit Düdingen. ORGANISATION Tonverein Bad Bonn BY TRAIN Bonn 2 With the S1 from Fribourg or Bern P.O. Box 17 (sbb.ch). The festival site is within CH-3186 Düdingen walking distance of the Düdingen +41 (0)26 493 11 15 train station. The walk takes approxi- [email protected] mately 15 minutes. badbonn.ch SHUTTLEBUS FROM 2 AM TICKET PRICES Fee one way Bern CHF 15.– 3-day pass CHF 180.– Fee one way Fribourg CHF 8.– Friday CHF 78.– Saturday CHF 78.– PARKING Sunday CHF 78.– Parking nearby costs CHF 5.–

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