Press Release Bad Bonn Kilbi 4.5.6 6.20

BAD BONN KILBI

4.5.6 6.20

PRESS RELEASE THU 4.6

070 SHAKE DEBONAIR B2B RIAN TREANOR (US) GOOD Music ACTRESS (UK) Planet Mu (UK) Ninja Tune Oh-Seven-Oh / G.O.O.D Music / Broken Car Electro / Just this Glitter London Underground / Shredded Elegance / Business-to-Business / 3186 Box of Computer Noises 4POPPY Ghettoville ONTHEROAD SAMIR KURTOV TRIO (CH) E&A RÜEGER (BUL) (CH) strecke, Blizzard Audio Club Confessions of Cosmopolitan Zurna King / Temporary Trans / Opium Eaters / Rave-Belle Dancing in the Midnight Sun / Drunk Melancholia About a Cause / Tekkno Ante Nicht die Hallfahnen strecke(n)! / Portas of Perception Subject The Endless SC‘ÖÖF (CH) Club Dänemark Records AHMEDOU AHMED ETHYOS 440 Intense Blök-Noise / Jazzy Post LOWLA (CH) Les Disques Magnétiques Punk / Das Lärmen der Lämmer (MRT) Sahel Sound Ultimate Late Night / Post-Future Sahel Groove / Analog & Sequencers / VAG TETO PRETO Synth-Freak-Hypnosis / (BRA) Mamba rec Cosmic Elbows FRANCE Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! / (FRA) AMAMI Gasolina Neles / Noise from the Boys / Trance Extravagant Nightclub Mood (CH) Les Disques Bongo Joe Mission / Lyre without Lyrics Super Shaggy / Gigantic Trip / A KALEIDOSCOPE Over Vitamin Positive GIRL BAND OF NOTHINGNESS (IE) Rough Trade Records (CH/US) ANGEL BAT DAWID Painkiller Punk / Multimedia Dreamscape / (US) International Anthem Rhythm’n’Rage / Men Group Hypnotic Cosmology / Jazzfreiheiten / Art as Experience Elegante Trauer / KASSEL JAEGER Seufzer der Bedrängten by Lautsprecher Orchester Freiburg CHROMATICS (FR/CH) Ina GRM (US) Italians Do It Better Music Electroacoustic Ecstasy / Kiffen für Alle / A Theory of Sound / DreamBeats / Noise is Beauty Italien Do It Better Even If they’re Americans MOE (NO) Conrad Sound DE-BONS-EN-PIERRE Fuzz Rock Bass / Noise Brass / (FR) Dark Entries Grindcore Jazz Once Around Your Pineal Gland / Thick & Sticky / OMNI SELASSI Dance Floor Perversions (CH) A Tree in a Field Records More Drums, More Groove / One-Way-Ticket to Psychedelia / Kraut-Space-Overdose FRI 5.6

100 GECS FILM 2 LEONI LEONI (US) Dog Show Records (CH) Oh, Sister Records / (CH) Fiasko Ltd. Bedroom Experimental PC Music Nightcore / Bubblegum Dream Pop / Lo-Fi Ambient / Bass / Deconstructed Club Viva La Noise / Punks ‘R Us / DIY from Bern Loud Fingers Inside Me 33EMYBW LORD APEX (CHN) SVBKVLT GABBER MODUS OPERANDI (UK) 10OUTOF10 / 0815NOWAY / (IDN) SVBKVLT / YES NO WAVE Sombre Stoner Rap / 01010101 Sky‘s Dark / Faster / Dudes / Kill! Kill! Under Londonground ALICE (CH) GÄNGSTGÄNG LOS PASHMINAS (CH) Microchorale Audacieuse / (CH) P(r)êcheuses du Quotidien / Rattle Rap / Hot Tempered Electronic Tripping / L‘Amour et la Violence Idealists / Delémont Rudeness NoBordersNoGenres / Vinyl Love AMNESIA SCANNER GOOOOOSE ET (FIN) PAN JOAN SHELLEY MAD MIRAN by Lautsprecher Orchester Mega Ritual/ Rave New World / (NL) Clone Records / art-aud Freiburg This will PAN out as Planned (CHN/CH) SVBKVLT Lekker Drum’n’Haze / 90’s Anarcho-Rave from the Harmonic Dissonance / Straight BIG FREEDIA Future (or 2090) / Syncopation / Natural Synthesis (US) Asylum-Records Gourmet Electro Queen Diva Booty Shaking / HORSE LORDS & Bouncefloor Monster / LOCAL ENSEMBLE SAMIR KURTOV TRIO Hyper Hop (BUL) (US/CH) Zurna King / Temporary Trans / Muscular Minimalism / BIG JOANIE Drunk Melancholia Daring and Energetic / (US) Repetitive Experimental The Daydream Library Series A KALEIDOSCOPE 80ies-DIY / 90ies-Riot-Grrrl / KAMAAL WILLIAMS OF NOTHINGNESS Black Feminist Punk (CH/US) (UK) Black Focus Records Multimedia Dreamscape / New School Jazz / Old School DINO BRANDAO Hypnotic Cosmology / Acid / Still Talkin‘ Loud 4 Hero (CH) Two Gentlemen Art as Experience The Sound of Skateboard KIT SEBASTIAN Silence / Hunger Sidekick / (TUR/FR) Mr Bongo Rodriguez 2.0 Tantra Mantra / World Psych / DJ MARCELLE Lots of Drugs till Anatolia (NL) Jahmoni Music LALALAR Dada Dub / (TUR) Les Disques Bongo Joe Extinct Animals Samba / Heart-shaped Music Boxes Turkish New Wave / Psychedelic Anatolian Dark Funk / Les Disques Bongo Joe SAT 6.6

ALICE IDLES ROB (CH) (UK) Partisan Records (GHA) Analog Africa Microchorale Audacieuse / I Want I Scream / AIL / African Throwback Thursday / P(r)êcheuses du Quotidien / Colosse aux Pieds d’Argile Funk That Shit Up! / L‘Amour et la Violence Cosmic Afrobeat High Priest JOAN SHELLY BBYMUTHA (US) No Quarter SCHADE (US) (CH) Cheptel Records Kentucky Summer Breeze / Hate on me / Sparkling Folk Magic / Bring Your Own Hat / Bet she’s Hot as Ever / Wood and Strings Synth Punk / Full Sentimental New Rules of Motherhood KAMPIRE & DECAY SQUID CEDRIC BLASER PRESENT: BUNU BOP (UK) (CH) (UGN) Nyege Nyege Tapes Art Punk, Fun Funk, Post Punk / Solo Universe / Caught in the Nyege Nyege / Uganda Now / Unpredictable Twists / Hypnoloop / Infinitely Endless New School Afro Wunderliches Speedy Wunderground CURL LOS BITCHOS (UK) Curl Recordings (UK) STEFANIE STAUFFACHER DIY-Collective / Chicha Cumbia Colombia / (CH) Blaublau Records Eclectic Electronic Music / Palm Bitch / Coconut Carraca Get what’s Coming Tulpen / Magen-Tarot / MC YALLAH & Sojasauce-Ego DE AMBASSADE DEBMASTER (NL) Knekelhuis (KEN/FR) Nyege Nyege Tapes SURFBORT (US) Cult Records Greyzone Amsterdam / No-Holds-Barred / Ugandian- New Netherlandish Wave / French Phantom Punch / Gucci Meets Punk / The Icon and Messenger of the Iceberg Hyper-Urgent HipHop the Veterans / Bombs of Joy

DJ FETT MCZO & DUKE VANLIGT FOLK Planet Rock (TZA) Nyege Nyege Tapes (SWE) Kontra-Musik Planet Rock / Endless Night / Tanzanian-Gabber / 200 bpm / Dance Absurdity / Body w/Family Fast and Furious Negativity / Scandinavian Heads

FELDERMELDER PETER KERNEL YUKO ARAKI (CH) -ous (CH) On the Camper Records (JPN) Commando Vanessa Kunstmusik / Artificial Post Pop, Rock or Punk? / Japanoise for the Boys (and Intelligence Electro / Musikkunst Noise and Silence / Heads of On Girls) / Eclectic Clouds / the Camper Records Lost in Instrumentation FELICIA ATKINSON by Lautsprecher Orchester Freiburg REYMOUR A KALEIDOSCOPE OF (FR/CH) Shelter Press (CH) Kin-ship / CAF? NOTHINGNESS (CH/US) Surrounding Whisper / Noisy Dancing in La La Land / Void / Vanishing Soundscapes Neo-Retromantics / Alcopop Multimedia Dreamscape / Hypnotic Cosmology / Art as Experience Hello

LAND IN SIGHT 1D

If there still is such a place, then Düdingen is the Numbers, abbreviations. We don’t always un- spot to re-invent yourself out of thin air. True, derstand. There are Vimeo-decisions or there the train-station could use a little more atten- is incessant listening to like different genres of tion. Even mayflies stand out. Sneakers look music. Let’s go! In Yo Ga tempo. Loud promises, like they’ve been prescribed by an orthopae- sounds that really need to sound out of vari- dist. Call it charming, diverse or efficient. Here ous and available speakers. Deers are fleeing desire only points in one direction. Moreover, since Hunter Kassel has his trigger finger on the incessant, aimless flock is back to roam the the dial and is shooting fine but strange bullets woodchip covered grounds. There is nothing to of sound across the meadows. It is a speaker win, but much to gain. Grüessech. Being differ- orchestra, Freiburg time. ent is noble. Feeding frenzy or feeling frenzy. Everything besides bliss is unimportant. We The party begins when the Bulgarians are whis- wish you three full days of it. Remember the tling from the stage. The hearts that follow the point of our labour is connected with the deci- rhythm of Samir Kurtov Trios, will survive and sion, where we spend our time. Along with the someday, somehow, somewhere marry. kids, today, having fun. From start to the end, she spreads good cheer. Objections within thirty years please, or we 070 SHAKE is firing gloomy and explosive beats keep going until the cows come home. into the mosh pit. Are you so free? She doesn’t want to be our everything but that won’t be easy. Pink Floyd or Thom Yorke perhaps knew NET OF TAGS that music like this would one day exist.

Kilbi is a hologram, a dive into a galaxy of light The CHROMATICS were always serious. Carried and sound. You emerge out of this three-sid- by the waft of an untouchable voice you float ed virtual world, which reality you can experi- over freeways and never want to return home. ence on a website, and jump or pirouette into In magnificent, absurd and broad sentences, the middle of it. she echoes into a void and yet touches every- one. Roll the tape. The fog is on its way. No matter how you are or what you wear. Kilbi is looking at humans under a microscope. Nar- In accompaniment or in the guidance of rated by individuals, phenomena’s, the human four-handed, experimental, industrial-Techno substance and its reality. We love and live with DE BONS EN PIERRE send a demon to the cen- poise. tre of rave. The party is a performance and provocative celebration. A little delay can change a lot, always a little late becomes nonchalantly, permanently alive. In futuristic armour or favourite costumes, Stay at it and in it, copy trance explosions, float TETO PRETO provokes and manifests as the with synth-pop grooves whilst twerking those probably most political collective of Brazil. In mountains away. The festival starts with post- the floodlight of XIV they play and perform punk, keeps going and comes back to it at the techno, house, jazz or garage-punk à la trop- end, at the bar for example, the first morning icale. Only football has a finale for everyone. after, with DJ ping pong between actress and They leave more than just a mark against the debonair. The sun rises and our good mood lin- repression of the queer scene. gers on. 2D Icy-cold electronics bring some warmth for ALICE complains! They love, sing in sideswipes. the NDW, ragas or rave. Behind the nickname Catastrophes come with the refrain and or front of DE AMBASSADE hides the syn- rhythm with verses. And suddenly he’s gone. thesizer magician von Dollkraut. Mysterious Three voices, two Synthesizers and fingertip Dutch, Knekelhuis-like stories and very beau- compositions, from this humorous and odd Ge- tiful. Therefore, it sounds logical they get the nevan trio. same slot as John Maus did two years ago. In- finite drum dance for striped black and white They could play «Mantra modern» for hours. This thoughts, shaking heavily. song from KIT SEBASTIAN sounds like it always existed. It’s Anatolian samba jazz in a psyche- To say BBYMUTHA will be the crowd’s darling delic wrapping, he sounds a bit like a bonvivants is a blatant but truthful allegation. Her south- who strayed off into a synthesizer-museum and ern flair, her cool and undistorted, loving way turned analogue high-end material into lo-fi. of fighting for the women in our society left it’s marks and makes indie-pop fans forget about The Indonesian duo GABBER MODUS OPERAN- their fear of rap. A single parent mother from DI are the fulfilment or sum of our memories. Tennessee, who is a role model for young MC’s. Gabber, hard techno, footwork, grind, noise, Gamelan samples, Dangdut Koplo or Jathilan oc- cur, and when they cook in Asia they can add as AROUND OLTEN much as they want, it just keeps getting better. Where they want to go, they’re not allowed The originally came from the internet-subcul- to know. The Swiss music scene has been su- ture. From Finland. Now they live in Berlin. The per for a while now. Without having to break aim is to find the AMNESIA SCANNER room at through anything. Changing directions is per- every concert. They are unpredictable and an- mitted at all times. ti-Anglocentric. They like distorted reggaeton and sick pop. Imperfect and not too abstract. When we say do it yourself we mean OMNI SE- Trialled and tested at concerts. LASSI and SCHADE. Those two examples of DIY will award a note of psychedelic to any neat club. On artificial grass, cables connect ma- 3D chines with people, guitars and synthesizers. We love some romance and noise from the bor- Saturday start with a lot of noise with a mix of der triangle of Bienne. analogue and digital sounds, English and French chanting. Three quarters of an hour of poetry Of course, back then one of the best Swiss from FELICIA ATKINSON on piano. post-trop bands of the world was missing at the CBGB. Genius song writing from Aris, true Our tip, silly dancing. The IDLES from Bristol are performance from Barbara, spontaneous hu- the punk bastards of our time. They plunge into mour, freakishly good. PETER KERNEL can do the fray, in the battle against injustice. Their it quiet or loud. Exclusive on Kilbi’s big stage. concerts feel like a football game. Everyone is singing and no one is playing football. STEFANIE STAUFFACHER and Constant Hiatus aka Lara Stoll and Lukas Marty are performing. With the crews of NYEGE NYEGE a label from That much is clear. They will show them coun- Uganda, the world loses control. KAMPIRE & try bumpkins how to make a ruckus. It is intra- DECAY are probably the most thorough and venous punk and whoever crowd-surfs will get creative figures of the collective. They come their pockets filled with gold. XL the fun and with themselves as a present from East Afri- extraversed the spectacle. The only Austrian ca. Their show BUNU BOP is currently the best show is happening in Switzerland. of the party culture of Kampala! Together or in line with MC YALLAH & DEBMASTER they bring the house or rather arc down, with rap over heavy beats. Is the romantic adventure REYMOUR love and keys are with 33EMYBW. She is the new star folly? A duo, a pair from Fribourg is leaving for on the cellars night-sky. Limb Dance is what Brussels. The label Caf? from Vevey is releasing you call her uncompromising playing style. their EP «Sarabande à deux». Sarabande, or the Her tracks are out for confrontation! Her la- forbidden erotic dream. They smell like beer and bel-mate GOOOOOSE will test the reach of the they celebrate it, daringly moving into crowds speaker’s orchestra. of unruly but cheerful people.

FILM 2 is a stroboscope and during the day an ALLER RETOUR unbelievable, razor-sharp sounding noise rock- et, blasting towards a tiny target. Big bang! On fait un peu ce que les gens ils aiment. In the ideal case, our visitors will leave us with this Something is moving. AMAMI and ETHYOS 440 feeling. It matters not what they play but when from Geneva. That means terms like; Bongo Joe, and how they do it. For a good Kilbi rough dia- Dancehall, Electropop, Tropicool Funk Storm, monds are sometimes the brightest. Eclair, Dj Laxeste A et la vie est en rosé. With consideration, in the name of minorities and with the hope it suits all of you; we give ev- STRAND erything and still have some left.

Looking at music and listening to the water. I should’ve stayed in Düdingen. Marking a book, or looking at pictures out of a Pour la fin des temps. full heart without having to think. We present And with a Sinalco (swiss beverage) in my hand. four acts and an installation down by the lake. It takes a whole village to raise a festival and it Rébétez the GÄNGSTGÄNG wordsmith is ham- takes the whole crowd of a festival to under- mering words out like crazy in the sand. The stand a band. bass resounds across the lake and electric si- We thank you for your patience and loyalty. rens float away. The installation A KALEIDOSCOPE OF NOTH- Epadezyt INGNESS is hanging from the trees and in the aura of CÉDRIC BLASER, who gives his hypnotic Daniel Fontana soundscapes space and time. His music stands Tonverein Bad Bonn for sustainability and relaxation. The hum of the bees combined with the fine vocal melodies of LEONI LEONI transform into a polyphonic choir. Sarah, Lisa and Yvonne are ALICE, “seems logical” says the captain of the boat and joins in song.

A GAUCHEMAR

Quelle FRANCE! Vive La Trance. The crazy French drill their guitar sounds with a constant drone, into your soul. Join or leave. There is no in-between.

Feeling in my zone, give a dog a bone. London’s Lo-Fi Rapper LORD APEX feels like being home and confirms our passion to feel cradled in non- sense whilst jumping around in black hoodies.

SVBCVLT is an experimental club-music label from Shanghai and stands for lifestyle. The Information

EVENT DIRECTIONS HOTELS 30th Bad Bonn Kilbi For different offers check BY CAR kilbi.badbonn.ch Düdingen is located right at the highway between Bern and DATE ­Fribourg. There are signs just DRINKS & FOOD 4th –6st June 2020 off the highway exit Düdingen. Various bars and food stalls

BY TRAIN With the S1 from Fribourg or ORGANISATION Bern (sbb.ch). The festival site DOORS Tonverein Bad Bonn is within walking distance of the Thursday 2 pm Düdingen train station. The walk Friday 2 pm Bonn 2 takes approximately 15 minutes. Saturday 2 pm P.O. Box 17 CH-3186 Düdingen +41 26 493 11 15 SHUTTLEBUS [email protected] From 2am CONTACT badbonn.ch Fee one way Bern CHF 15.– Daniel Fontana Fee one way Fribourg CHF 8.– [email protected] TICKET PRICES 3-day pass CHF 180.– Thursday CHF 78.– PARKING Patrick Boschung Friday CHF 78.– [email protected] Saturday CHF 78.– Parking nearby costs CHF 5.–

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