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DEERHUNTER (US) WARMDUSCHER (UK) JIMI JULES + ­KALABRESE 4AD The Leaf Label (CH) Zukunft Records Popcyclopedy 2.0 / Hype for London’s Weirdest Boogie Music Lovers / Indie Champions Band / It’s Krautastic / Underground Dance Music / League To Be or not Two Beer? Züri à la Campagne / Prosecco Turntable Mafia EXPLODED VIEW (UK/MX) UUUU (UK) Sacred Bones Editions Mego GIBRALTAR VACUUM (CH) OUS Lethargic Lamentations / Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! / Tomaga it ­ A Manic Wave or a Visceral Disco and Wire the Coil Dome / Guess who’s the Domain Detector / Groove / Oh, Eerie Airiness Schizophrenic Seething/Soo- Where there’s a Will, there’s thing Masterpiece a Street / Take ’em down and Make ’em Dance JOHN MAUS (US) Ribbon Music, Domino Records BONAVENTURE (CH) STELLA CHIWESHE (ZWE) New-Post-Philosophical / Music as an Act of War / Glitterbeat Dream-Wave / Blade Runner Congo – Switzerland – Stomp Portugal / NON Worldwide Mbira Queen of Zimbab- we / Pluck, pluck, pluck: This ain’t the Sound of a Duck! / Trance for TSHEGUE (F / RDC) AIR LQD (BE) Intermediates Ekler’o’shock Unknown Precept

Extreme Tribal Energy / Going Razor Sharp / Neck-Breaking / ESTER POLY (CH) Mad / Afro-Punk Heart Attack Musical Hysteria to Spite your Ikarus Records Face Two Generations – One Groove / NICK HAKIM (US) The Soul of Punk / The Essence ATO records PETER CONRADIN of Two Instruments ZUMTHOR (CH) Best of Best of / Soul to Soul / Green is ALOIS (CH) The Art of Loneliness / the New Rainbow Red Brick Chapel Highspeed Sound Architecture / Trapped in a Tarkowski Dreams from Lucerne / NIHILOXICA (UGA/UK) Flowers are growing / Reality Nyege Nyege Tapes GOLDEN DAWN Independent Check Ethno Techno AnNIHILation / ­ARKESTRA (US) You can spell Minimal without Nine Miles Records LAUTSPRECHER «Fun» / Cross-Continental ­ORCHESTER FREIBURG Tribal Darkness Psychedeliric Cosmofunk / (CH) Always tend to the Light / Afropocalypse, Sama Chaka! Surround Sound Masterclass / 3 Days, 3 Stages, 3 Performances / Speaker Madness Prologue fri 1.6

JAMES HOLDEN + REVEREND BEAT-MAN HANRETI (CH) Little Jig Records THE ANIMAL SPIRITS (UK) AND THE NEW WAVE Border Community (CH) Hippieshit & Alternative Voodoo Rhythm Records Funk / Lucernian Deep See Spiritualized / World-Trance-­ Dream / Salsa Caliente! Jazz-Folk-Electronica / Blues-Trash / New-Wave-Folk / Yes We Can Dark-No-Wave SAVAGE GROUNDS (CH) Lux Rec, Enfant Terrible, Pinkman THE MYSTERY OF THE VAGABON (US) BULGARIAN VOICES FT, Unpleasant Music for Unpleasant Persien Garden Cassette / People / Roland / The Comfort LISA GERRARD (BUL / AUS) Infinite Brooklyn Rock / of Agony Schubert Music, Prophecy Shark eats Fish

Myth vs Creation / History vs ANDREW WEATHERALL PONY (CH) Story / DCD in Bulgaria Irascible (UK) ALFOS, The Woodleigh Riding the Beauty / Art-Music KHRUANGBIN (US) Research Facility meets Music-Art / Love to Love Night Time Stories Two Lone Sabres of Paradise / Laid-back Soundtrack, Ear Electronic Weather ­Forecast / MELISSA KASSAB (CH) Snack, Groove Attack / Wanderlust Beats till you Die Cheptel Records in a Nutshell / Go West, er…East, er…Back! Mind out of Time / Floating ISOLATED LINES (CH) in Weightlessness / Emotional SBIRE, Illegal Alien, 47 Kaleidoscope CATERINA BARBIERI (IT) Important Records Experimental Techno Experience / Heavy and Intense Sound SCHUBOT / GRADINGER Symphony Nr. 5 for Synthesizer, ­Waves / Eardrum Buster Bass (MARS) «Adagio» / Experimental Electronic In collaboration with­ Elegance / Surfing the Sine Wave Südpol Luzern LIDO PIMIENTA (CAN/COL) Extraterrestrial Dance / Retour à LA TÉNE + GUESTS (CH/F) Björk x Avantgarde-Afro / Latin la Nature / Watching them is like Les Disques Bongo Joe, from Colombia’n’Canada / Dark Hearing SUNN O)) with your Eyes Three:Four Electro Shit

Instruments from the Past / HARVEY RUSHMORE + LAUTSPRECHER Out of Time Drones / Medieval ORCHESTER FREIBURG is the New Psychedelic THE OCTOPUS (CH) (CH) Psych Rushes from the Past / ­ DOWNTOWN BOYS (US) Surround Sound Masterclass / Audiovisual Adventure / Sub Pop 3 Days, 3 Stages, 3 Performances / Surf Wave from Basel Speaker Madness Prologue Girls, Boys, Revolution / Uptown Punk / Hi-Energy ZIUR Planet Mu

The Devil’s Advocate / The Loud and the Furious / Techno, Trance and Noise in a Blender sat 2.6

SEVDALIZA (NL) GIANT SWAN (UK) ORCHESTRE LES Twisted Elegance Timedance, Mannequin MANGELEPA (RDC/KEN) Strut Chemical Origin of the World / Punching Good Times/ Synth-Organic Beat / Ancient Best-Punks-do-Techno / Cygnus Rumba Congolaise / Bittersweet Consciousness Falconeri Kills’em All Harmonies / Hypnotic Relaxation

HORSE LORDS (US) THE MASTER EAST SISTER (CH) Northern Spy MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA Red Brick Chapel Instrumental & Hypnotic / Inter- LED BY BACHIR ATTAR Give yourself into the Open ventional /Against the Status Quo (MAR) Arms / Melancholia / Walking Jajouka Records on Clouds PAN DAIJING (CHN) Boujeloudia Magic / Ancient PAN Pillars of Music / Sufi Trance / FRIENDLY FIRE (CH) Welcome to your Interzone Solo Asian Noise Bombasion / Spectral Nano Noise / Fire The Proof that Sonics are Physical / Friendly / Short Wave Radio A Soundo-Maso ­Pleasure NADAH EL SHAZLY (EGY) Cyber Manipulation Nawa Recordings AHMED=NEW JAZZ Brave New Soundscape / Stirring DJ FETT (DE) IMAGINATION (UK) Events / I’m Changed Forever / Planet Rock Umlaut Records Surreal & Super-Real Rock’n’Roll Disko / Finest Afro ! Futuristic Interpretation ! / Party / Hits Hits Hits DJ MARCELLE (NL) Science Friction / A Newly Jahmoni Creative Space Mixing Sounds, MELISSA KASSAB (CH) Ethics & Beliefs Absurd Bass Techno / Avant-Garde Cheptel Records Ethno / For Advised Dancers Only FLAT WORMS (US) Mind out of Time / Floating Castle Face in Weightlessness / Emotional HERE LIES MAN (US) Kaleidoscope Riding Easy Records Punk Post Punk / In Your Face / Like Good Old Times Algorithm Afro Rock / West Africa SCHUBOT / GRADINGER is in L.A. / Heavy Funk Hypnosis (MARS) MIDNIGHT SISTER (US) In collaboration Jagjaguwar DEENA ABDELWAHED with Südpol Luzern (TUN) InFiné Sad Disco for Weird People / Extraterrestrial Dance / Retour Moonlight Glamour / Hollywood à la Nature / Watching Them Tunisian Techno Tailored in Hurdy-Gurdy is Like Hearing SUNN O)) with Toulouse / Confrontation & your Eyes Claustrophobia / Chop and Twist, INJURY RESERVE (US) Throat and Fist! La Fuegas LAUTSPRECHER FAKA (ZA) ORCHESTER FREIBURG Dentists Nightmare / (CH) Weirdo-Rap / Oh Shit!!! African Protest Rave / Occupy Gender Roles / High Fashion Surround Sound Masterclass / Tribal Art 3 Days, 3 Stages, 3 Performances / Speaker Madness Prologue editorial

Relax. It’s what the street from We have two news. A good one DEERHUNTER San Dudingo invites you to do. It and a better one. First the worse. BRADFORD COX is something rolls from the train station in Most of the 2018 Kilbi line up like the most unlikely star of direction of the lake. In the begin- is, as usual, quite unheard-of. Indierock. He’s a master of the ning it’s still wide, there’s traf- And the better news: We like it ambivalence. He has fun laying fic rules and a middle parting. this way. As ever. It feels like false trails. You should be a Then it becomes narrower and a never-ending original mix- committed listener when DEER- tighter and leads you through tape-jumble without bounds. We HUNTER are playing their beauti- a little district along mad-red look at Kilbi as a source of fun— ful, coherent melodies. We garden decorations. Survival lasting for three full days. It’s almost hope he’s still as negative instincts report back, a grumpy going to be rough but great. as he used to be. Life is a succes- looking man, sometimes a wom­ - sion of mistakes. This sentence an, ­is waving back from their gar- Kilbi works like a sound carrier, a seems promising. Definitely one den. You tip the town one Kilbi CD, a facilitator, with the goal to of the bands that doesn’t need a goer further off kilter, and march discover new music together new album. past vibrant green fields with with everyone else. In the 90’s long steps and your favourite the compact disc logo was TSHEGUE music from your headphones. The probably one of the most fre- Faty is the lead singer of TSHEG- dog is limping after you, casually, quently printed ones, today it UE and from Kinshasa. Music is only to become apparent as it has disappeared. As a tribute to her life. Back when she was a cocks an ear trying to find out those times, a font and a logo pupil she played in brass bands. where you’re coming from. That’s has been specially and exclusive- This band was founded only one the kind of arrival we wish for ly designed for Kilbi, in order to year ago. Their afropunk is and promise you and it’s the way keep these memories alive. urgent. It’s about the alive. They we have been experiencing it combine the jerky Ndombolo- ourselves over and over again. THURS-TY—Thursday 31 May and Kotazo rhythms with tribal- Just another 100 meters until Am I deluded? Is it a tomorage, or garage rock. landing. Here lies beauty. There- an oasis, with people raving and fore, we stop, take a picture racing? Is there the music that JOHN MAUS and do it again and wilder again loves me? If influencers show up, The Doctor in philosophy is the —­Kilbi. The twentyeighth edition, it’s pure pleasure. We have a secret pop star. Music can’t that’s how it’s going to kick off. different approach to the prob- possibly be more pressing. lem of the future of punk. We’ll Hardcore pop. He goes beyond Wait a minute. I had a mains- get right to it. The percussionist, limits. We almost worry about dream. We drink coffee. Unfamiliar the drummer PETER CONRADIN him. That’s how intense his show acquaintances tell stories about ZUMTHOR. His natural and is. He doesn’t take himself too Non-Switzerland (or Near-East-­ obvious independence combined seriously, what he saves on Switzerland). A swiss-sausage-salad­ with such devotion to music is a himself he lavashes on music. His has the power to fix it all. Afro- pure joy. The opening perfor- self irony and wisdom make you core. Coming off nights in halls and mance from this honest and want to suffer with him and to safes. The Tequila Surprise an- great artist and his unique dance. noys. Turn off the radio. Or stay at feeling for the creation of drum home. Right off life. That’s too music guarantee the magic ROYALL—Friday 1 June sweet. The Beat is mad. Artichok- moment. Without compromise— The Italian sound scientist ers raid the fridge. Where choirs and go! The sounds are changing CATERINA BARBIERI will prove to rise. Kilbi is the sum of such across the fields and they’re the early birds that her modular experiences, mischief or thoughts. peacefully penetrating through synthesizer-compositions do Luckily they always take part in windows into the inside of more than just work, even in the decision about the choice of neighbouring houses and sheds. daylight. Her electro accoustic music. That’s how we have been stories are enchanting. An rolling for years. It’s about taking afternoon we might never want a bit of risk, going a bit nuts, not to go by. Gold only shines if it’s about the fear not to win. Actually sure of its colour. Worth getting all this should be in brackets, it’s out of your hammock in time for our brattitude. that one. > > >

THE MYSTERY OF THE BULGARI- away and touch down again. The PRO FUTURA AN VOICES FT. LISA GERRARD take off is crazy. The pleasant Who’s actually in charge of were founded in 1952 as the unfriendly ones at the beginning deciding what sounds do good to national radio choir of Bulgaria. take in the grindcore and the whom? Here are three extrao­ It’s one of the most famous and midnight sisters play baroque rdinary examples. Help yourself. unmistakable choirs ever. The pop. The rest is addictive. This is An appearance of the Chinese roots of its particular singing a serious warning. artist PAN DAIJING sounds like technique lie in the Middle East a surreal, psychedelic audiobook. of the 8th century A.D. The SEVDALIZA A monster hides within her. It has phenomenal sound resonance To be or to R’n’B. The Dutch to escape. Take it in. and the exceptional harmonies Iranian singer SEVDALIZA is in have also cast a spell over LISA the middle of somewhere and NIHILOXICA is the live project GERRARD—the singer of Dead careening ahead. Her music is an of the percussions group Nilotica Can Dance. Her clear and simi- event at this event. Her surreal Cultural Ensemble, the British larly unworldly voice fit the and completely planned out live drummer Spooky J and an ensemble. It’s going to be a performances transform her analogue synthesizer. An inter- historical chapter in Kilbi history. into a prototype of a popstar. pretation of traditional Buganda Our tent will behave like the A hint of melancholy, darkness, and Busogo sounds from the church on the parking area. night and mysticism can make Kampala region in Uganda. one happy, too. Also sounds good A great drumozzle gets the night JAMES HOLDEN & THE ANIMAL visually speaking. What to going. ZIUR comes out of SPIRITS see and listen to one decides for ­nowhere. Her techno strains an A masterpiece. The mind of him- or herself. audience who has developed afrofuturism-pioneer Sun Ra a certain sound habit. A stroke of gave his blessing. The Animal HORSE LORDS luck for Kilbi. Spirits work like a spiritual jazz An endless instrumental occur- band which plays folk trance. rence of the Baltimore quartet PHILANTHROSONGISTS And back we are with the modu- Horse Lords: drums, bass, Swiss football players love lar synthesizer. The hard- and ­saxophone, guitar and percus- playing abroad. Swiss musicians software designed by JAMES sions melt into deep, hypnotic love playing here. They are HOLDEN himself. (Not so) sour grooves. That’s new American some of our favourites. In total Kraut will bloom for you. Holden rock’n’roll. HORSE LORDS pile el- there’s seventeen. Stats and and Spirits we’ll savour each ements of krautrock, African numbers can lead us astray, so drop. poly-rhythm and classical mini- let’s get to the important bit: malism on top of each other. KHRUANGBIN ISOLATED LINES creates grim They’re doing their sound check AHMED—NEW JAZZ and intelligent techno always whilst I’m writing. They remix IMAGINATION. demanding danceability, variety Thai taxi driver- or farmer music. The American jazz musician and taste. At Kilbi with moving With their slow-motion funk, the Ahmed-Malik (1927 — 1993) was pictures on a big stage. groove and a feeling for melo- one of the first to introduce Set to 4 / 4 dancefloor function- dies, they might make the audi- Arabian music to jazz. Four of the ality SORAYA LUTANGU alias ence lose their balance. Every- most unconventional voices BONAVENTURE mixes African one thinks they’re dancing whilst of jazz integrate his philosophy. and Western influences in nobody is moving. A few centi- They re-interpretate his com­ her sets. A very vivid, strong and metres off the ground, very positions and play the notes. Or political voice! slowly towards Eden. The impos- just one note. For minutes on sible is happening. An incredible end. They free jazz of dogmas Here in Switzerland everyone is band! and clichés. This music is addic- called ALOIS. And suddenly tive and acts like a terrible virus. even a band. A good idea and UFO CUP—Saturday 2 June Musicians: Antonin Gerbal (FR)— their melodies have what it Art or music is the natural drums, Joel Grip (SW)—double takes. predator of normality. Not much bass, Pat Thomas (UK)—piano, is said, but magic is performed, Seymour Wright (UK)—Alt-­ recurrently repeated, they fly Saxophone > > >

REVEREND BEATMAN & KILBI IS ANOTHER THE NEW WAVE is not just any On the 7th of March 2018 not odd band, it’s a monument, only the Kilbi line up, but also the a hulk. Real music fans thought it book “Kilbi Est Un Autre” will was a an April’s fools prank. be released. Lyrics in English and But they really do play together. French by Dejan Gacond, Beat-Man, Julian Sartorius, ­pictures by Mehdi Benkler. Mario Batkovic, Resli Burri and Artwork: Atelier Quadraat Nicole Izobel Garcia! Holy! Print: Cric-Print. The chapel will be grateful to the priest! And the church won’t WELCOME dare go back to the village. Bad Bonn Kilbi Festival is not a meeting. Meetings are for PONY. No, not a damn pony. strangers. Here are no strangers, Gael Kyriakidis and Vincent just friends of strange music. Borcard. Two of the most We need no blinkers nor boxes, ­creative heads from Fribourg avoid an elitist style and also the and a great sense for fantastic archaic culture of envy that shows. condemns every new arrival to the mainstream culture a LA TENE & GUESTS will test your ­priori. Kilbi without borders, you patience. Whoever sticks it out know. You don’t need to know will be rewarded. It’s power, it’s or understand anything. We are lunacy. Great stage, great sound, normal, or almost, and pretty art that leaves behind traces. typical. That explains the line up. That’s not art. We hope Kilbi’s ON AIR tracks leave you with more than Every day there will be a sound just a muddy T-shirt. Questions experiment as a prelude to are happily being answered with Kilbi. Curated and installed by questions. the Lautsprecher Orchester Freiburg. We are excited to find The last one turns off the light. out where at the center the music sounds best. You move Thanks. To all who care about and the music joins from all four good music. corners of the earth. Tonverein Bad Bonn OFF TO THE LAKE Daniel Fontana Everyone feels comfortable at the lake. Fish watch the big sky, people swim in circles and MELISSA KASSAB tells her emotional stories through a guitar and voices. Part two at the water something danceolutely different.

SCHUBOT / GRADINGER are the rare birds of the scene they capture synergy to extremis. Both performances are to be experienced on two days. informations

EVENT DIRECTIONS 28th Bad Bonn Kilbi BY CAR Düdingen is located right at the highway between Bern and DATE Fribourg. There are signs just off 31st May – 2nd June the highway exit Düdingen. 2018 BY TRAIN With the S1 from Fribourg or Bern (sbb.ch). The festival site is ORGANISATION within walking distance of the Düdingen train station. The walk Tonverein Bad Bonn takes approximately 15 minutes. Bonn 2 SHUTTLEBUS P.O. Box 17 From 2am CH-3186 Düdingen Fee one way Bern CHF 15.– +41 26 493 11 15 Fee one way Fribourg CHF 8.– [email protected] PARKING badbonn.ch Parking nearby costs CHF 5.– CAMPING Spaces are limited— TICKET PRICES reservation mandatory! 3-day pass CHF 180.– kilbi.dais.ch

Thursday CHF 78.– HOTELS Friday CHF 78.– For different offers check Saturday CHF 78.– kilbi.badbonn.ch DRINKS & FOOD PRESALE Various bars and food stalls starticket.ch DOORS Thursday 3 pm Friday 3 pm Saturday 2 pm

CONTACT Daniel Fontana [email protected]

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