YOUNISS + Frederik Meulyzer & Prisca Agnes Nishimwe (+ afterparty)

A ticket for this event also gives you access to the afterparty with Lena Willikens.

Frederik Meulyzer & Prisca - Agnes Nishimwe

Antwerp-based duo, exploring the boundless character of improvisation through roots, rhythms and rhymes. A synergistic discourse of immersive drums talking, extensive percussion and spacious arcane voices, traveling inner spheres.

YOUNISS

For Youniss Ahamad, music isn’t just an exploration of sound, but a means to unearth explanations for the ways of the surrounding world. Youniss’ journey started during quarantine, and produced several tracks characterized by jagged rhythms underneath heavy synths and distorted vocals. In the 4 short years since the birth of his project, Youniss’ music has evolved into an amalgam of noise, electronics, and samples interacting with his post-punk and hip-hop influenced poetry. In all his music, Youniss aims to examine and communicate his own Black life as it unfolds in Belgium, a country with a particularly brutal colonial history.

Overall, Youniss’ work is described by the artist as “mostly influenced by general experiences as a POC,” but in less modest terms, it’s an exposition of the 21st century global culture as being one defined by anti-Blackness. Through this sentiment, Do We Try Beyond The Edge? is a welcome addition to the canon of Black art as it mirrors an experience that seems unlimited to any one place, western or non.