Electrónica en Abril Extended

Electrónica en Abril Extended is a radically different proposal from the previous weekend’s programme curated by the Jokkoo collective. Curated by Carolina Jiménez, there’s nothing random about the name “Extended”. The programme obeys a desire and need to mobilise downtempo or chill-out acoustics: sounds that support and are supported by the potential for a collective experience in a non-linear extended time. With something of a liturgical or ritualistic vibe, they flirt with a mysticism that abandons the dogma. Or at least they attempt to trace a fleeting, fragmentary vector between non-hegemonic forms of listening—or those that go against the grain of the rhythms of musical consumption that numb our listening modes and therefore our ways of being and inhabiting the world(s)—and the metrics, syntaxes and concentration techniques that generate other ways of being present in the present.

The programme kicks off with a performance by Nexcyia. The artist presents a sound narrative about abandoning Eurocentric temporal domination, introducing notions such as alienation and otherness in the Afro-American experience. The composer Kali Malone explores the relationship between sacramental music and the popular legacy of electronic music at a concert that expands established conventions about topics such as experimentation and the avant-garde. Carmen Villain will give a multi-layered performance combining the electronic and instrumental sounds that inspire her latest and greatly acclaimed Only Love From Now On. This album is the definitive affirmation of a sensitivity attuned to community music and the “make-with modes” that have marked the artist’s career. The open-door collaborative dimension of Coby Sey’s music is the premise for his concert. The collective body of the dance floor, the embrace of his voice breathing his lyrics and the changing rhythms that Coby mobilises when he performs solo are accompanied on this occasion by the guitar of Leisha Thomas (Alpha Maid), the drums of Momoko Gill (MettaShiba) and the saxophone of Ben Vince.