A gig held at The Canteen on Wednesday 17th September. The event starts at 21:30.
Free Entry!
Yalla Miku’s frenetic and playful fusion is a genre twister, with musicians from North and East Africa coming together with various musical alchemists from Geneva’s burgeoning and experimentally minded, global music scene.
The group was initially set up by Bongo Joe founder, Beirut-born Cyril Yeterian (banjo, electric guitar, vocals), and his Cyril Cyril duo bandmate Cyril Bondi (drums and vocals). Having teamed up with label stalwarts minimalist electro-pop duo Hyperculte, who comprise Simone Aubert (synthesisers, guitar and vocals) and founder of L’Orchèstre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp bassist Vincent Bertholet, the final pieces of the Yalla Miku puzzle were added as three migrant musicians from Africa, all of whom encountered difficult and dangerous journeys to get to Switzerland and all regular participants at Bongo Joe café and store events, were invited into the fold.
Thus, completing the line-up are Samuel Ades from Eritrea on krar and vocals, Algerian Ali Bouchaki, darbouka & bendir drums and vocals and Moroccan Anouar Baouna guembri, krakeb, loutar, (a picked lute, the soprano cousin to a guembri), and vocals. It’s a thrilling mix of Moroccan gnawa, haunting guembri melodies and krar riffs - with shoots of house and electronica and krautrock grooves and ultimately it's a testament to the community led, punk approach that many creatives from the Bongo Joe Record label, and beyond, adhere to.
Entry requirements: 18+
Yalla Miku’s frenetic and playful fusion is a genre twister, with musicians from North and East Africa coming together with various musical alchemists from Geneva’s burgeoning and experimentally minded, global music scene.
The group was initially set up by Bongo Joe founder, Beirut-born Cyril Yeterian (banjo, electric guitar, vocals), and his Cyril Cyril duo bandmate Cyril Bondi (drums and vocals). Having teamed up with label stalwarts minimalist electro-pop duo Hyperculte, who comprise Simone Aubert (synthesisers, guitar and vocals) and founder of L’Orchèstre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp bassist Vincent Bertholet, the final pieces of the Yalla Miku puzzle were added as three migrant musicians from Africa, all of whom encountered difficult and dangerous journeys to get to Switzerland and all regular participants at Bongo Joe café and store events, were invited into the fold.
Thus, completing the line-up are Samuel Ades from Eritrea on krar and vocals, Algerian Ali Bouchaki, darbouka & bendir drums and vocals and Moroccan Anouar Baouna guembri, krakeb, loutar, (a picked lute, the soprano cousin to a guembri), and vocals. It’s a thrilling mix of Moroccan gnawa, haunting guembri melodies and krar riffs - with shoots of house and electronica and krautrock grooves and ultimately it's a testament to the community led, punk approach that many creatives from the Bongo Joe Record label, and beyond, adhere to.
Entry requirements: 18+
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