Sat 26.10., 01:00 Yao Bobby & Simon Grab ^TGO/SUI

Togolese rapper and political activist Yao Bobby and Swiss noise maker Simon Grab create an intense sonic battle between energetic rhymes fired into a dark soundworld of raw electronic bass eruptions with a dubby punk attitude, produced on analogue feedback electronics.

Freeform rap, noise and synthetic rhythms, elicited from improvised feedback signals and dynamic microphone control. Yao’s lyrics, in his mother tongue Ewé, French and in English, deal with the current injustices in Africa and the problems of the colonial consequences of the West and its remaining domination over the continent. Whether you understand each lyric or not, the unstoppable flow, the versatile dynamic range and the emotions in the frequencies convey vitality and a sense of resistance.