Jenny Hval - Nídia & Valentina - Alabaster DePlume & many more • Les Nuits Botanique 2025

Name: Jenny Hval - Nídia & Valentina - Alabaster DePlume & many more • Les Nuits Botanique 2025
Start: 2025-05-23T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-05-23T23:00:00+02:00
Location: Le Botanique

Schedule

Fri May 23 2025 at 05:00 pm to 11:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Le Botanique | Brussels, BU

Cette journée du vendredi 23 mai 2025 se déroulera en deux parties : des concerts en début de soirée (17h - 23h) puis place à la Bota By Night des Nuits 2025 qui durera jusqu'au petit matin (dont la line-up sera bientôt dévoilée). Stay tuned!
Friday, May 23, 2025, will take place in two parts: concerts in the early evening (5 PM - 11 PM) and then the Bota By Night Nuits 2025 until the early morning (with the line-up to be revealed soon). Stay tuned!

——— JENNY HVAL (NO)
Jenny Hval is a Norwegian composer, singer-songwriter and novelist with eight studio albums under her belt that seamlessly interweave musical, literary, visual, and performative modes of expression. Combining electronics, pop and aesthetics, she has been creating boundary-pushing music for over fifteen years.

——— ALABASTER DEPLUME (UK)
Gus Fairbairn, aka Alabaster DePlume, has a pocketful of phrases that he uses all the time whether he’s walking down the street or holding court with musicians and an audience. For a long time the Mancunian would tell anyone who’d listen that they were doing very well. More recently, it’s another phrase which has a similar effect and which belies his unwavering commitment to personal vulnerability and collective politics: “Don’t forget you’re precious.”

——— NÍDIA & VALENTINA (PT-UK)
Nídia is an internationally acclaimed Afro-Portuguese electronic producer andDJ, based out of Vale da Amoreira, south bank of River Tagus, across fromLisbon. As part of the Príncipe Discos record label and artistic collective, she hasbeen having adecisive role, both as an individual artist and as within thecommunity, in bringing inspiringly progressive aesthetics and ethics to thecontemporary alternative dance infrastructure across the globe, and the kuduroculture in particular.
Valentina Magaletti is a drummer-composer and multi-instrumentalist with an inventive approach to drums and percussion. Her versatile technique, which can incorporate anything from vibes and marimba to contact microphones and found objects, results in a style that is forever evolving. Feeling just as comfortable performing behind a delicate ceramic kit as she does hammering out motorik rhythms, her creative take on percussion has resulted in a diverse discography and many interesting collaborations.

——— MEROPE (BE)
Merope’s roots lie deep in the soil of Lithuania's folk songs, connecting them with ideas from across the cultural map. Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė's kanklės and singing are the foundation of their celestial folk reinterpretations, joined by ornate, experimental guitar and electronics from Belgian multi-instrumentalist Bert Cools, creating an intimate soundscape and guiding the duo towards the unknown. Diving into ancestral words and melodies, they present a contemporary vision of ancient Baltic music.
Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė (Lithuania) - vocals/kanklės/electronics
Bert Cools (Belgium) - guitar/synth/electronics

——— SARA PERSICO & MIKA OKI (IT-BE)
Sara Persico is a Berlin-based, Naples born sound artist, vocalist & DJ. Persico cut her teeth experimenting on the fringes of Naples's fiery underground scene, while finishing her academic music studies and developing a technique that would integrate her voice with analogue electronics, field recordings, and samples.
Mika Oki is a visual artist, Dj and producer born in Paris with a background in sculpture and electro-acoustic music, she explore the notion of intangible spaces and emotional landscapes through AV installations, music and mixes.
Sara Persico and Mika Oki embarked on an adventurous audiovisual collaboration inspired by Sara’s album, which features field recordings from the experimental concrete theatre built by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in Tripoli, northern Lebanon.

——— ABADIR & NICOLÒ CERVELLO (EG-IT)
ABADIR is a music producer, sound designer, DJ and music critic born in Cairo, Egypt and based in Berlin, Germany. His work varies between a large spectrum of styles, combining cinematic, club and ambient music.
ABADIR most recent project ‘Kitbashing’ is a new audiovisual collaboration alongside media artist Nicolò Cervello that ruminates on social media’s ruinous imprint on modern life and the ever-presence of data-extracting algorithms, while also offering tenuous escape routes for the afflicted.
Nicolò Cervello is a visual artist and designer, working in the field of motion graphics and interaction design. His practice is focused on 3D graphics, used to investigate the tension between realism and replica.

——— JULES REIDY (DE)
Jules Reidy’s sublime music maps the human experience in glittering constellations of sound. The guitarist is a driver of Berlin’s fertile contemporary music scene, a respected polymath whose prolific output and worldwide touring has led to performances and collaborations with myriad lauded artists.
Reidy’s breathtaking recordings and magnetic performances offer a truly futuristic, singular vision of guitar music. Explorations of microtonal mysticism and alternate tunings drawn from transcendental folk and minimalism color Reidy’s playful experiments with smudged pop melodics and sampling.

——— GIOVANNI DI DOMENICO, PAK YAN LAU & JOHN ALSO BENNETT (IT-BE-US)
Tidal Perspectives is an album by Giovanni Di Domenico, Pak Yan Lau, and John Also Bennett. Recorded across a single afternoon in Brussels, Belgium, the album’s four parts are a rippling alchemy of processed Rhodes piano, sizzling ceramics, and liquified bass flute, a rare meeting of three unique voices from the contemporary music landscape that manages to flow with the effortless inevitability of the oceanic tides.
Giovanni Di Domenico, an accomplished composer and prolific collaborator who has released albums with Jim O’Rourke, Eiko Ishibashi and Akira Sakata, among many others, initiated the collaboration with Bennett after the two met at a record fair in Saint-Gilles, Belgium and bonded over a shared inquisitiveness for unconventional sonic combinations.
Along with Pak Yan Lau, a Belgian-born sound artist and improviser who has developed her own rich and unique sonic footprint, the trio entered the studio with little, if any, discussion beforehand, jumping right into playing without preconceived structures.
Bennett, known for his solo work as well as his collaborations with Christina Vantzou as CV & JAB, gives us here a taste of his bass flute in free flowing form. Unconstricted by concept, joyfully and lazily bouncing off the melodic shimmers of Di Domenico’s Rhodes, Bennett uses his flute’s pitch information to trigger long tones that emerge like rays of light piercing through low hanging clouds - moments of clarity among a clicking world of sonic stimuli.
NIGHTLIFE PROGRAM TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON 🌙

——— INFOS
• Botanique / Doors 17:00
• Bota'Carte 30€ (https://bit.ly/Bota_Carte)
• Ticket 33€
• Day of show 36€
• Ticket Day + Bota By Night (Bota'Carte) 40€
• Ticket Day + Bota By Night (Normal) 43€
• Ticket Day + Bota By Night (Day of Show) 46€
(costs included)

——— TICKETS
FR: https://botanique.be/fr/concert/jenny-hval-alabaster-deplume-many-more-2025
NL: https://botanique.be/nl/concert/jenny-hval-alabaster-deplume-many-more-2025
EN: https://botanique.be/en/concert/jenny-hval-alabaster-deplume-many-more-2025

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