Kiezsalon w/ The Dwarfs of East Agouza and Kohl/Stewart/Johnson

The Chicago trio of Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl and Macie Stewart create an organic, intertwined sound from their three voices and three string instruments — viola, cello and violin. The trio combine completely free improvisation with careful production, using multiple tape machines and effects to reimagine improvised material as collective compositions. KLOF described the trio’s recent debut album as: “deep, melancholy, and triumphant… Each instalment has deepened the sense of a group working at the outer edges of what string instruments, voices, and analogue tape can do together.”

Founded in Cairo in 2012 by Maurice Louca, Sam Shalabi and Alan Bishop, The Dwarfs of East Agouza make free-spirited music that touches upon jazz and krautrock, combined with influences of Arabic and Egyptian Shaabi music. On stage, the trio embrace their improvisational dynamic, resulting in exciting and spontaneous shows that allow them to take whichever musical direction they feel like playing. Writing about their 2023 appearance at The Hague’s Rewire festival, Beats Per Minute said they “rival the great Wolf Eyes as tried-and-true noise psych outlaws.”

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