Happy 2023!
To start the new year full of good vibes, harmonies and poetry, we are extremely happy to invite the spoken words artist S’PHONGO, in tour from Zimbabwe/Sierra Leone + GIOVANNI DI DOMENICO and his velvet piano solo + MICAMAT with his magic guitar set.
A sweet evening of music and reflections on today and tomorrow.

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1 GIOVANNI DI DOMENICO

solo piano
Giovanni Di Domenico, pianist, was born in Rome on the 20th July 1977. Majoring in ‘jazz piano’ at music school – he further built on an encyclopaedic technique; rhythm, harmony and tone are informed by non-western traditions yet equally sensitive to Debussy’s “Préludes”, Luciano Berio’s “Sequenzas”, to the ‘ambi-ideation’ heard in Borah Bergman’s Soul Note recordings, Cecil Taylor’s polissemic density, Paul Bley’s bruised transparency and of course, the most radical manifestations stemming from the underworld of pop music, invariably tied together by his own original praxis. A distinction – one would call it generational – he shares with many of the musicians he has crossed paths with recently, of which we could enumerate Nate Wooley, Chris Corsano, Arve Henriksen, Jim O’Rourke, Alexandra Grimal, Tetuzi Akiyama, João Lobo or Toshimaru Nakamura. Di Domenico has founded his own label, Silent Water, home of an eclectic and occasionally unclassifiable production. He lives in Brussels.

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2 S’PHONGO

solo spoken words performance
Raised in the majestic mountains of Matopo, South West of Zimbabwe, S’phongo is a Spoken Word Artist who uses his poetry to tell his side of this life story. Leaving no topic unexplored, he has physically mesmerized audiences in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Sierra Leone and has set his eyes on much bigger stages.
His mixture of performance art and poetry has earned him the title of Slam Champion once in the LitFest Harare Kanyanisa Poetry Slam.

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3 MICAMAT

guitar solo + surprises
Michele Giovannini (aka Micamat) grew artistically in Bologna where he joined Homework, a collective promoting DIY culture through a festival and a netlabel releasing digital auto-productions.
Once he moved to Brussels he took part in different sound projects combining guitar and electronics. Together with Jacques Lemaire (vocals and video editing) and Sylvain Dufayard (synths), he created Ravenala, a filmic sound piece around postcolonial family archives. He joined also Céline Chappuis (cello) and Saar van de Leest (clarinet) for their Cosmic Ensemble of Random Rituals.
Micamat also hosts the monthly radio show VOLUME at Kiosk Radio, where he selects, mixes and messes up his last listenings and musical influences, moving freely from ambient and experimental sounds to ethno music. Within the broader collective Zonneklopper, formed around a temporary occupation in Forest, he experiments new forms of self-organisation for activism, art and culture. More recently he has been exploring further the acoustic possibilities of the guitar and the boundaries of its inner potential as a sound generator.