Youniss / Borokov Borokov

Album Release Show

VIERNULVIER

Thu 07.05

19:30 - 22:30

BALZAAL

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Antwerp-based multi-disciplinary artist Youniss Ahamad operates much like a quantum particle, constantly resisting categorization and knowability. Expect a rebellious combination of post-punk, hip hop and noise. Completing the lineup are Borokov Borokov, a duo that creates angular synth pop which sounds a little like a pleasantly polyphonic panick attack.

About Youniss

Youniss’ unique path in the Belgian underground has been influenced by his ancestral roots in Cote D’Ivoire and Iraq. His experience growing up in the Antwerp suburbs as a Black person with an Arabic name inspired 2023’s White Space – marking a shift from cerebral dance music to distorted, experimental storytelling.

Each subsequent record has seen Youniss shift his sound. White Space was an outburst of electric guitar, spitfire vocals, and barbed breakbeats. Do We Try Beyond The Edge? continued in this vein, sharpening his lyrical bite against the colonial structures that still pervade everyday life in Belgium. On his upcoming record Youniss steps out from behind the distortion, exploring the full range of his voice. An ode to the modern city and a clarion call against gentrification, Good Effort! marks yet another musical turn toward jazz, a chimeric combination of To Pimp A Butterfly-era Kendrick, Flying Lotus, and Slauson Malone.

Post-punk, noise, hip hop & experimentalism. A double bill that refuses to be pinpointed to a single genre or mood through relentless experimentation.

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On Borokov Borokov

If anything could be called Borokov Borokov's formula, it probably would be derived from the following quote: “First and foremost we make music that we ourselves want to dance to. Even when the music in question does not immediately sound like dance music."

The result may resemble for example angular synth pop, ... work incapacitated hi-NRG, krauttrock with a double 't', supra-freudian elektrapunk, birthday-themed acid house, no-no wave, polyphonic panic attacks or multilingual lamentation. As if with each track, the band seizes a new opportunity to waltz out of the confines of its own straitjacket, albeit with no guarantee of success. By the way, they found their first drum machine on a rubbish dump in Borsbeek.