It’s almost time for another edition of Les Nuits Botanique! Providing a space where up-and-coming artists can be discovered alongside more renowned musicians at some very cool venues, Botanique presents an eclectic lineup where various genres and styles blend together. Different Class has picked five events we think are worth checking out.
Cover: Debby Friday shot by Mayli Sterkendries
Sarah Davachi
25.04.2023
Sara Davachi is an electroacoustic musician and composer from Canada, currently pursuing a PhD in musicology at UCLA focusing on timbre, phenomenology and critical organology. As a master of the drone, she creates soundscapes that feel both sinister and intrusive. Intrigued by Baroque music and 12th-century composers like Hildegard von Bingen and Pérotin, she combines tradition with experiment, resulting in a resonant mix of old and new. Offering a luminous and full sound palette as usual, her latest album Two Sisters delves into darker, more probing territory as well. Her organ sound brought in the breathtaking surroundings of a Dominican church will be a guaranteed magical experience.
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Ada Oda
03.05.2023
Believe it or not but without Tinder, there would be no Ada Oda. When initiator César Laloux (The Tellers, Italian Boyfriend) met Brussels-Italian Victoria Barracato, a musical match was born. Expect Dolce vita choruses with uptempo guitars, as a poppy version of The Strokes with some Morricone touches. Their debut album Un Amore Debole came out last year and they already opened for bands like Wet Leg and The Cool Green House. That raw Italian voice will make you drift away to Sicily until post-punk guitars and drums knock you out of your dream: wake up, we’re in Brussels!
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Silvia Tarozzi Quintet
04.05.2023
Violinist and composer Silvia Tarozzi makes music as an ode to women, to motherhood and to ‘the mystery hidden behind everyday life’ as she says herself. Guided by the poems of Alda Merini and reworked by her own reflections on life, she made the delicate but powerful album Mi specchio e rifletto in 2020. For her latest work Canti di Guerra, di lavoro e d‘amore, Tarozzi collaborated with cellist Deborah Walker and delved into traditional Italian work songs of female rice planters. Bringing the songs back to life reveals the virtuosity of these traditional hymns and results in yet another otherworldly album.
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ECHT!
05.05.2023
ECHT! is part of a new generation of exciting young jazz bands in Belgium. Respecting the old and fully embracing the new, ECHT! dares to go far beyond classic jazz norms. Effortlessly combining complex chord progressions with rolling drum n bass breaks and heavy drums, they could play both dark clubs and classical venues in the same night. With two albums already released on the Belgian label Sdban Records, a third coming soon and showing both home and abroad, these guys are taking the scene by storm.
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Debby Friday
06.05.2023
Born in Nigeria, and based in Canada, Debby Friday is paving the way through her own electronic dream world. With her debut album GOOD LUCK, the noisy synths and agonising lyrics as black queer and immigrant of her previous EPs make room for more nuanced compositions, where softness and emotions get a place as well. ‘Is this heaven or is this hell?’ she sings in her lead single ‘So Hard to Tell’, revealing the inner battles she wages. With dreamy landscapes with dark metallic overtones and atmospheric backings with heavy-hitting drums, Debby Friday can do it all, which notable label Sub Pop (Weyes Blood, Kiwi Jr.) must’ve felt as well when signing her.
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