{"id":18883,"date":"2022-05-11T14:07:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T13:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=18883"},"modified":"2022-05-11T14:07:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T13:07:48","slug":"le-guess-who-reveals-guest-curators-and-first-wave-of-artists-for-the-15th-year-anniversary-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=18883","title":{"rendered":"Le Guess Who? reveals guest curators and first wave of artists for the 15th year anniversary edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Utrecht\u2019s one-of-a-kind festival Le Guess Who? is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, and the first announcements of 2022 are here! A diverse, inspiring and mind-blowing programme featuring both emerging and well-established artists, drawn from all corners of the musical spectrum.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve been raving at length over the past few years about Le Guess Who?<\/strong><\/a>, who have been presenting one of the boldest and most adventurous festivals anywhere on earth since 2007. The 2022 edition will take place from 10-13th November and today the organizers have announced the guest curators as well as the first batch of artists and bands for the general line-up.<\/p>\n

Le Guess Who?\u2019s guests curators are an integral part of the festival, expanding and enriching its monumental programme with their hand-picked selections of favourite and like-minded artists. CURL<\/strong>, Animal Collective<\/strong> and clipping.<\/strong> are taking the guest curator seat this year and will also be performing themselves.<\/p>\n

CURL<\/strong> is a London based collective and label who counts as founders Mica Levi<\/strong>, Coby Sey<\/strong> and Brother May<\/strong>. Their curation will host performances from South London guitarist and producer Leisha Thomas aka Alpha Maid<\/strong>, who is also a CURL member, lo-fi act bar italia<\/strong>, the blend of jazz and electronics from Speakers Corner Quartet & Friends<\/strong>, Copenhagen based composer, producer and viola player Astrid Sonne<\/strong>, experimental electronic artist Laurel Halo<\/strong>, TONE<\/strong> and Tutto Questo Sentire<\/strong>, an artist collective made up of experimental opera singer Olivia Salvadori, composer and cellist Sandro Mussida, and video and sound artist Rebecca Salvadori. Also integrating CURL\u2019s programme is Ma\u00ebva Berthelot & Coby Sey performing \u2018A Tender Ascent\u2019<\/strong>, an immersive audio-visual installation marrying filmed performance, 5.1 surround sound and sculpture, and Eve Stainton presents Dykegeist, with live sound by Mica Levi<\/strong>, a commissioned choreographic work. Experimental musician and poet Moor Mother<\/strong> and rapper billy woods<\/strong> also join this bill performing BRASS<\/em>, their collaborative and tribute album to the plurality of Afro-American culture.<\/p>\n

Founded in Baltimore in 2000, Animal Collective<\/strong> are an iconic experimental and indie-pop band, with a huge catalogue to their name and countless live shows. With a brand new album, Time Skiffs<\/em>, released in February, the four-piece are well poised to perform it live at Le Guess Who?. Among the names appearing in their curation are Japanese tribal trio Kuunatic<\/strong>, French iconic and innovative musician Valent\u00edn Clastrier<\/strong>, New York folk songwriter Anastasia Coope<\/strong>\u00a0and Berlin’s queen of avant-garde pop music Mary Ocher<\/strong>. Animal Collective have also invited experimental rock quartet and fellow Baltimoreans Horse Lords<\/strong>, Tuareg guitar band Les Filles de Illighadad<\/strong>, Catalan composer, singer and pianist Marina Herlop<\/strong>, who fuses her vocals with avant-garde classical music and experimental electronics, and Japanese avant-garde guitarist and improvising singer, Keiji Haino<\/strong>, who is no stranger to the festival having delivered a blistering and memorable show at the 2017 edition. Additionally, their curated bill features Lebanese electronic music producer Liliane Chlela<\/strong>, Norway\u2019s improvisational avant-jazz ensemble Supersilent<\/strong>, and Maria Reis<\/strong>, a prominent name in Lisbon’s alternative pop scene, with a recently released new album under her belt, A Flor da Urtiga<\/em>, counting Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) as producer and co-instrumentalist.<\/p>\n

Pushing boundaries and crossing genres, clipping.<\/strong> is the experimental hip-hop trio of Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes. Their programme will include experimental sound artist Evicshen<\/strong>, Chicago footwork producer Jana Rush<\/strong>, Japanese experimental hip hop group Dos Monos<\/strong> and They Hate Change<\/strong>, the duo of Dre and Vonne, whose third album Finally, New<\/em>, is out this Friday May 13th. Appearing on their bill is also the beautiful, dark and galvanising music of Divide and Dissolve<\/strong>, and legendary guitarist Jeff Parker<\/strong>, known for his membership in groups like Tortoise, Isotope 217, Chicago Underground, as well as various collaborations and solo records.<\/p>\n

Le Guess Who? pays special attention to underappreciated and underrepresented musicians of the world and the 2022 line-up includes a programme hosted by New York based Ostinato Records<\/strong>, a label that gives the spotlight to \u201cAfrophone stories from the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.’ In addition to a talk by label founder and Grammy-nominated producer Vik Sohonie<\/strong>, there will be performances from Groupe RTD<\/strong>, the official band for Djibouti’s national TV station Radiodiffusion-T\u00e9l\u00e9vision Djibouti and Cape Verde group The Ano Nobo Quartet<\/strong>, who earlier this year released The Strings of S\u00e3o Domingos<\/em> mixing koladera guitars with a variety of styles including flamenco, Samba and Marrabenta.<\/p>\n

Le Guess Who? is also off to a stellar start with the initial general line-up boasting the likes of legendary South African composer Abdullah Ibrahim<\/strong>, London based Palestinian producer and rapper Bint7alal<\/strong>, German ambient\/jazz quartet Bohren & der Club of Gore<\/strong>, Melbourne post-punk psychedelic outfit EXEK<\/strong>, Swedish psych rockers Goat<\/strong>, Czech husband-and-wife duo Irena & Vojt\u011bch Havlovi<\/strong> and Kee Avil<\/strong>, the project of Montr\u00e9al producer, singer, and guitarist Vicky Mettler. Congolese collective KOKOKO!<\/strong>, Jordanian-Palestinian artist Lil Asaf Bashar Suleiman aka Lil Asaf<\/strong>, Guatemala born and Mexico City based cellist and composer Mabe Fratti<\/strong>, Canadian singer and songwriter Myriam Gendron<\/strong>, the avant-garde cosmic sounds of Senegal-via-Sweden Wau Wau Collectif<\/strong>, and the spiritual jazz of Muriel Grossmann Quartet<\/strong> are amongst those confirmed to perform in November. Other exciting additions include The Staples Jr. Singers<\/strong>, a teenage family band from Mississippi whose rare 1975 gospel soul album When Do We Get Paid<\/em> is being reissued this month by Luaka Bop, and musician OKI<\/strong> who is heavily informed by the music of Japan’s northernmost indigenous people.<\/p>\n

Amidst the first thrilling names added to Le Guess Who?\u2019s line-up is South African drummer and visionary musician Asher Gamedze<\/strong> and English actress and musician Keeley Forsyth<\/strong> with her powerful an otherworldly baritone voice. Gamedze’s Dialectic Soul<\/em> and Forsyth’s Debris<\/em> were both included in our Album Picks of 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot more on offer for this year’s edition of Utrecht\u2019s Le Guess Who? and many more artists will be added to this daring and stellar line-up in the coming months. In the meantime, visit leguesswho.com<\/a> for further information and programme announced so far.<\/p>\n

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The absolute musical treasure that will be Le Guess Who? 2022 takes place from 10 -13th November in several venues throughout picturesque Utrecht and 4-Day Festival Passes and Day Tickets are available now on leguesswho.com<\/a>. Save the date and grab your tickets now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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