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Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp xxl
Altin GünThe Mauskovic Dance Band Dijf SandersBabylon Trio
Lous and the Yakuza2 Times NothingCommander SpoonWhocat
GyrophareBru(i)talRemork & Karkaba Les Disques Bongo Joe
Ateliers, Circus, Performances and more surprises!

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01 SEP 2018 13h - 01h

ORCHESTRE TOUT PUISSANT MARCEL DUCHAMP XXL 21h00 Main Stage

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Tropical post punk afro pop wild battalion!

With its XXL format, the 14 musicians of the OTPMD are reunited in a baroque and contemporary formula to blow a gentle wind of madness on the stage of Forest Sounds with their festive, frenetic and unpredictable energy!
Their new album “Sauvage Formes” has been released on the label Les Disques Bongo Joe / Red Wig.

ALTIN GÜN 23h15 Main Stage

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The “golden age” of Turkish psychedelic rock!

For the occasion, the Park of Forest will vibrate to the sound of Istanbul’s jubilant and exotic music scene. The 5 members of the group revive the repertoire of Turkish classics from the end of the 60’s and the beginning of the 70’s with rehearsals of today’s pop energies.
Altin Gün released at the beginning of this year his first album “On”.

THE MAUSKOVIC DANCE BAND 22h15

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Hypnotic Space Afro-Caribbean Disco of Amsterdam!  

The crazy one of broken beats, this group combines elements of cumbia, Afro-Caribbean rhythms and Space Disco to create a unique hypnotic groove! The result is an eclectic electroshock, the dance floor of Forest Sounds will be shaken by this super mix!
EP released in 2018, produced by Nicola Mauskovic.

DIJF SANDERS 19h00 Main Stage

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Exploration of the electro-tropical jungle with flavors of jazz and psychedelia!

A Multi-instrumentalist, instrument builder, producer and singer from Ghent, Dijf Sanders invites us for an adventurous concert in a hitherto unknown musical landscape!
Gone in search of authentic and psychedelic sounds on the island of Java, he came back armed with tons of recordings that he combines with his own exotic and electronic sounds. As a constant blend of nature and culture, the music anthropologist offers us a surprising journey!

BABYLON TRIO 20h00 Brass Stage

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Electrified mix of contemporary Iraqi music!

Refugee of the war, this trio composed around a talented pianist and keyboard player, a singer accompanied by his oud and a darbouka percussionist that play an electrified mix of contemporary Iraqi music styles with hybrid sounds!
Release album ‘Habibi.be’ en September on Rebel Up Records.

LOUS AND THE YAKUZA 17h00 Main Stage

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Hybrid singer of a haunting hip hop!

The songwriter and performer creates a bewitching music with offbeat universes. Her productions merge the French song with a young and fiery hip hop.
The Forest Sounds is ready to be hypnotized!

COMMANDER SPOON 16h00 Brass Stage

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Energetic Cosmic Nu-Jazz

Discover the wide universe of this Brussels quartet.
Their new EP “Introducing” is a promising opus to be delighted!

2 TIMES NOTHING 18h15 Brass Stage

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The young Brussels revelation of experimental jazz!

The band of 5 Brussels jazz musicians adrift, passionate about experimental music, will present his mixed compositions of jazz, funk, electro and hip hop. A perfect balance between acoustics and electronics!

WHOCAT 15h00 Main Stage

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Groovy music and Indie Pop melodies!

Whocat is the result of the musical vibrations from a Brussels alto singer and three musicians. The diversity of their origins offers a sparkling alchemy with original sound. The Park of Forest’s boundaries will then explode to let us go on a dynamic journey!
Whocat has just finished production of a new album “Joyful Rebellion” recorded by Low Man’s Land and mixed by Staf Verbeeck.

GYROPHARE 14h00 Brass Stage

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Family punk with poetic accents of childhood!

The members of this original group propose to a young audience concerts to the repertoire of funny and energetic songs with a quirky imagination. From punk to fantasy world, even subversive, it makes move both children and adults!

BRU(i)TAL 19h45 20h45 00h15 Itinerant

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A set of energies that collide in a punk universe!

This fanfare shock, created especially for the Zinneke Parade 2018 in Brussels, brings together musicians and singers armed with megaphones, bathed in a brutal sound universe. Nourished by revolt, it sways between strength and fragility, between order and disorder, like an underground horde guided by contestation.

REMORK & KARKABA 14h45 15h45 16h45 Itinerant

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A festive and generous mix of heterogeneous musicians for a fanfare of madness!


An original brass band mixes with gnawa percussion and crazy dance to form a unique and delirious fanfare. Enthusiastic musicians will come to fire with riffs and melodies well raised on different percussion grooves!

LES DISQUES BONGO JOE 13h00

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Exploring contemporary rare underground music.

He plows the furrows of time to unearth rare nuggets, from here and elsewhere, which you will find them in the form of vinyl records with gorgeous silk-screened covers at Bongo Joe’s shop in Geneva and this time specially at the forest sounds 2018.

MIGRATIONS 17h45 Park

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Two women. One in the air, another about to fly. Together, they offer us a moment of poetic reflection on the migration of the human body. Compagnie Ana Cembrero & Ceci n’est pas du Cirque 

Two women. One in the air, another about to fly. Together, they offer us a moment of poetic reflection on the migration of the human body.
Compagnie Ana Cembrero & Ceci n’est pas du Cirque

Village

Come and discover the village of workshops with many fun and commited activities!


 

Kiosk Radio will showcase his best global sounds resident DJs with some special guests
and host the pop-up record store of Les Disques de Bongo Joe and Radio Martiko.

DJSet Timetable:
♫ 13h Rrita Jashari ♫ 14h The Wild ♫ 15h Workshop with Mambele ♫
♫ 16h Radio Martiko ♫ 17h Workshop with Mambele ♫ 18h Nic Mauskovic ♫
♫ 19h Les Disques de Bongo Joe ♫ 20h Xogn ♫ 21h David Nzeyimana ♫ 22h NiXiE

Village

Come and discover the village of workshops with many fun and commited activities!


 

Kiosk Radio will showcase his best global sounds resident DJs with some special guests
and host the pop-up record store of Les Disques de Bongo Joe and Radio Martiko.

DJSet Timetable:
♫ 13h Rrita Jashari ♫ 14h The Wild ♫ 15h Workshop with Mambele ♫
♫ 16h Radio Martiko ♫ 17h Workshop with Mambele ♫ 18h Nic Mauskovic ♫
♫ 19h Les Disques de Bongo Joe ♫ 20h Xogn ♫ 21h David Nzeyimana ♫ 22h NiXiE

Village

Come and discover the village of workshops with many fun and commited activities!


 

Kiosk Radio will showcase his best global sounds resident DJs with some special guests
and host the pop-up record store of Les Disques de Bongo Joe and Radio Martiko.

DJSet Timetable:
♫ 13h Rrita Jashari ♫ 14h The Wild ♫ 15h Workshop with Mambele ♫
♫ 16h Radio Martiko ♫ 17h Workshop with Mambele ♫ 18h Nic Mauskovic ♫
♫ 19h Les Disques de Bongo Joe ♫ 20h Xogn ♫ 21h David Nzeyimana ♫ 22h NiXiE

About

Open to all, environment-friendly, festive, familiar, situated in a magnificent Brussels park, Forest Sounds encloses the Belgian summertime in style.
Powered by Le Palais des Sciences (Antitapas Night), the BRASS (Cultural center of Forest) and the Municipality of Forest.

LOCATION

Parc de Forest
stib – Rochefort: T97 B48
stib – Jupiter: B51
stib – Albert: T3 T4 B48 B54
stib – Avenue du Roi: T81 T82 T83 B49 B50
Villo! – Stop Rochefort

The main entrance of the festival is from Place Rochefort. The park is easily accessible by bike and public transport. A bike parking will be placed near the main entrance.

PARC DE FOREST

A green oasis among the Brussels municipalities of Saint Gilles and Forest. In 1882 the Belgian King Léopold II build this park for his magnificent panorama on the capital. The Park looks like a S, linking from above the nice buildings and majestic houses around Altitude 100 and Place Albert to the more popular neighborhood of Midi-Station.

PLAYLIST #ForestSounds18

About

Open to all, environment-friendly, festive, familiar, situated in a magnificent Brussels park, Forest Sounds encloses the Belgian summertime in style.
Powered by Le Palais des Sciences (Antitapas Night), the BRASS (Cultural center of Forest) and the Municipality of Forest.

LOCATION

Parc de Forest
stib – Rochefort: T97 B48
stib – Jupiter: B51
stib – Albert: T3 T4 B48 B54
stib – Avenue du Roi: T81 T82 T83 B49 B50
Villo! – Stop Rochefort

The main entrance of the festival is from Place Rochefort. The park is easily accessible by bike and public transport. A bike parking will be placed near the main entrance.

PARC DE FOREST

A green oasis among the Brussels municipalities of Saint Gilles and Forest. In 1882 the Belgian King Léopold II build this park for his magnificent panorama on the capital. The Park looks like a S, linking from above the nice buildings and majestic houses around Altitude 100 and Place Albert to the more popular neighborhood of Midi-Station.

PLAYLIST #ForestSounds18

About

Open to all, environment-friendly, festive, familiar, situated in a magnificent Brussels park, Forest Sounds encloses the Belgian summertime in style.
Powered by Le Palais des Sciences (Antitapas Night), the BRASS (Cultural center of Forest) and the Municipality of Forest.

LOCATION

Parc de Forest
stib – Rochefort: T97 B48
stib – Jupiter: B51
stib – Albert: T3 T4 B48 B54
stib – Avenue du Roi: T81 T82 T83 B49 B50
Villo! – Stop Rochefort

The main entrance of the festival is from Place Rochefort. The park is easily accessible by bike and public transport. A bike parking will be placed near the main entrance.

PARC DE FOREST

A green oasis among the Brussels municipalities of Saint Gilles and Forest. In 1882 the Belgian King Léopold II build this park for his magnificent panorama on the capital. The Park looks like a S, linking from above the nice buildings and majestic houses around Altitude 100 and Place Albert to the more popular neighborhood of Midi-Station.

PLAYLIST #ForestSounds18

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