Nkisi
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Biografía
- https://stayservice.de/roster/nkisi/Nkisi is the pseudonym of Melika Ngombe Kolongo, whose activities as a producer, live musician, DJ and curator are channels for an on-going investigation into invisible forces, using sound. Musically, this manifests in a captivating cross talk of African rhythms, uncompromising European hard dance tropes, foreboding synth melodies and a relentless, galvanising energy, as harnessed for her increasingly kinetic live performances. Nkisi co-founded NON WORLDWIDE, a collective of African and African diaspora musicians and honed her sonically marauding DJ style at London’s mythical Endless parties and through a monthly NTS residency, Nkisi’s most complete statement as a solo artist came this year in the form of the 7 Directions LP for Lee Gamble’s UIQ. This and ‘The Dark Orchestra’ EP ‘The Dark Orchestra’ (on Warp offshoot imprint Arcola) nailed Nkisi’s standout, polymorphous aesthetic, and has served as a blueprint for a live set that has resonated hard through landmark appearances at Unsound, Donau Festival and Terraforma among others…alongside deeper explorations of the themes of her work and collaborations via residencies at Cafe OTO and Vooruit in Gent, and as a 2018 SHAPE Network alumni. Nkisi uses her sonic research to cross over genre and discipline, many of these sonic manifestations can be found in her sound installations and collaborative projects as ‘Initiation’, a radical and visceral interrogation of the AV show format in collaboration with visual artist Charlie Hope and ‘Sènsa’, a performance work developed alongside Paul Maheke & Ariel Ashbel Efraim.̸DJ KITOKO VOL.1 / self-released, 2024 DJ KITOKO VOL.4 / self-released, 2023 Avebury / self-released, 2022 When The Smoke Clears / self-released, 2021 are you free? / self-released, 2021 Peeling / Climate of Fear, 2020 INT001 / Initiation, 2020 DJ KITOKO VOL.3 / self-released, 2020 BLK SPLLS / self-released, 2020 WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE / self-released, 2020 7 Directions / UIQ, 2019 The Dark Orchestra / Arcola, 2018 Flush/in / self-released, 2017 DJ KITOKO VOL.2 / self-released, 2017 Kill EP / MW (4), 2017 16 / Doom Records, 2014
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