Tickets für Café Chocolat #2 w/ Batila & the Dream bus (House band) and Gäste 27.09.24 in Berlin, Schokoladen

Café Chocolat, is a new music series and community building event created by Melissa Perales (M:Soundtrack, Durchlüften, Music Pool Berlin) and Batila (the Dream bus, BantuSoul Allstars). We aim at celebrating and supporting local talents and newcomer black and brown artists & DJ’s within the diaspora of Germany’s communities. Our main thesis is that when communities are supported and treated fairly they will thrive. Aside from the showcases, this series is about surviving as an artist and creator in the black and brown community. We believe with more emphasis on “all of us”, we can create a more equitable event and make a contribution to our music scene. Please come out and support our efforts so we can continue this event! 

Program #2Batila & the Dream bus (House band)

Nyangombe (Kinshasa, Congo)

Susan Augusst aka ADORKOR (Accra, Ghana)

+ DJ: Maurico Fleury + TBA

+ congolese cusine by Food Fruit African ( Ma Bijoux)

Nyangombe returns to Schokoladen witnher second performance this time as a guest at Café Chocolat. 

She is a self-taught and multidisciplinary artist who integratesmusic composition, writing, video, performance, and costume in herpractice. The common thread of her work is individuality (mix heritage,woman, artist) in the community in relation and in confrontation with theantagonisms. She works solo, with her band Village Papa Nyangombe andin collaboration with artists from various disciplines and performs in theurban and alternative art scene of Kinshasa. Her EP “Fatherland” out in2023 is the reflection of the journey of a mix race artist working, thinkingand struggling as a woman in her father’s land-

https://www.instagram.com/nyangombemusic/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RzDLqi-ewI

Susan Augustt  aka Adorkor is a singer-songwriter based in Accra who blends neo afro-soul and Ghanaian traditional music such as highlife, agbadza, and kpanlogo. She has collaborated with Future Stars Charity on their “Periods of Change” project which aimed to provide menstrual hygiene education and health support to girls.

she moves seamlessly between genres and styles. She creates neo-afro soul pieces poignantly blended with indigenous Ghanaian rhythms that influence her fuse with the soul, lending their parts in the crafting of a unique live sound that takes listeners on a satisfying journey of culture and taste. Susan is born of Ga-Ewe descent and lived her early years in Obuasi, a suburb of the Ashanti Region in Ghana; she believes these multi-culture experiences have contributed to her versatility in her music. Apart from English, she sings in two local languages, Twi and Ga. If one thing is certain it is the fact that Susan is a live music artiste who would embrace every chance to light up a stage with her performance and music and can rekindle the much-lacking live music scene in our parts.

https://www.instagram.com/susan_augustt?igsh=ZXQ0N3k1cXlsdnNj

OUR House band : Batila & The Dream BusBerlin based live Band with excellent musicians such as Dodo NKishi on the drums, knownfrom the iconic electronic group Mouse and Mars ,upcoming Guitarist and producer SkylineSun, Paul Hoyle on Bass, Inspiring Producer,Singer and healer Nane Kahle on backingvocals. Sam Konzi on guitar, Adam Pavel and Rachelle Jeanty on percussion .With Batila asthe Band leader and songwriter, the sound of the Dreambus is quite unique, which Batilahimself baptized as Bantu Soul, a fusion of all genres created and inspired by people ofafrican descent. Bantu, the plural of muntu means people. “Music by people for people '' asBatila likes to say. Batila’s roots are in the Kongo and with his Artistic being he clearlydeclares his love for la “Rumba Congolaise '' and his continent. The sound is groovy, melodicwith empowering messages and stories which will take you on a spiritual journey. And sinceit is a Dreambus, you will also experience many other extraordinary Artists jumping on andoff the Bus.

https://www.instagram.com/batilasound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLdtfEkKzBk

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