Tickets für Café Chocolat - Program #3 01.11.24 in Berlin, Schokoladen

Café Chocolat - Program #3

01.11.24- Doors: 19 Uhr - Konzert Beginn: 20 Uhr

LIVE END: 22Uhr DJs  >>>> ASA Collect @ 22-24Uhr >>>> DJ Femdelic @24-2 UHR

Batila & the Dream bus (House band)

EliAFree (Accra, Ghana)

Otis Mensah (Bln/Sheffield)

Regis Molina (Bln/Cuba)

+ DJ's ASA Collect  (eclectic africa, afrobeat++) + Femdelic (Funk, Electro, Disco)

+ congolese cusine by Food Fruit African ( Ma Bijoux)

+ Day of the Dead celebration - “Ofrenda” for our ancestors

funded by @musicboardberlin

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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. This includes everyone from the artists on stage, to the door person or the sound engineer - 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!

Concept of the evening: The Dream Bus takes you on a musical journey performing their music (The members are from all over the world and their sound reflects this) AND jumping on an off the Bus are guests who will perform 2-3 songs each to give us a taste of their work, showcasing the amazing artists, poets, dancers and or multi-instrumentalists of the community! and we will always provide continued good music after the live show with a DJ who will bring it all together. When possible food will be available for sale outside the venue and special drinks on the menu at the bar.

Welcome to our table - the "Cafe CHOCOLAT STORE" will be available from this evening on with artists merchandise, perhaps clothing and craftwork or food. Our evening supports our community and we hope you feel welcome and join us in lifting everyone up!

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Eli A Free is a singer-songwriter. The lead singer of Nyamekye Junction, he is also a resident at Oroko Radio and cofounder of Abantu+, a creative space that hosts conversations and live events, provides musical resources, and offers residencies. He also founded Soul Quest Concerts, a live music series that provided a platform for young Ghanaian artists, supported by Alliance Française Accra. He is passionate about providing resources for musicians and connecting artists across disciplines, from sound artists to graphic designers to DJs. https://www.instagram.com/eliafree/

Otis Mensah is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist whose work spans across fields of literature and sound, exploring the aesthetic fabric of language and cadence to evoke ethereal portraits of the body, family and notions of the Black church. Drawing inspiration from a rich lineage of sampling as an approach to their poetic-sonic practice, Otis derives musicality and multidimensional text from childhood, dreaming and nature. Otis has had a diverse calibre of experience in contemporary art both as artist and curator; publishing their poetry collection Safe Metamorphosis with Prototype London, debuting at Glastonbury Music Festival, performing alongside the likes of Moor Mother, Benjamin Zephaniah and Little Simz and working with a range of galleries and festivals across Europe.

 Concerned with an Abstractionist approach to language, Otis’ practice draws vitally from the likes of Norman Lewis and Jack Whitten, examining vivid experimentation with the materiality of paint as technique and lens for approaching text. Otis’ writing exalts the materiality of words to reveal a larger emotional landscape. By queering and subverting biblical language and parable, Otis exercises magical realism in their work, muddying the waters of memory and archival material with myth and portrayals of a Black diaspora. #Poetry #Avant-garde #Hiphop #Rap #Jazz    https://otismensah.bandcamp.com

Regis Molina is an energetic saxophonist and band-leader. With his bands he also is on a quest for the spiritual values within the music. In the Cuban culture music, dance and spirituality are interconnected to each other, principles that Molina translates to thru his music: ”You can´t really separate them from each other and I think about this in my playing and writing. I first learned how to dance rather than to play music, so I guess that’s why I love to have a sense of ’dancing’ in my body while I’m playing. It helps me to connect and interact more with other subtle elements in the music. Then I try to make them all sound like mine.“

His passion and dedication to music has seen him receive several awards as well as share the stage and the studio worldwide with several renowned musicians and bands, such as Ojos de Brujo, Aloe Blacc, Jimi Tenor, Tony Allen, Chucho Valdez, Stars of Buena Vista Social Club, Afrocuban Allstars, Helene Fischer and Samy DeLuxe. https://regismolina.bandcamp.com/album/sanga-abaku

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DJ's: ASA Collect is a DJ collective forged through a shared passion for music. As part of the Afro-Diaspora & Black community, our mission is to center and celebrate the rich tapestry of Black, African & Diasporan sounds. Our intention is to create spaces in the club scene designed for Black/ BIPoC, Queers & Femmes. Above all, we consider ASA as a collective space of care, empowerment & resource sharing and the dancefloor as a site of resistance & creative expression. https://www.instagram.com/asacollect/

DJ Femdelic  - Femdelic is a Berlin DJ who has built a solid reputation for coming to wreck your body, and turning the party out. She effortlessly shifts between all the delicious flavors of Funk; Electro Boogie, Afro, 80s Breakdance, Modern Funk Styles, RnB, House, Disco and plenty more gems galore. All stitched together with sharp technical finesse, a knowing wisdom of what's good for the dancefloor, and when to take those left turns that make the magic moments. The relationship and interactions between rhythm, groove and body movement are embedded into the Femdelic DNA. After getting the first records from her DJing Dad, Femdelic dived in the rich tapestry of Berlin's record stores and beyond.With each vinyl discovery, she went deeper into the realms of electric boogie, funk and disco music, pulling out hidden gems that would shape her musical identity.  ++++ Resident at Refuge worldwide RADIO   https://soundcloud.com/femdelic

OUR House band : Batila & The Dream Bus Berlin based live Band with excellent musicians such as Dodo NKishi on the drums, known from the iconic electronic group Mouse and Mars, upcoming Guitarist and producer Skyline Sun, 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 as the Band leader and songwriter, the sound of the Dreambus is quite unique, which Batila himself baptized as Bantu Soul, a fusion of all genres created and inspired by people of african descent. Bantu, the plural of muntu means people. “Music by people for people '' as Batila likes to say. Batila’s roots are in the Kongo and with his Artistic being he clearly declares his love for la “Rumba Congolaise '' and his continent. The sound is groovy, melodic with empowering messages and stories which will take you on a spiritual journey. And since it is a Dreambus, you will also experience many other extraordinary Artists jumping on and off the Bus.

https://www.instagram.com/batilasound

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

funded by @musicboardberlin