Aylu – meakusma

March 13, 2025

Sommerloch w/Good Sad Happy Bad, Jabu, Aylu, Chunky…

presented by ArsVitha & meakusma

Good Sad Happy Bad
Jabu
Aylu
Chunky
M I M I
Hans P. Kjorstad & Ernst Reijseger
Samizdat
Naomie Klaus
soFa
Fog Puma
Cosmo
Pangea Libra
& more tbc

more info soon…

SOMMERLOCH, WALLERODE, BELGIUM, 15.08.2025

Come summer comes a new project, a new idea. Sommerloch is a one-day event with two stages at the beautiful Hof Gut Eidt in Wallerode, Belgium, some three kilometers from the town of Sankt Vith. The farm sports the perfect conditions for an event like this, with a big barn where concerts will be held and a beautiful meadow with beautiful old trees where we will set up a second stage. From 1999 to 2002, we curated the electronic music program for the Alive Festival right around the corner from this very location, with the then lineup featuring 808 State, A Guy Called Gerald, Speedy J, Swayzak, Robert Hood, Prefuse 73, and many more.

On the lineup for this first edition of Sommerloch will be samizdat, Chunky, Good Sad Happy Bad, Ernst Reijseger & Hans P. Kjorstad, Aylu, Jabu, Naomie Klaus, soFa, MIMI, and many more to be confirmed.

CAMPING AND ACCOMMODATION

Those who visited the Weekender Festival in 2023 might remember the farm and its beautiful location right on the Ravel bike path as one of the camping sites of the festival. Sommerloch visitors can camp for free in the field of the farm. The farm itself has showers and toilets available. Although a one-day event, people are allowed to camp for two nights. There are bed-and-breakfasts and hotels around in the neighboring town of Sankt Vith. The Sommerloch website will provide an overview of all accommodation options available.

HOW TO GET THERE

We are setting up a bus transfer from Brussels to Sommerloch after the successful bus experiment we did for our party at Open Ground in Wuppertal. Tickets for the bus are available in the webshop of the Sommerloch website. If we do not manage to fill up the bus, we reserve ourselves the right to cancel the trip. In this case, the bus fare will be transferred back without any fees or expenses. The bus will leave Brussels in the afternoon of the 15th and will drive back when the event is over, at 3 AM. Although our shuttle bus will of course be the most comfortable way to travel, for those of you taking the train, you can take the Ostend-Eupen line, get out in Eupen and there take bus 23 to Wallerode. People coming by car should take the E42 highway which passes only a few kilometers from Wallerode.

More information about Sommerloch and all practicalities is coming soon, so stay tuned! See you in deep summer!

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“So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.”

from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

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March 13, 2025

Masma Dream World, Aylu

Masma Dream World (Valley of Search, Northern Spy)

Listening to Devi Mambouka, the artist known as Masma Dream World, is bearing witness to a personal journey through hell and back.

The experimental project led by Mambouka, Masma Dream World turned heads with her 2020 debut Play at Night, a record that established the multi-instrumentalist as a singular voice, combining field recordings, throttling bass, skittering electronics and traditional Gabonese rhythms for an awe inspiring, transportative sound. Previous single “PLEASE COME TO ME” is an aural ritual, an invocation to the mother of the universe and a communion with the unseen world. The track was highlighted at The FADER, Paste Magazine, and The New York Times.

With roots in Gabon and Singapore, Mambouka is a child of the world. She recalls rainforest rituals and the presence of ghosts and spirits throughout her childhood in Gabon before immigrating to The Bronx. Here, instead of forests, she lost herself in record stores and began a spiritual, educational journey, DJing and immersing herself in NYC’s nightlife. A former Catholic school student, she studied religions of all kinds but found her guides in magic, maternal Hindu ancestors, the Black Madonna and Kali, the Hindu goddess of creation and destruction, and the mother of the forgotten ones.

https://www.masmadreamworld.com/
https://masmadreamworld.bandcamp.com/album/play-at-night

Aylu (Mana – ARG)

Ailín Grad (aka Aylu) designs audio spaces from Buenos Aires, releasing solo music and collaborating with video, dance and performance contemporary artists as her main practice: contemporary art PORTFOLIO
She’s also a cook and culinary artist, working in collaboration with other artists in different projects: cooking

Ailin Grad takes ordinary objects and instruments and pieces them together in electro-acoustic systems: gears, geometries, woodwinds and designs of a fuzzy and unexpected space. She has been releasing music for more than ten years independently and via Orange Milk, Sun Ark, Mana Records and soon via Other People, Nicolas Jaar’s record label. She has performed in Buenos Aires most important venues: Teatro Colon’s experimentation Centre, LIPM, CCK, Usina del Arte, CCGSM, C3, and internationally in Fundación Telefónica Perú, H0L0 (NY), Tate Modern (London), Kraak Festival y (Brussels).

https://ailingrad.my.canva.site/portfolio-eng