Today we’re painting a canvas. Here’s our palette: a sharp, unrestrained blue; the thirsty, glowing yellow of hot coals; volcanic red; bittersweet orange; and a pearly white that transcends time and space.
Welcome to the exhibition opening. Chilled white wine is over there.
BLUE BOYS CLUB – RELAX
Just relax—that’s all you need to escape corporate exhaustion. With biting satire, the Parisian trio BLUE BOYS CLUB punctures the capitalist fever dream. Singing bowls meet glitchy electro-punk in an exaggerated world that does not conceal the absurdity, but rather erects a monument to it. At the end of the rat race lies burnout, which can quite simply be worked off by the next consumption. And hey, if that doesn’t help: just relax. Madness, set to music.
CLUSTERSUN – Fire! Fire! Fire!
Fire! Fire! Fire! With unapologetic radicalism, the Sicilian trio CLUSTERSUN burns a manifesto for incineration into your ears: shoegaze embers glow beneath your feet, flames of noise lick and flicker psychedelically up your legs, the guitar sprays dazzling sparks into your face. No pain, just ecstasy at the savage burning.
Theodore – Red
With a grand gesture, the Greek artist Theodore throws open the gates to hymnal opulence. Behind them, a volcano simmers, ready to pour itself onto the world with intense vigour. Red rears up fiercely, yet amid the overwhelming power, it finds emotionally subdued nuances that lend substance to the grandiose production. The chorus’s explosive catharsis celebrates the beauty of dissolving into one’s own insignificance.
Mel D – Orange
It’s not the colour, but the fruit itself, that serves as a metaphor for the lyrical ‘I’, precisely peeled from its own skin to reveal the paradox beneath. The sweetness, but also the bitterness. Mel D dissects this ambivalent Orange in a hypnotic space full of playful textures and dancing timbres. Yet a note of self-criticism also emerges. “I’ve certainly been the orange, but I’ve definitely also been the person doing the peeling,” says Mel D.
- Dive deeper: Our review of Mel D’s debut album, Young Bones
Egopusher – Pearl
Cinematic Dance Music. It’s impossible to surpass this self-description by the Swiss duo Egopusher. After a lengthy creative hiatus, drummer and producer Alessandro Giannelli and violinist Tobias Preisig are reopening the door to their cosmos with Pearl, a world that ranges from galactic rave to melancholic longing. And in this cosmos, one loses oneself in the vastness and within oneself; the sense of space and time melts away so beautifully.
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