Zar Electrik | Cambridge, IL

🍉 6pm - potluck/social hour

🎤 7pm - show

💵 $25-35 suggested donation

👨‍👩‍👧 All ages, family-friendly

💧 Rain location: Bishop Hill Creative Commons

Bring lawn chairs/blankets, BYOB

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https://www.lamastrock.com/zar-electrik

ZAR ELECTRIK, a Franco-Moroccan trio, has created a marriage of Gnawan trance with loops of sub-Saharan music and bewitching electro. The result is an engagingly dynamic celebration!

"Zar Electrik, whose name references a healing ritual from the Horn of Africa, takes a modern approach to Gnawa, not only infusing the music with electronic production but also an electric kora — creating a sub-Saharan rave sung in Arabic, French and Darija." -NPR Music

When the encounter between two activists from the Mediterranean music scene leads to the marriage of Gnouwan trance, loops of sub-Saharan music and bewitching electro, the celebration is necessarily explosive. On the tracks of this African techno, Anass Zine and Arthur Pineau, both singer-instrumentalists with guimbre, oud, and electric kora, take Didier Miosine to the machines for a mesmerizing trip to the borders of the Maghreb. Behind the enchanting and full-throated voices, the call to dance beckons via rhythms and ternary jolts bathed in electro. Their sound rotates until it evolves into a dizzying, bubbling and swirling mass of infinite trance-like vibes, with echoes of the Orient and stateless grooves.

Annass ZINE : Voice, Oud, Gumbri, Guitar, Carcabas, percussion

Arthur PENEAU : Voice, Kora, percussion

Didier SIMIONE : Sound Machines, synthesizers

The trance of African electro Zar Electrik is a trio from Marseille, active on the Mediterranean music scene. Anass Zine’s captivating voice with Maghrebian influences, accompanied by traditional instruments such as oud and gumbri, subtly blends with Arthur Péneau’s deep voice. The latter introduces his hybrid African influences through the kora which he mystifies with electric effects. The composer and producer Didier Miosine comes to sublimate everything. He brings his knowledge and mastery of machines, synths and codes of electronic music. The whole is explosive. Together they create a rich and generous music, a crossing between the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa and the West.

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The potluck is optional, but it is a great chance to connect others in the audience and maybe even share a meal with the artist. It also helps ensure the artist isn't having to have a meal from a gas station. We'll provide the plates, bowls, silverware, napkins, and, if you need it, serving spoons. Feel free to bring anything you'd like--an entrée, appetizer, dessert, or drink to share. Bring something you will enjoy eating, because if you enjoy it, it is likely others will as well.

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This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Illinois Humanities, and the Doris and Ken Charitable Trust.

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