Now 82 years old, looking back at 30 albums and a 50 year career, Bonga has experienced multiple lives. First as an athlete, he ran the 400 meters for Portugal, which once colonized Angola, before playing football for Benfica in Lisbon. As an activist, he campaigned against the Portuguese oppression of the Salazar regime and for the independence of his native land, which ultimately led him to his exile in the Netherlands. Then, in Rotterdam, he met a strong Cape Verdean community, composed music alongside them and gave birth to one of the greatest albums of African music: Angola 72.
Bonga has now become an African music icon.

Identity does not mean being the same, but at the same time. Luanda and Brugg at the same time. Simultaneously flying and falling, the good knee and the broken knee, the old medicine. Dance music that pays homage to anomalies in the mind and biographical irregularities. Gladly with a chorus, because Dino Brandao is still a cancioneiro, devoted to the song and the bittersweet symphony, a friend of the grand gesture. He unfolds this little pop music map of the world in crooked proportions. He strokes the drums of yesteryear, plays the foggy synthesizers, kicks on the drum machine - gleefully entangled in all directions. Dino Brandao can be all that and dances on the shards of his mirror image.
He opens the evening with a short solo set.

Kornelia Binicewicz is a Polish-born DJ, record collector and founder of the Ladies on Records project. She travels the world in search of obscure and captivating music, creating energetic DJ sets.