Cyril Cyril + Madalitso Band

Where Else? and Smugglers Agency present an almighty feast of music to move your limbs to.

Cyril Cyril and Madalitso Band!!

Geneva-based duo Cyril Cyril explore the boundaries of genres and traditions. For Cyril Yeterian and Cyril Bondi, it's all about creating a totally new sound with a hypnotic effect. With only a banjo, a strange drum kit, several voices and several languages as companions, Cyril Cyril digs a furrow in the laser of the soul and, for a few tracks, transcends the decorous restraint of damned souls. The tandem, disguised as a ghostly brass band, bursts onto the dancefloor like a phoenix...

The sound is reduced to its simplest form, with a feverish rhythm that puts you in a trance. It's ‘big, fat, psychedelic, ethno disco’, as music lovers say of Cyril Cyril, whose art is always an adventure.

\--With just an acoustic guitar and foot drum, an outsize, home-made, one-string babatone, two voices in sweet harmony and buckets of charm, Malawi's dynamic duo have elevated audiences at WOMAD and Roskilde and a host of venues throughout Europe. Previously they had been earning a living playing on the streets of their home-town Lilongwe for ten years before they were discovered by a local producer and recorded their first album in 2009. Word-of-mouth eventually secured them an appearance at Zanzibar's Sauti Za Busara festival in 2017. Six months later they were on an aeroplane for the first time in their lives, heading for their first European tour.

Presented by Night Harvest.

This is an all ages event