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Saturday June 8th | Black Bear Lodge | $20 pre-sale | $25 door

Line-Up:
Rafiq Bhatia (NYC)
HRBRT
Waqef
L. Flora
Pending?
Andrew Ball (solo set)
Flying Nimbus

Welcome to the inaugural Super Sounds Brisbane 2019!
A new festival in Brisbane devoted to genre-bending music in the jazz sphere as well as young artists who are pushing jazz music into bold and unknown territory in 2019!

We are proud to announce this festival will be headlined by NYC based guitarist/composer Rafiq Bhatia. Bhatia is the first-generation American son of Muslim immigrant parents who trace their ancestry to India by way of East Africa. Early influences such as Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, and Madlib—as well as mentors and collaborators including Vijay Iyer and Billy Hart—prompted him to see music as a way to actively shape and represent his own identity, not limited by anyone else’s prescribed perspective. His latest album Breaking English (2018) ruptures the hermetic vernacular of ambient sculpturalism with the emotional intensity of avant-garde jazz, using the techniques of the former to achieve the feeling of the latter. Its language is centered on contrast, with opposing strains juxtaposed in order to throw each other into sharper relief—the organic feels more vibrant in the context of the mechanical, the otherworldly more ethereal in light of the ordinary.

Alongside Bhatia, Super Sounds Brisbane 2019 will also feature a plethora of local Brisbane talent with performances from experimental groovers HRBRT, the afro-beat inspired Waqef, neo-soul group L-Flora, experimental solo saxophonist Andrew Ball, jazz/prog/hip-hop hybrid Pending? and newcomers on the experimental jazz scene Flying Nimbus.

Super Sounds Brisbane 2019 is a joint initiative by Green Chimneys Records/SuperSonic , Art As Catharsis & MADE NOW MUSIC.