Some festivals have resident DJs, we have a resident drummer! Valentina is playing for the 3rd time in a row, each time with a different project. This year she’s joined by Portuguese Artist Nídia. Valentina Magaletti is a drummer-composer and multi-instrumentalist with an inventive approach to drums and percussion. Her versatile technique, which can incorporate anything from vibes and marimba to contact microphones and found objects, results in a style that is forever evolving. Feeling just as comfortable performing behind a delicate ceramic kit as she does hammering out motorik rhythms, her creative take on percussion has resulted in a diverse discography and many interesting collaborations.
As a drummer, Magaletti moves effortlessly between the seemingly disparate worlds of alternative and mainstream music. She has played with artists such as Jandek, Pat Thomas, Deb Googe, Malcolm Mooney, Thurston Moore, Steve Beresford, Steve Shelley, Lafawndah, Mica Levi, Sampha, Nicolas Jaar to name a few. In addition to collaborating with the gamelan Ensemble Nist-Nah and drummers Malcom Catto, Julian Sartorius and Charles Hayward, she has played with stalwarts of the experimental underground scene like Gnod’s Marlene Ribeiro, Wire’s Graham Lewis, and Thighpaulsandra (Coil). In 2017, Valentina participated in The Can Project, standing in for the late Jaki Liebezeit, at London’s Barbican Centre. She’s also a member of Moin, Holy Tongue, Vanishing Twin…
Nídia is an internationally acclaimed Afro-Portuguese electronic producer and DJ, based out of Vale da Amoreira, south bank of River Tagus, across from Lisbon. As part of the Príncipe Discos record label and artistic collective, she has been having a decisive role, both as an individual artist and as within the community, in bringing inspiringly progressive aesthetics and ethics to the contemporary alternative dance infrastructure across the globe, and the kuduro culture in particular. Born in Portugal in 1997, of Cape Verde and Guiné-Bissau heritage, on his father’s and mother’s side, respectively. She grew up in Vale da Amoreira, a suburb town in the south bank of the Tagus river, across Lisbon. In the last few years she has been busy travelling and performing all over the world, in a variety of contexts, such as Documenta in Kassel, an all star UK grime and afrobeats Just Jam bash at the Barbican Centre, Sónar Barcelona, Lowlands Festival, the São Paulo and New York Red Bull Music Festivals editions, an European Union Office in Angola music night in Luanda, an epic NYE in Tokyo’s WWWβ, etc.
Fri, 10-11pm, Château Comtal
