crucial

• Timeblind

Clandestino Festival has been arranged annually in Gothenburg, Sweden since 2003. The Clandestino Festival relates not only to recent migration movements and the multicultural diversity that characterises many of Europe segregated urban areas. It also strives to challenge the most common forms of expression used to represent cultural differences, and highlight the consequences of these representations for migrants in Sweden and elsewhere. Clandestino provokes people to rethink multiculturalism in a new way, beyond the ‘folklorification’ and the deeply rooted preoccupation with representing the other in exotic and demonizing terms. Through progressive dj-sessions, electronic and acoustic concerts, literary and visual events Clandestino has, both theoretically and practically, developed a critique of contemporary forms of colonial classification relating to the manufacture of culture in Western countries.

Buju Banton (Jamaica), Orchestra Baobab (Senegal); Konono N°1 (Congo-Kinshasa), Bass Fiction Live a.k.a. Kode 9 & The Spaceape (UK); Sublime Freqencies Tour (US); Omar Souleyman (Syria); Group Doueh (Western Sahara); Wildbirds & Peacdrums (Sweden); Timeblind (Germany), Trinh T Minh-ha (Vietman). Dj Wattsriot aka Earconditioning (Spain) Leila (Iran/UK - warp)

I might be on the 12th or 13th, not confirmed yet. awesome lineup I think !

More artists to be announced soon.

Konono got denied an entry visa to play last year.

http://www.myspace.com/clandestinofestival