Babau is a duo consisting of Luigi Monteanni and Matteo Pennesi, both born in 1992 and raised in Potenza Picena, a small town in the Marche, Italy.
Babau (which means boogeyman or “black man” in the italian folklore) started as an ambient/post-rock bedroom project. Following the release of the self produced ep “Tapes from the bedroom”, the duo, captivated by the post-War American exotica and by many other sounds found procrastinating on Youtube, decided to focus the sound on the world music, the psychedelia and the new texan-californian dub vibes.
After some improvised sessions and a radical change of the live set (including, among the others, a bunch of ethnic percussions, a bass clarinet and an electric thai phin); the duo was invited by Manuel Kopf to record some tracks at the Plaster Studio, getting finally an new ep, Papalagi, which was published on cassette tape by Artetetra (Home-run indie label, founded by Luigi and Matteo) and Narvalo Suoni (italian DIY label).
Babau is playing in Berlin for the first time and after the Occulto night party in Loophole will present a session of tropical dub improvised sounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqY1ygwcrzU
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Artetetra is a newborn DIY label from Marche, Italy founded by Matteo Pennesi and Luigi Monteanni (both members of Tetuan and Babau). The label is part of a wider project of art collective with the participation of other members. The productions in audiocassette are home crafted, from audio dubbing to packaging, for this reason the number of copies is usually limited. The artists are not chosen for the music genre but the factors that determine a production are the attitude and the aestethetics affinity.ArteTetra is a label interested mainly in world music, psychedelia, lo-fi sounds, dub and tropical derivations of these genres.
23:00 After Party -.,.- IntrushWeTrust – djset italina tash, international marines, italodisco, romantic techno, dance until you feel you body and then continue like this!
