A concert of BEBSON DE LA RUE and TRIONYX in the Pan African Space Station, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA.

The Pan African Space Station (PASS) is a 30-day music intervention from September 12 - October 12, on radio and the internet, as well as venues across greater Cape Town.


With: Bebson De La Rue (voice); Dicoco Boketshu (bass, video); Djanga (drums, percussion); guests DJs and musicians

WHERE/ WHEN: the Assembly in District 6 (Wed Oct 1, from 9pm); Guga S'thebe in Langa (Fri Oct 3, from 6pm)

Bebson de la Rue is a singer/rapper and the leader of Tryonix, an Afrofuturist project based in Kinshasa (DRC). As poet laureate of Kinshasa's streets (hence his nickname "De La Rue" meaning "Of the streets"), Bebson is an influential figure in Ngbaka, one of the city's most notorious ghettos, where he also teaches music and dance. He is also an inventor of music instruments and sound machines, some of which are used during Tryonix's performances. Bebson and his brother Dicoco Boketshu, a bass player and video artist, formed Tryonix during the mid-1990s, as a collaborative project that blends Congolese rumba with rap and Jamaican raggamuffin with jazz sensibilities and electronica. Lyrically, Bebson taps into his vast knowledge of proverbs, Mongo chants and Kinshasa's street slang. A sound they call Original Raggamuffin Folklore (ORF). In 1998, Tryonix released their critically acclaimed album entitled Mazapo, which lead to appearances at festivals across the DRC. They've since performed in Cameroon, Belgium and France.

Concert BEBSON DE LA RUE & TRIONYX au Ghetto Kota Okola Lundi 22 septembre 2008 à 20H00
Production : MOWOSO
Photos : Aurélie Grimberghs

Dicoco Boketshu (série à gauche) et Eléonore Hellio (série à droite)
exposent leur travail à AFRIKARIBOU.
Intervention d'Eléonore Hellio le lundi 22 septembre 2008 à
l'Académie des Beaux-arts de Kinshasa.

Dicoco Boketshu et Eléonore Hellio à PIXELACHE, Helsinki, Finlande