Saturday 15 March 2025, 7.30pm
Chupame El Dedo (suck my finger), is a collaboration between the Colombian bands Meridian Brothers and Romperayo, or to be more precise, between Eblis Alvarez and Pedro Ojeda respectively. It was created for a one-off live performance commissioned by the House of World Cultures in Berlin, for the Festival "Evil Music" in October 2013. The idea was to explore the death metal sound whilst adding strong tropical elements.
Because of the success the band still exists today. The first album was released in 2016 on Discrepant Records. Distorted voices, metal and even sometimes gabberhouse-like clichés are mixed with a tropical rhythm section made of salsa, cumbia, currulao & reggaeton.
Their second album No Te Metas Con Satan was released in spring 2019 on Souk (a sublabel of Discrepant), followed by an European tour during which they played a.o. Tremor (Azores), Alice (Denmark), and venues like Patronaat and Worm (both in The Netherlands). In 2021 they really killed it a Le Guess Who?.
Expect tropical disoriented madness, stylistic dislocation and curious sounds. Head banging mojitos!
"Like the geniuses Mike Patton and co., Hassan K blends folklore and new technologies, West and East, surf music and bellydance, swing and metal... Improbable? Impeccable." – Magic RPM
Above all, Hassan K. is more than 12 years of international performances (EU, US, Japan, North Africa, Turkey, Indonesia ...), concerts in halls, festivals, clubs, galleries, third places ... with a D.I.Y approach and always outside social networks, in coherence with my research subjects in interaction design and sociology of digital media.
Hassan K. is a French-Iranian one-man band with ambitious electro, surf, rock, metal and oriental compositions (without samples, composed with clicks and electric Iranian setar, with love).
It is above all a unique live experience, energetic, stirred by an insatiable passion for the scene, and a unique digital lutherie which allows to be close to the public. Unclassifiable, but all terrain and all audience.