Montreal-based artist Myriam Gendron performs live at Le Guess Who? 2024 following the release of her new album 'Mayday'.

About
Before the release of her first record a decade ago, Quebecois musician Myriam Gendron was busking in Paris, singing Leonard Cohen songs. In a striking full-circle moment, the artist's newest release, 'Mayday', sees her inching closer than ever to the icon's delicate balance of light and darkness. Singing in English and in French, Gendron reminds the listener that even the most pitch-black night is but a transactional state - this too shall pass.

Captured at Pieterskerk Utrecht on Saturday, 9 November 2024.

Audio recording by Lucas Broer; mix by Marc Broer
Photography by Lisanne Lentink

Myriam Gendron - Live at Le Guess Who? 2024

ASA-CHANG & Junray perform live at TivoliVredenburg's Pandora during Le Guess Who? 2024.

ASA-CHANG is the founder and original bandmaster of Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, who, upon leaving the ensemble in the early nineties, formed ASA-CHANG & Junray with programmer and guitarist Hidehiko Urayama. Now, the eccentric duo is accompanied by violinist Anzu Suhara. Named after their unique Jun-Ray Tronics, ASA-CHANG & Junray's band name also means 'pilgrimage', which makes sense; back from a pandemic-driven hiatus, they return to take music to places it has never been before.

Captured at TivoliVredenburg's Pandora on Friday, 8 November 2024.

Audio recording by Vera Kraaijkamp; mix by Marc Broer
Photography by Tim van Veen

ASA-CHANG & Junray - Live at Le Guess Who? 2024

Meshell Ndegeocello performs live at Le Guess Who? 2024, curated by Arooj Aftab, following the release of ‘No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin’.

About
Meshell Ndegeocello is a true multitalented and multifaceted artist: singer-songwriter, rapper, bassist, collaborator, GRAMMY-winner, neo-soul movement igniter. Yet, even when sinking seamlessly into each one of her many roles, she has always worn her artistry and identity as a proud Black queer woman on her sleeve. 

Her latest album, ‘No More Water’, released via Blue Note, is inspired by the work and legacy of writer and activist James Baldwin.  “All I want from the listening of this record is that maybe you go pick up one of his books,” she says. “It’s a win-win for me. I just want you to have the experience I had and maybe just change a kernel of yourself.”

Captured at TivoliVredenburg's Ronda on Sunday, 10 November 2024.

Meshell Ndegeocello – bass guitar, vocals
Abe Rounds – drums, vocals
Kyle Miles – bass guitar
Jebin Bruni – keyboards
Chris Bruce – guitar
Jake Sherman – organ
Justin Hicks – vocals 

Audio recording by Philip ten Brink; mix by Marc Broer
Photography by Lisanne Lentink

Meshell Ndegeocello - Live at Le Guess Who? 2024

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Cutting edge Palestinian duo Shabjdeed & Al Nather perform live at Le Guess Who? 2024, featuring two tracks from their momentous debut album Sindibad el Ward, released via BLTNM  Records. 

"Shabjdeed & Al Nather’s deft double-time rapping gets a rapturous response from the bouncing crowd" - CRACK Magazine

Captured at TivoliVredenburg's Ronda on Saturday, 9 November 2024.

Audio recording by Casper Lucas; mix by Marc Broer


Shabjdeed & Al Nather - Live at Le Guess Who? 2024

With his unshakeable conviction, found all over his rhymes and delivery, Zwangere Guy quickly became considered ‘the boss of Brussels rap’. 

Zwangere Guy performed live at TivoliVredenburg's Ronda during Le Guess Who? 2021 on the night before a new lockdown hit The Netherlands, mid-festival. You can now listen to three tracks of the performance: 'Beter Leven', 'Wie is Guy?', and 'RAF (Rien à Foutre)' from his 2019 debut album.

Recorded by Marc Broer & Ruben Kieftenbelt
Mixed by Marc Broer
Photography by Ben Houdijk

Zwangere Guy - Wie Is Guy?

Zwangere Guy - Beter Leven

Rival Consoles performs live at Le Guess Who? 2022 as part of the program curated by clipping.

About
Throughout his critically acclaimed fifteen-year career, London-based producer Ryan Lee West has reinvented himself with each lauded release. His work is bound, however, by his increasing drive to humanize sound. His music has evolved from his challenging early electronic output to more conceptual and metamorphic sonic theses, such as 2020’s ‘Articulation’ and last year’s ‘Overflow’- an emotional exploration of technological advance’s consequences to human nature. 2022 saw his much-awaited return with his eighth release via Erased Tapes, titled ‘Now Is’.

Recorded at TivoliVredenburg’s Ronda on Friday, 11 November 2022.

Recording and mix by Marc Broer 
Photography by Maarten Mooijman

Rival Consoles - Live at Le Guess Who? 2022

Noori & His Dorpa Band perform live at Le Guess Who? 2022, presented in collaboration with Ostinato Records.

About:
Noori's musical journey began far before Ostinato Records scouted his mysterious band in late 2021. In the nineties, the then eighteen-year-old came across a guitar neck in Port Sudan. Forging it with the vintage tambour his father had gifted him, he created the electrified tambo-guitar. Ever since, Noori has used his creation to uplift the ever-resilient Beja community, whose long history is rife with oppression from the Sudanese government. Their album 'Beja Power!' is the Beja people's first international musical encounter, and, with Ostinato Records, Noori & His Dorpa Band have created a moving, necessary archive of the radiance in resistance. 

Recorded at TivoliVredenburg’s Grote Zaal on Thursday, 10 November 2022.

Recording and mix by Marc Broer 
Photography by Jelmer de Haas

Noori & His Dorpa Band - Saagama

Le Cri du Caire perform live at Le Guess Who? 2023 following the release of their self-titled debut album.

About:
Singer, writer, poet, and expressionist Abdullah Miniawy became, in the wake of the revolution, an artistic emblem for Egypt’s agitated youth. Alongside Peter Corser on the saxophone and Karsten Hochapfel on the cello, he is sure to grip audiences as Le Cri du Caire. Blending rock, jazz, sprinkles of oriental flourishes, spoken word, and Sufi poetry and philosophy, the three-piece adorn each room they play in with a rich metaphorical universe transcending identities and borders. Their self-titled debut, released in January, serves as a sample of what can be achieved on the stage.

Recorded at Jacobikerk Utrecht on Friday, 10 November 2023.

Abdullah Miniawy: voice
Peter Corser: saxophone
Karsten Hochapfel: cello

Audio recording by Vera Kraaijkamp; mix by Marc Broer
Photography by Jelmer de Haas

Le Cri du Caire - Pearls for Orphans

Le Cri du Caire - Splendid Tales

Georgia's Pankisi Ensemble perform live at Le Guess Who? 2023 as part of the Hidden Musics program. 

About:
The Pankisi Ensemble goes against the typical 'ethno-fusion' grain in two ways. First, by not restricting tradition to a putrid, embalmed state, but by allowing their experimentation to take them to new grounds; secondly, by not letting go of their integrity. The women’s ensemble was founded by musician and folk music researcher Bela Mutoshvili. The group let the world in on vocal and instrumental practices of Chechen music, seldom ever heard by outsiders. Additionally, they borrow from the sound of various Georgian territories, making them a moving mosaic of the Caucasus region’s varied culture.

Bela Mutoshvili - voice, accordion
Lana Gunashashvili - voice, pondar (Chechen lute)
Linda Gunashashvili - voice
Mariami Bagakashvili – voice

Recorded at Jacobikerk Utrecht on Friday, 10 November 2023.

Audio recording by Vera Kraaijkamp; mix by Marc Broer  
Photography by Tim van Veen

Pankisi Ensemble - Kurmadila (Sufi Chant)

Anglo-French avant-pop group Stereolab have been hailed as one of the most influential and fiercely independent groups of the 90s. As one of the guest curators of Le Guess Who? 2023, the group performed as closing act of the festival.

Recorded at TivoliVredenburg's Ronda on Sunday, 12 November 2023. 

Lætitia Sadier - Vocals / Guitar / Keyboards
Timothy Gane - Guitar 
Andrew Ramsay - Drums 
Joseph Watson - Keyboards 
Xavier Muñoz Guimera - Bass

Audio recording by Philip ten Brink and Marc Broer
Mix by Marc Broer
Photography by Tim van Veen

Stereolab - Pack Yr Romantic Mind

New York City rapper MIKE performs live at Le Guess Who? 2023 as part of the program curated by Slauson Malone 1.

Recorded at TivoliVredenburg’s Pandora on Friday, 10 November 2023.

Audio recording by Casper Lucas; mix by Marc Broer  
Photography by Maarten Mooijman

MIKE - Set the Mood

MIKE - African Sex Freak Fantasy

MIKE - Aww (Zaza) / Evil Eye

MIKE - Ho-Rizin / Ipari Park

MIKE - Burning Desire

Myriam Gendron - Par un dimanche au soir

Myriam Gendron - Au cœur de ma délire

Myriam Gendron - Go Away From My Window

Myriam Gendron - Threnody

Myriam Gendron - There Is No East Or West

ASA-CHANG & Junray - 花

ASA-CHANG & Junray - 12節

ASA-CHANG & Junray - kaikyou

ASA-CHANG & Junray - つぎねぷと言ってみ

ASA-CHANG & Junray - Mahou (Magic)

ASA-CHANG & Junray - 影の無いヒト

Alex Zhang Hungtai performs live at Le Guess Who? 2024 following the release of his latest album 'Young God's Run Free'. 

About
There is life after Dirty Beaches. Taiwanese-born, Montréal-hailing Alex Zhang Hungtai was born anew after retiring from the project, and, since then, has dived fully into the role of composer. Tinkering with the saxophone, synthesizers, percussion, and piano, Zhang has embraced the free form, focusing on explorations of improvised music, free jazz, and ritualistic music of liminality. On the stage, Hungtai deepens his research into complex psychoacoustics, turning the audiences into students of sound, mouths agape. 

Captured at Pieterskerk Utrecht on Saturday, 9 November 2024.

Audio recording by Lucas Broer; mix by Marc Broer
Photography by Jelmer de Haas

Alex Zhang Hungtai - Live at Le Guess Who? 2024

Asher Gamedze with Another Time Ensemble perform live at Le Guess Who? 2024 as part of Chromesthesia, curated by Hannah Elsisi.

About
In 2020, Cape Town, South Africa-based drummer Asher Gamedze found himself in Cairo assembling a quintet made up of some of the capital’s finest improvisers; Maurice Louca, Alan Bishop, Cherif El-Masri, and Adham Zidan. Another Time Ensemble had come to be. The group perceives music and time as manifold, and soundtrack the thought that another time is possible. Their playing is so immersive we might be in it already.

From Rio to Cairo, Miami to Kampala, Chromesthesia tracks Afro-diasporic rhythms and explores the history that undergirds Afro-descendant electronic music.

Captured at TivoliVredenburg's Pandora on Friday, 8 November 2024.

Audio recording by Vera Kraaijkamp; mix by Marc Broer
Photography by Juri Hiensch

Asher Gamedze with Another Time Ensemble - out stepped zim

Meshell Ndegeocello - Trouble

Meshell Ndegeocello - Travel

Meshell Ndegeocello - On The Mountain

Meshell Ndegeocello - Intro / What Did I Do?

Meshell Ndegeocello - Eyes

Frente Abierto featuring Israel Fernández & Lela Soto perform live at Le Guess Who? 2024. 

In the flamenco world, Frente Abierto is presenting new possibilities; by welcoming genres as diverse as metal and ambient into their realm, the music they play takes on a whole new form. Their sound fuses this experimental streak with some of new flamenco’s most powerful singers. This year, the Andalusian group is touring stages alongside Israel Fernández, a cantaor capable of bridging the gap between present and past, and Lela Soto, one of the most promising young voices to emerge from the scene in recent years. Together, they redefine tradition.

Captured at TivoliVredenburg's Ronda on Saturday, 9 November 2024.

Audio recording by Casper Lucas; mix by Marc Broer
Photography by Lisanne Lentink

Frente Abierto feat. Lela Soto - Bambera

Frente Abierto feat. Lela Soto - Alegrías

Frente Abierto feat. Lela Soto - la Caña

Frente Abierto feat. Israel Fernández & Lela Soto - Tientos

Frente Abierto feat. Israel Fernández & Lela Soto - Soleá

Maurice Louca performs 'Fera' with Ayman Asfour live at Le Guess Who? 2024 as part of Chromesthesia, curated by Hannah Elsisi.

Fera is a wild and adventurous new work that Egyptian artist Maurice Louca wrote over a four-year period. Taking its title from the Latin root for the word feral, the album has its origins in a solo set that Louca first developed for a music festival in Italy in 2019; the compositions eventually took their final shape when he recorded them in a Cairo studio in 2024 with a group of longtime collaborators and guests. Hypnotic polyrhythms play a central role on Fera, creating the pulse for a sound that’s rich in acoustic tonality and lively energy. Louca uses custom-made, microtonal guitars to explore nuanced phrasings, and his languid interplay with violin, synthesizer, and other instruments lead to moments of vivid beauty. Fera is some of the most composed and thoughtfully-crafted music Louca has ever made, but of course it’s guided by the dynamic experimentation and collaborative spark that have become central to his work. Look out for the studio album, released via Simsara Records: https://mauricelouca.bandcamp.com/album/bar-y-fera

Captured at TivoliVredenburg's Grote Zaal on Saturday, 9 November 2024.

Composed and arranged by Maurice Louca
Performed by Maurice Louca (Keyboard, electronics, microtonal guitar, lap steel guitar) and Ayman Asfour (violin)
Audio recording by Vera Kraaijkamp; mix by Marc Broer
Photography by Jelmer de Haas

Maurice Louca's Fera with Ayman Asfour - Live at Le Guess Who? 2024



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A Patchwork Woven with Sound - COSMOS & Le Guess Who? - 24 May 2025

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Various Encounters - COSMOS & Dublin Digital Radio - 10 Jun 2025

Dispatch - COSMOS & Seyðisfjörður Community Radio - 10 Jun 2025

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The Creative Sound of Panamá  - COSMOS & Aquiles Navarro - 14 Jun 2025

New Sounds of Pakistan - COSMOS & Zeerak Ahmed - 14 Jul 2025

Shabjdeed & Al Nather - Nkd Glg

Shabjdeed & Al Nather - Arab Style

Selda Bağcan is a legendary Turkish singer and political activist. Her first singles, about political struggle and the demands of the working class, sold over 1 million copies. Selda’s psychedelic interpretations of traditional Turkish folk music and her political views have lost Selda her passport and caused her to be repeatedly imprisoned during the 70s and 80s.

As main guest of Le Guess Who? Festival 2014, Selda gave an equally joyous as emotional performance. St. Vincent and tUnE-yArDs, both admirers of the singer, performed before she took the stage. "The iconic Turkish protest singer convinced a room full of people, to dance, hug, and cry. If that’s not festival magic, I don’t know what is." - MTV Iggy

Le Guess Who? is very proud to be able to share the recordings of this captivating performance as a one-time, limited edition vinyl release of just 500 copies. See http://leguesswho.bigcartel.com for more info. 

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Le Guess Who? 2016 takes place November 10-13 in Utrecht, The Netherlands, featuring the great Wilco. For more info, see www.leguesswho.com.

Watch the video portrait about Selda we made together with De Volkskrant, about her music getting banned by Turkish authorities and being jailed. "Songs are more dangerous than weapons, you know": https://youtu.be/ebixsj3Arjw

Selda Bağcan - Adaletin Bu Mu Dünya?, Live at Le Guess Who? 2014

Electronic explorer James Holden presented his new performance ‘James Holden and The Animal Spirits’ live at Le Guess Who? 2017, featuring two tracks from his new album; a record that enhances Holden’s past in trance music with his love for Moroccan Gnawa music.  

Recorded by Marc Broer at Le Guess Who? 2017 on Saturday, 11 November. Recordings made in cooperation with VPRO / Vrije Geluiden: https://www.vpro.nl/vrije-geluiden/lees/festivals/lgw/2017.html

Watch live footage of the performance: https://www.leguesswho.nl/news/revisit-james-holden-the-animal-spirits-live-performance-at-lgw17

Photography by Sara Amroussi-Gilissen. 
More info on Le Guess Who?: www.leguesswho.com

James Holden & The Animal Spirits - Go Gladly Into The Earth

Accordeon maestro Mario Batkovic performed at Le Guess Who? 2017, as part of the program curated by James Holden.

About
It's kind of funny how one of Mario Batkovic's most well-known pieces is called Restrictus, as ‘restricting’ is quite the opposite of his enthralling mastery of the accordion. The Switzerland-based, Bosnia-born musician reaches a vast musical range with his instrument, rivalling the great minimalist composers of our modern age.

Recorded by Marc Broer at Le Guess Who? 2017 on Saturday, 11 November. Recordings made in cooperation with VPRO / Vrije Geluiden: https://www.vpro.nl/vrije-geluiden/lees/festivals/lgw/2017.html

Photography by Melanie Marsman.
More info on Le Guess Who?: www.leguesswho.com

Mario Batkovic - Restrictus

After eight decades of triumph and tragedy, Brazilian protest singer Elza Soares is lauded as queen of samba and a powerful voice against repression and injustice relating to gender, race, sexual orientation and class. 

At Le Guess Who? 2016, Soares gave a powerful performance, presenting work from her 34th album, The Woman at the End of the World, for which Soares left her hometown of Rio de Janeiro to collaborate with key players from São Paulo’s samba sujo (‘dirty samba’) scene. Together they made a masterpiece of 21st century Brazilian music that draws as much from avant-garde, rock, noise, jazz, soul, dub, funk as samba’s oral history. On top, Elza sings, spits and screams tales of a life in Brazil that is anything but a tropical paradise.

Recorded by VPRO 3voor12 at Le Guess Who? 2016 Saturday, 12 November. Watch the entire performance at the festival: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MszSFd6pXc

Photography by Jelmer de Haas.
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Elza Soares - Maria Da Vila Matilde

Powerhouse duo Lightning Bolt performed live at Le Guess Who? 2019 in Utrecht, The Netherlands, marking the 25th Anniversary of the band. The performance was curated by Patrick Higgins. 

About:
Lightning Bolt’s shows are the stuff of myth and legend, unleashing a hailstorm of noise that would leave every venue smoldering in dust and vapors for weeks. Two decades after their acclaimed self-titled LP, that firebrand streak burns as piping hot and surprising as ever. Seventh full-length LP ‘Sonic Citadel’ actually abandons the mask of distortion for more stripped-down, naked pop forms.

Captured on Friday, 8 November 2019, at TivoliVredenburg's Ronda during Le Guess Who? 2019.
Recorded and mixed by Marc Broer & Philip ten Brink.
Photography by Jelmer de Haas.

Lightning Bolt - Air Conditioning / Dead Cowboy

Lightning Bolt - Horsepower

Lightning Bolt - Blow To The Head

Lightning Bolt - Over The River And Through The Woods

Lightning Bolt - The Metal East

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