RENETTE DÉSIR & DON KAPOT release party + Lázara Rosell Albear + Aquiles Navarro

▲ RENETTE DÉSIR & DON KAPOT Considered one of the most captivating and authentic voices of the contemporary Haitian music scene, Renette Désir was born in Port-au-Prince, where she developed an early passion for the music of her country, a product of a blending of Taino heritage, African traditions, Caribbean, and European influences. She grew up to the rhythms of voodoo music which runs through emblematic repertoires of Haiti such as konpas, meringue, rara, and misik rasin. In 2025, she fled her country and arrived in Brussels. It is there that she met the Belgian free jazz, afrobeat, and krautpunk trio Don Kapot*, with whom she develops a singular musical universe. Beyond a simple artistic collaboration, the album "Nou Pran Bal" ("We took gunfire") tells a story of displacement, rupture, survival, and reinvention. * Giotis Damianidis (bass and guitar), Viktor Perdieus (saxophones and various instruments) and Joao Lobo (drums) ▲ LÁZARA ROSELL ALBEAR Lazara Rosell Albear (born in 1971 in Cuba) is a Cuban-Belgian artist whose practice is multidisciplinary. She explores sound and performance, and creates films, drawings, installations, and events. Collaboration and sharing are at the heart of her artistic approach. She explores movement, migration, transformation, interactivity, and their effects on the human condition. She collaborates with a wide range of artists, including the MahaWorks Collective and the Art Ensemble of Brussels. ▲ AQUILES NAVARRO (dj set) Aquiles Navarro, a Panamanian-born Canadian settled in New York and based in Brussels, is a trumpeter, composer, DJ, producer, and founder of the River Down Records label. A founding member of Irreversible Entanglements, his musical practice draws on the folkloric traditions of Panama, afro-diasporic musics, avant-garde and spiritual jazz, salsa, reggae, and electronic experimentation. Through his performances, compositions, DJ sets, and label curation work, he creates spaces for cultural exchange, collective improvisation, and the constant evolution of contemporary music.