Chloe Ryo, Yao Bobby & Simon Grab, Slikback @flucc, 18 April

My attention and relaxation took a long time to get to nice levels so I don’t feel like I can comment on Chloe’s set other than that she seemed cool and nice and made cool sounds. Yao Bobby & Simon Grab were less noisy than expected but really sick, I love a live synth jam and if it’s a Swiss boomer nerd with a Palestine T-shirt doing it to the rapping of a angry Togolese activist guy and getting progressively more dubby with it, well what’s better than that? Turns out: Slikback is better than that. Slikback indeed gave me the energy I didn’t feel I had anymore, they grabbed me by the attention span, and I don’t even want to describe it because I tried it before and failed. I don’t know if describing what their set was made out of can convey the powerful fuckery that happened more than describing chords can convey some of, idk, the most beautiful and poignant pieces I ever played on the harpsichord – although that’s maybe a weak point to bring up because I kinda resisted learning the theory behind the chords until the end of my education..