Gloria de Oliveira (de) German-Brazilian multidisciplinary visual artist and musician, Gloria de Oliveira's full length debut “Fascination” was released via Reptile Music and Cargo Records in 2020, including remixes by Gudrun Gut, Tellavision, Box And The Twins and others. It was the follow-up to her EPs “La Rose de Fer” and “Lèvres de Sang” - released on limited edition cassette tape through her own imprint La Double Vie and the cult cassette label Dispersion in 2019. She has recently composed the score to Peter Thiers’ play “Paradiesische Bauten”, which premiered at Hamburg's Thalia Theater, followed by the score of and performance at the Bora Aksu Autumn/Winter 22/23 Catwalk show at London Fashion Week. De Oliveira directed a multitude of outstanding music videos and acted in the much celebrated Netflix production "Babylon Berlin", alongside many other titles as an actor. Her new album, a collaboration with David Lynch-protegé Dean Hurley, is coming out this summer on Sacred Bones (NYC). Shoko Igarashi (be) Shoko Igarashi was born in 1991 in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. An accomplished tenor saxophonist, she is also a versatile flautist and plays alto and soprano saxophone fluently. She has already made her mark as both an arranger and a composer. Shoko grew up surrounded by dreamlike landscapes of abundant nature in the snowy countryside of Tsuruoka, a mysterious and surreal region renowned for producing the best quality rice in Japan, where she says, “the water and the air feel the purest," and where mountains and shrines overflow with ancient mysticism. After beginning her musical career in Tokyo, she attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree of music. She then relocated to Brooklyn, New York where she began regularly performing live alongside innumerable talented jazz musicians. In 2018, she moved to Brussels, Belgium and founded the group Maniac Maison with her partner, pianist Casimir Liberski, and guitarist Lucien Fraipont. Since 2018, Shoko has written and compiled a series of well-crafted, colourful electronic songs curating diverse influences such as Sly & the Family Stone, Earth Wind & Fire, Japanese City-Pop, '70s jazz fusion, and the anime film music that she grew up learning to play. Her nimble and seamless assembly of these very different elements into her unique sound is astonishingly natural. In addition to her primary group Maniac Maison, her first official solo Album will be released by Tigersushi Records in May 2022.
Gloria de Oliveira (de) + Shoko Igarashi (be)
Location: Chaussée Saint-Pierre, 210, 1040 Etterbeek
