Fidju Kitxora
"Sound that turns the body upside down, makes the body leap and the mind capsize!"
An all-pervading wave, an electro-percussive surge that catapults you into space. Their sound is a trance, a surge of energy that blends the accordion of Lusophone traditions with electronic pulses, as if roots and future were embracing in the same breath. No artifice, no racy image: it's the sound that picks you up, that overturns you, that makes your body leap and your spirit capsize. And on stage, a performer accompanies the journey, adding a visual dimension that opens doors to other worlds. A total experience, a sensory journey that leaves nothing untouched.
PROG IS SOMETIMES JUST A PHIL...
Where and when did you first hear them?
Mid-September, while exploring the roaster at Soyouz, the tour operator in Annecy. The Line-up was already well advanced, but this sound grabbed me and pulled me out of my reality. Not a photo, not a video, not a face: just the sound, raw, irresistible. From the very first listen. Their music blew me away, to the point of jumping up and down in my living room. An electro-percussive trance, crossed by the accordion, that made me want to program them without delay.
Their music in 3 words, or more...?
Surge. Emotional. Dreamlike. Their music arrives like an irresistible, all-pervading wave. It goes straight to the gut, bringing tears or smiles, a fragile yet powerful intensity. At last, because each track is an inner journey, a suspended voyage between light and shadow.
If this were the soundtrack to a daydream, what would it sound like?
We're in the backstreets of Lisbon at dusk, looking for an electro festival that might be hiding in plain sight. The crowd jumps up and down in waves of energy. Bass lines cut through the space, slamming like lightning. The music becomes enveloping, grabbing you by the gut, pulling out buried emotions. You travel between the happiest shores and the darkest lands, like one last piece of music before you leave.
Any anecdotes about Line-up 's career?
The crazy thing is that I discovered them just as the Line-up seemed to have been completed. And yet, it was impossible to miss them. Programming them seemed like a necessity. An encounter that happened by chance, but which turned into a certainty: they had to be there to offer the public this multi-dimensional journey, and who knows what else...