Saturday, 30 March
Koorenhuis (zaal)

Maurice Louca is one of the most gifted, prolific and adventurous figures on Egypt’s thriving experimental arts scene. A founding member of Lekhfa – with whom he performed at Rewire 2018 – and Dwarfs of East Agouza, the Cairo-born musician and composer is also a celebrated solo artist. With two critically acclaimed albums to his name, in which he uses tape loops and sampling to merge the traditional and contemporary sounds of the both the Middle East and the West, Louca presents his third and most ambitious at Rewire 2019. Entitled ‘Elephantine’, the new album, and by extension performance, is a panoramic odyssey in which Louca leads a six-person ensemble through everything from cosmic free jazz and psychedelic rock to Egyptian shaabi and African and Yemeni folk traditions.