Taxi Salon: Evicshen + Dis Fig feat. Spooky J + Elvin Brandhi + Rumpeln + Jena Jang

In the organizer's words:

The upcoming Taxi Salon channels the dark extremes of warped beauty. The performances challenge the intimate sphere in a brutal yet fragile way. Five international artists and groups will be presented across two floors in a deafening concoction. Cab Salon is dedicated to contemporary music that moves between experimental and leftfield. The program seeks to confront commodified listening culture through preparations, détournements and destructions. The uncompromising concert series has been organized by Import Export since 2017.

Evicshen (San Francisco)
Evicshen is an experimental music performer and sound artist from San Francisco. Though analog synthesizers are the backbone of Shen's music, while performing live, she plays self-made electronics, invented instruments, and even acoustic objects like a bull whip. Shen is a markedly mobile performer that muddles the boundaries between performer and audience, stage and floor. Her sets tend to be site-specific, in direct response to the physical and acoustic qualities of the space in which she performs. Her live show vacillates between moments of restraint and swells of frenetic and confrontational movement. A tightrope walk between control and chance, the whiff of danger is never far during Shen's performances. Her sound is dynamic with a sensitivity to texture and structure throughout.

Dis Fig feat. Spooky J (Berlin / Amsterdam)
The producer, DJ, and vocalist Dis Fig has moved from the dancefloor to annihilating spectacle, crafting cinematic sonic expressions with weighty emotional intensity. As an artist who has long resisted simple categorization, she cut her teeth operating in New York City's DIY and experimental club scenes, refining her vast pool of influences into a cathartic distillate that oozes between vulnerable beauty and retching chaos. She has collaborated with bassmaster The Bug and most recently with doom-shriekers The Body. Dis Fig will present a new collaboration with Nihiloxica drummer Spooky J. With roots in Amsterdam's vibrant improv scene, he evolved his sound by merging live effects manipulation and drum triggers to craft intense, doom-laden dance soundscapes. His signature style is a fierce blend of rhythm and experimentation, designed to ignite sweat-drenched dance floors.

Elvin Brandhi (Bridgend)
Elvin Brandhi is an improvising lyricist, producer and sound artist from Bridgend, Wales, who builds aberrant beats from field recordings, tape, vinyl, instrument and voice. Using sound and voice as an expansive language transgressing intrinsic systemics and inherited syntactical etiquettes, her live shows are unyielding bursts of erupting animation where her caustic stream of consciousness cavorts with restless, glitched out heaviness. Her creative momentum comprises a range of collaborations and an endless nomadism.

Jena Jang (Prague)
Jena Jang is a South Korean audiovisual artist based in Prague, Czechia, actively working across Europe and Asia. Her work focuses on trauma healing through sound, using elements such as harsh noise, power electronics, drone, chanting, and intense screaming for emotional release. Their music is based on hand-built Tupperware synths, DIY noise circuits, amplified objects, and distorted through 80s-90s vintage effect pedals. Inspired by ancient rituals, healing music is central to their ongoing PhD project, "Contemporary Art of Healing," which explores how live performance can address trauma and seek alternative methods of fundamental healing.

Rumpeln (Munich)
Rumpeln relies on the interoperability of electronic sounds, bodies and videos, all exposed to the same excessive strategy, always balancing between brutality and awkwardness - persistent, unforgiving, raging, aggressive, but always cathartic.