- Thursday 3 July
South Korean musician and DJ Bela takes you deep into a universe that is disturbing, strikingly original and beautiful as they present songs from the masterful album Noise and Cries 굉음과 울음, released in 2024.
Here, Bela unfolds a musical world that sounds like no other. The sonic universe unites growls inspired by extreme metal, industrial noise, queer club music and rhythms from the traditional Korean pungmul. Through this otherworldly soundscape, bela invites the audience on a journey into an underworld of death’s shadows and marginalised voices.
Noise and Cries 굉음과 울음 thematically revolves around death, and Bela's vocal experiments manage to tear open a portal into the realm of the dead. From the violent soundscapes, however, also grows a healing experience and a radical hope that death is a path to rebirth in a more inclusive and non-binary world.
Bela is currently based in Berlin and has performed at a number of Europe's leading clubs and venues as well as festivals such as Rewire and Unsound. Noise and Cries 굉음과 울음 is a singular achievement that showcases their ability to unite pain and beauty, Korean folk music and radical futurism in a kind of queer cyborg music. A true artistic force that we look forward to experiencing at Roskilde Festival.
