Tashattot x Vaux Hall Summer

Nazanin Yalda is an Iranian performance artist and DJ based in Brussels, who explores music through her fascination with colour and symbiosis. Her sets oscillate between atmospheric, textured storytelling and international club sounds featuring powerful basslines and breakbeat rhythms.

Maya Aghniadis, known as Flugen, is a composer and sound explorer who blends electronic textures with organic soundscapes. Having started out on the drums at a very young age, her musical journey has broadened to incorporate more acoustic elements and has increasingly focused on film scoring and sound storytelling. Shaped by a life divided between Beirut and Athens, her work is imbued with a sense of movement, memory and cultural fusion. Under the name Flugen, she creates atmospheric compositions that oscillate between ambient, jazz and experimental music, often blending field recordings with electroacoustic elements. Her latest album, Penté, reflects an introspective spirit, weaving musical narratives with a minimum of words.

Rubis Ramadan is a singer, musician and actress originally from Beirut who is now based in Paris. She composes and improvises experimental electroacoustic music, taking a raw and vulnerable approach to traditional songs from all corners of the globe. Through songs that spring from the mountains and flow into the rivers, she weaves together dreamlike and raw textures that echo today’s world—a world in the midst of both upheaval and reconstruction, made up of stories that haunt our nights and of us who live in their present. There is something escapist and liberating about letting go. She blends her voice with wind instruments – the Indian Shruti box, analogue synthesisers, distorted hints of kalimba, deep percussion, time-warping effects, an amplified Omnichord and a small hand-cranked music box.

NÂR is a Lebanese multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer based in Beirut. Constantly evolving, she works with a variety of instruments, her voice and various objects she finds. Abrasive and hypnotic, NÂR’s performances are sonic experiences and live improvisations, often guided by spoken texts or short phrases sung in a loop, much like mantras. Her music draws on a wide spectrum of sounds, inspirations and genres, such as Middle Eastern music, North African trance, industrial and electronic music. In 2021, NÂR’s career took a radical turn: she began working with a unique instrument, composed mainly of old clock bells, giving rise to a new dimension in her practice. NÂR regards her performances as “a succession of sacred errors”.

Monstera Occulta is a Brussels-based DJ whose sets blend percussion, electronic textures and resonances drawn from Arab cultures and the diaspora. As a member of the Femmebass collective, she creates a world where rhythmic trance meets the warmth of traditional sounds and the intensity of contemporary club music. Her selections, rooted in SWANA music and extending into global bass, oscillate between organic percussion, hypnotic synths and deconstructed rhythms. She weaves links between memory and the dance floor, exploring soundscapes where the warm and the raw intertwine, inviting a collective and physical experience. As a resident on Bruzz Ice Radio and Radio Campus, and a regular on Kiosk Radio, she shines just as much on air as she does on stage. She recently performed at the Fissa event as part of the Out Loud festival, as well as at the Tashattot, Matinée and Not Your Techno festivals, thereby demonstrating her ability to bridge the energy of the club scene with deep diasporic influences.