Malibu / Joanne Robertson

Joanne Robertson is a musician and painter from Glasgow. Both her painting and her music arise from moments of improvised expression. She regularly collaborates with her friends, most recently with Dean Blunt on Backstage Raver and Sidsel Meineche Hansen on Alien Baby. Joanne Robertson’s songwriting is a highly intuitive and immediate practice, with her tracks always attempting to capture the moment and her emotional state on that particular day, much like diary entries. In September, Blurrr – Joanne’s sixth album – was released on the London-based experimental label AD 93 (Coby Sey, Tracey, Damsel Elysium, Olan Monk, james K, feeo, Moin, among others). Blurrr is permeated by a very strong, pervasive mood – full of loneliness, beauty and depth.

Malibu is a French composer and singer. Her music is strongly influenced by meditative processes – the songs seem like fragments of endless fantasising and combine elements of drone, neoclassical, dance and pop to create a very ethereal sound aesthetic. Muted pianos, woodwinds, dense string sections and pads carry her voice, which moves between whispers, spoken moments and breath sounds.

As part of her NTS radio show United in Flames, Malibu shares curated music with great atmospheric depth with changing guests such as Evian Christ, Casey MQ and Stella Explorer. As a cinematic artist, she also works as a film composer and wrote the music for La Fille Qui Explose (2024), which was shown at Cannes.

Malibu’s dense, otherworldly live presence has already been experienced at festivals such as Atonal in Berlin and C2C in Turin, as well as supporting Oklou’s Choke Enough tour. At the Dampfzentrale, Malibu will present her album Vanities, released in 2025.

Malibu was part of the SHAPE+ roster in 2018.

THY is a Basel-based artist who works with sound installations and sculptures. THY’s sound productions complement their artistic practice – a wild mix of field recordings, poetic texts and voices. THY’s DJ sets focus on the emotional tension between soft and harsh tones, deconstructed and experimental sounds – all subtly blending into one another: slowed-down nostalgic pop songs and a hint of background noise from the television.