THE COLLECTIVE

Tashattot (Arabic for dispersion) is an art collective based in Belgium dedicated to supporting visual artists, musicians, film makers and cultural practitioners at large, originally from the SWANA region and currently “dispersed” in Europe. The collective aims at creating opportunities and collaborations for these expatriate artists.


Through residencies, exhibitions, concerts, workshops, and public discussions, Tashattot supports artists in continuing their practices and connecting with local and international scenes.


Tashattot is a work in progress with a fluid and evolving set of actions. It currently is and will always remain open to new ideas and experiences; continuously building on lessons learned and with practice. The collective strongly believes in the efficiency of open discussions, as the only way to grow and better address SWANA expat artists needs and aspirations, it therefore remains open to reviews, critiques, evaluations or any opinions related to its mechanisms.



Contact us:
contact@tashattot.com

VauxHall
04.07
Rue de la Loi 5, 1000 BXL

Doors Open: 18:00
Doors Close: 23:00

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Tashattot x VauxHall Summer


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Join us for the first Tashattot x Vauxhall Summer collaboration this July!

Tashattot Collective brings together live acts Flugen, Rubis Ramadan, and NÂR, alongside DJs Nazanin Yalda and Monstera Occulta, for a night at Vaux Hall Summer on July 4. The program traverses different corners of experimental music, from field recordings and electro-acoustic textures to time-bending rhythms, spoken word, and traditional chants.

PROGRAM
Nazanin Yalda
Maya Aghniadis (Flugen)
Rubis Ramadan
NÂR
Monstera Occulta


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Poster by Rayan Khalil



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ARTISTS





NAZANIN YALDA

Nazanin Yalda is an Iranian live artist and DJ based in Brussels, exploring music through a fascination with color and symbiosis. Her sets move between ambient, textural storytelling and bass-heavy, break-driven global club sounds.


FLUGEN



Photo by Queer Falafel

Maya Aghniadis, known as Flugen, is a composer, and sound explorer blending electronic textures with organic soundscapes. Rooted in drumming from an early age, her musical journey expanded to include more acoustic elements and a deepening focus on film scoring and sonic storytelling. Shaped by life between Beirut and Athens, her work carries a sense of movement, memory, and cultural fusion. Under the name Flugen, she creates atmospheric compositions that drift between ambient, jazz, and experimental realms. Often blending field recordings and electro-acoustic elements. Her latest release, Penté, reflects an introspective spirit, weaving musical narratives with minimal words.



RUBIS RAMADAN


Photo by Sonja Scharff

Rubis Ramadan is a singer/musician/actress from Beirut based in Paris. She composes and improvises electroacoustic experimental music, with a raw and vulnerable sonic approach to traditional chants of different corners of the world. With songs that spring from the mountains and flow into the rivers, she assembles oniric and brutal textures that resonate with today's breaking and mending world, of stories that live in our nights and us in their present. There is something of escape and liberation through letting go. She blends her voice with wind instrument - the Indian Shruti box, analog synthesizers, distorted Kalimba winks, profound drums, time-bending effects, an amplified Omnichord and a small hand-cranked music box.


NÂR


Photo by Daria Savytska

NÂR is a Lebanese multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer based in Beirut. In a constant metamorphosis, she works with various instruments, her voice and different objects she finds. Abrasive, hypnotic, NÂR’s performances are sonic experiments and live improvisations, often led by spoken word or short sentences singed on repeat like mantras. Her music takes its roots in a very large spectrum of sounds, inspiration or genre such as middle eastern music, north African trance, industrial and electronic music. In 2021, NÂR’s journey took a radical turn, working on a unique instrument essentially composed of old clock bells giving birth to a new dimension in her practice. NÂR sees her performances as “a succession of sacred mistakes”.


MONSTERA OCCULTA


Photo by Pascal.e Vermeulen

Monstera Occulta is a Brussels-based DJ whose sets fuse percussion, electronic textures, and resonances from Arab cultures and the diaspora. A member of the Femmebass collective, she crafts a universe where rhythmic trance meets the warmth of traditional sounds and the tension of contemporary club productions. Her selections, rooted in SWANA music and expanded toward global bass, flow between organic percussion, hypnotic synths, and deconstructed rhythms. She weaves connections between memory and the dancefloor, exploring sonic landscapes where the warm and the raw intertwine, inviting a collective and physical experience. As a resident on Bruzz Ice Radio, Radio Campus and a regular at Kiosk Radio, she shines both on air and on stage. She has recently performed at the Fissa event during the Out Loud Festival, as well as at Tashattot, Matinée, and Not Your Techno, affirming her ability to bridge club energy with deep diasporic influences.




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This project is made possible with the joint efforts of VauxHall, Brussels Major Events and Tashattot Collective.