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Mini edition of 15 high-quality Typ-II tape cassettes for the nerds and lovers now ready to order via our kashev tapes bandcamp ⚡️🌀🫶

Show Joseph Baan ALL RISE April 29 & 30, May 2 “How to untell a story that cannot be told but must be told.” – M. NourbeSe Philip ALL RISE cross-examines the dramaturgical genealogies between the legal system and the theatre, both technologies whose insistence on intelligibility and narrative coherence renders conflict visible, narratable, and ultimately containable without imparting real ethical responsibility. Content notes: - Loud noise - Flashing lights - Performers will approach you, address you directly, and you will be asked to move - Some live text in English Concept, direction: Joseph Baan
Performance: Joseph Baan, Luc Häfliger, bela, Sam Taskinen
Dramaturgy: Simone Aughterlony, Felipe Ribeiro, Simon Froehling
Music and composition: Luc Häfliger, bela
Scenography: Dominik Dober
Costumes: Marcus Karkhof
Light: Joseph Wegmann
Sound: Susanne Affolter
Text translation: Eliana Kirkcaldy
Production: Romeo Oliveras
Video Documentation: Jumana Issa
 Co-production: Tanzhaus Zürich
Dramaturgical support Tanzhaus Zürich: Simon Froehling Supported by: Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung SIS, Albert Huber-Stiftung

I’m thrilled to share my first solo release with you. What started in 2023 found its form and is manifest. I want to thank to all my dear friends, loved ones and collaborators who supported me and keep supporting me and worked with me up until this moment. My gratitude is eternal. xx “When listening to „Dawn of the Days“, there is a certain foreshadowing of physicality that forms in the sounds Gotgha produces. You can almost feel the bow gnashing over the strings of the zither or the noise walls that rush through, accelerating to the max of overwhelm. This is what pulls you in. The immersion on „Dawn of the Days“ is not an inviting one; it is snatching you, dragging you in to intrude. And suddenly you sit there, hearing all around you this blasting assemblage of orchestrated sounds unfolding into images that are being sharpened and formed while you’re tumbling through. These sounds evolve as an extension of Gotgha’s body and mind; they manage to include the listener as an extension of these audial structures. You wander in them, start to relate, and feel the temperatures, the sentiments, and the surfaces. Inside, approaching sounds try to detach from structures—twisting and squirming, struggling, held in invisible restraints. At some points on the EP, bells emerge as ominous signals, growing heavier, more threatening. At other points, beneath it all, under and inside the noise, there’s a suppressed cry that tries to surface but is held back. These tensions become internalized, manifesting as trembling, resistance, and refusal. It all feels deceptive, unstable, but still precise and controlled. You can feel the reins being pulled; the full power is being held back and pushed into a frame for audial translation.“ Releases April 24th 2026 on @kashev_tapes All songs written, produced, and performed by Gotgha. The voice in “Dark Forest“ is from margaretha jüngling @mar_________jue__ Album art by Tim Häsler @tiohae Mastered by Gaspard Emma Hers @dj_wurm Photography by Marc Jauss @marc_jauss Press Text by Elia Brülhart @opernbauer

One week until premiere! ALL RISE cross-examines the dramaturgical genealogies between the legal system and the theatre, both technologies whose insistence on intelligibility and narrative coherence renders conflict visible, narratable, and ultimately containable without imparting real ethical responsibility. Working with the vector of the trial, a ritual in the legal system whose aim for “justice” warrants its own violences, the work interrogates modalities of sovereignty under law. Juridical demand for legibility and coherence—on performing plausibility in order to be attributed humanity—undercuts the fact that trauma is often incoherent. Deploying the mise-en-scene of the courtroom in relation to that of theatre, ALL RISE performs the trial as a space of waiting in which conviction, coherence, and meaning-making are perpetually delayed. The trial becomes a no-show; the roles of witness, judge, and advocate shared amongst both audience and performers. We will be raising funds to support mutual aid in Lebanon and Palestine, bring cash. 📅 29 + 30 April, May 2 📍 Tanzhaus Zürich Concept, direction: Joseph Baan
Performance: Joseph Baan, Luc Häfliger, bela, Sam Taskinen
Dramaturgy: Simone Aughterlony, Felipe Ribeiro
Music and composition: Luc Häfliger, bela
Scenography: Dominik Dober
Costumes: Marcus Karkhof
Light: Joseph Wegmann
Production: Romeo Oliveras
Co-production: Tanzhaus Zürich
Dramaturgical Support Tanzhaus Zürich: Simon Froehling
Photography: Binta Kopp Video: Jumana Issa

Dawn of Days EP Releases February 24th, 2026 on @kashev_tapes Graphic Design: Tim Häsler @tiohae Mastering: Gaspard Emma Hers @dj_wurm Press Text: Elia Brülhart @opernbauer Music: Gotgha

Listening event for upcoming releases 🏍️ bela - Korean Love Sonnets Gotgha - Dawn of Days Releasing 24.04.2026 Lids of Closed Eyes: A special listening night is here. The performers of ALL RISE, premiering at Tanzhaus on the 29th of April, musicians bela and Gotgha bring a 2-hour listening session of feedback, guttural voice, and noise compositions. Accompanying a short live noise performance from bela and Gotgha, the event continues to celebrate the release of Korean Love Sonnets (2026, Subtext Recordings) and Dawn of Days (2026, Kashev Tapes). The duality of noise is in question – how does loud noise both challenge and comfort at the same time? A dark space is provided. Under the presence of harsh rattles and resonances, different sensory impressions enter in place of the visual. Tanzhaus Zürich, Bühne 1 24.04.2026 Friday 19:00 Pay as much as you want First-come first-serve entrance Gotgha’s EP Dawn of Days will be available in cassette tape format. All sales go to people in Lebanon and Palestine.

In just over a month we are premiering our new piece, ALL RISE, at Tanzhaus Zürich. It’s been a while in the making & I couldn’t be more grateful for this brilliant team of people 🖤 y’all make magic happen. Tomorrow we’ll have a process sharing at 6pm, but more than anything plz join us between April 29th - May 2nd for the work’s final form ⏳⚖️📃 ALL RISE asks: “How to untell a story that cannot be told but must be told.” Working with the vector of the trial, a ritual in the legal system whose aim for “justice” warrants its own violences, the work interrogates modalities of sovereignty under law. Juridical insistence on legibility and coherence—on performing plausibility to be attributed humanity—undercuts the fact that trauma is often incoherent. Deploying the mise-en-scene of the courtroom in relation to that of theatre, ALL RISE performs the trial as a space of waiting in which conviction, coherence, and sense-making are perpetually delayed. The trial becomes a no-show; the roles of witness, judge, and advocate shared amongst both audience and performers. Concept, direction: Joseph Baan
Performance: Joseph Baan, Luc Häfliger, bela, Sam Taskinen
Dramaturgy: Simone Aughterlony, Felipe Ribeiro
Music and composition: Luc Häfliger, bela
Scenography: Dominik Dober
Costumes: Marcus Karkhof
Light: Joseph Wegmann
Production: Romeo Oliveras Co-production: Tanzhaus Zürich
Dramaturgical Support Tanzhaus Zürich: Simon Froehling
Critical Friend Tanzhaus Zürich: Manuel Gerst Photography: Binta Kopp

VERSA/FACE fromheretillnow presents Versa/Face, marking the renewed collaboration between Zurich-based musicians Luc Häfliger (Gotgha) and Piero Mirio Scherer. Their creative exchange first took shape during several intense years in Zurich’s underground scene. After a period of individual work, the two artists reunite with a release that brings their musical dialogue back into focus, alongside the concert format Doxa Shroti. The foundation of this project was set on a tour in Indonesia and Taiwan. A journey during which a fusion of perspectives emerged, where practices, actions, and everyday decisions met, and where, for brief moments, their minds melted together. Some of that remains. Afterwards, the artists drifted apart for a bit, still close, yet working on their own sounds. However, these thoughts and moments stuck and shaped this release. In this way, the individual tracks find each other and merge the project into a single whole. Versa/Face, ultimately, is a collaborative release of exploration, aleatorically steered intuition, and perception. Getting pulled along by their sounds, Mirio and Gotgha are digging forward, working their way ahead, trying things, taking risks, thinking, pondering, feeling their way forward. Music: Gotgha / Piero Mirio Scherer @gotgha_geist / @losdelrodos Graphic Design: Marc Jauss @marc_jauss Artwork (Inlay): Tristan Amor Rabit @tarabit_ Mastering: Gaspard Emma Hers @dj_wurm Text contributions: Tim Häsler @tiohae Elia Brülhart @opernbauer Vocals in Miasma: Gabrielle Amidala @gabrielle_internalobject Reconsiliation: Manolo Müller @mmmanolete The album release will take place on Thursday, December 4, at 7:30 pm at bbar, Uetlibergstrasse 65, 8045 Zürich, Entrance A, 2nd floor. The event will feature an album listening session accompanied by a live concert by Chia-Chun Xu. @xu_jared Order: 🔗 in bio Read: fromheretillnow.com #versaface #fromheretillnow #

VERSA/FACE Releases December 4, 2025 Text Contribution: Tim Häsler @tiohae Artwork (Inlay): Tristan Amor Rabit @tarabit_ Graphic Design: Marc Jauss @marc_jauss Mastering: Gaspard Emma Hers @dj_wurm Music: Gotgha / Piero Mirio Scherer @gotgha_geist / @losdelrodos Press Text: Elia Brülhart @opernbauer The album release will take place on Thursday, December 4, at 7:30 pm at bbar, Uetlibergstrasse 65, 8045 Zürich, Entrance A, 2nd floor. The event will feature an album listening session accompanied by a live concert by Chia-Chun Xu. @xu_jared Read: fromheretillnow.com #versaface #fromheretillnow

sharing some impressions of the slowly materialising Out of Joint, a new piece that I’m thrilled to be working on with total babes @gotgha_geist and @6_e_l_a . these images were taken during a work-in-progress show at UPON Live Art Festival in Chengdu back in October, here to announce that the three of us will be performing another version of this work @macromuseoroma on December 19th for @istitutosvizzero ’s “Sol Invictus”. Come all! Out of Joint will premiere in its final form @tanzhauszuerich on April 30th next year. Grateful for everyone who has accompanied and supported the work so far (you know who you are!), & not in the least much love to the organisers of UPON & everyone who came out, y’all are the real thing. pics by @up_on_paa

05.12 Versa/Face Split-EP Release, TBA, Zurich @losdelrodos @fromheretillnow 12.12 Concert Südpol, Lucerne @endlessbazaar 19.12 Performance w/ @josephbaan and @bela initiated and directed by Joseph Baan, Macro Contemporary ART , Rome

incredible grateful for all the friends and people who made my China and Hongkong tour possible: @trigger_shanghai @up_on_paa @performance_art_furnace_hk @blindcat_music @josephbaan and also warm thanks for the financial support of: @prohelvetia and @stadtzh