SYNAPSE

Synapse diffuses upon @bossanovacivicclub for our senary exploration of club kinetics on April 22nd 🧬 Mad scientists for the evening include Akanbi [@frikaan_time ], Madre Guía [@madre_guia ], KATA [@lakatafelix ] and our resident’s, LTE b2b Jalpari [@1ateshia b2b @princess.jalpari ] Inspired by ephemeral encounters that are essential to our becoming and unbecoming, this night is dedicated to moments of dissolution that bring us unity in the sea that is the club 🌊 April 22nd, @bossanovacivicclub , free all night ♾️ Tabling by @crownheightsbitesback Flyer by @maracuya.jugosa

Artist Biosketch: Akanbi 🧬 Wednesday April 22nd @bossanovacivicclub 10pm - 4am Free all night Akanbi is a fountain of energy whose passion and enthusiasm for music & humanity is undiluted and unmatched. Raised in Lagos, Nigeria, with limited access to the internet but a huge thirst for new music, Akanbi moved to NYC in 2010 and immersed himself head on into every corner of dance music, as a serious dancer and, eventually, a DJ & rave activator. As a DJ he possesses an amazing level of restraint that balances his ball-of-fire spirit. He brings a focused intention to the community as an organizer, tapping into the spiritual frequencies that go beyond the surface. In 2014, he started New York City’s GROOVY GROOVY party - a judgment-free atmosphere for wild dance floors, spiritual, mental & physical rejuvenation, radical politics, and a dose of undeniably rocking talent. Akanbi has made an impression with visionary sets across the globe at select spaces like Guggenheim Museum, Sustain Release, Nowadays, Dekmantel, Horst, OIL Club Shanghai, WWW Tokyo, Berghain/Panorama Bar, Corsica Studios, Primavera Sound Barcelona et al.

Artist Biosketch: KATA 🧬 Wednesday April 22nd @bossanovacivicclub 10pm - 4am Free all night KATA is a Jersey born and raised DJ. She attributes most of her inspiration to her formative years in a Dominican household where family gatherings, dance, and music were the core guiding principles. KATA calls herself a child of the world, often mixing cultures, sounds, and ideas to fuel her natural need for play and curiosity. As a multi disciplined artist, her practice as a DJ is a form of integration. It embodies remembering, honoring, and exploring our whole existence through dance.

Artist Biosketch: Madre Guía 🧬 Wednesday April 22nd @bossanovacivicclub 10pm - 4am Free all night Madre Guía is a Bronx-based multidisciplinary artist weaving together queer Afro-Caribbean diasporic experiences through DJing, electronic music production, and improvisational performance. She uses movement to decode ancestral wisdom stored in the body and experiments with electronic music to explore polyrhythmic potentialities for connection and healing. 📸 @wahala.wav

Artist Biosketch: SEXINCHURCH 🧬 Tuesday January 6th @bossanovacivicclub 10pm - 4am Free all night Geneva Love Frazier invites you to worship with SEXINCHURCH. SEXINCHURCH compels you to shed, remember, and go forward with renewed sense. A Genre Bender. A World Builder. Time Distorter. You are now entering the temple, let’s have SEXINCHURCH.

Artist Biosketch: yoniyachtclub 🧬 Tuesday January 6th @bossanovacivicclub 10pm - 4am Free all night @yoniyachtclub (they/m) brings a selection and curation driven by desire to play loud sounds that remind us of something bigger and deeper. Hailing from Atlanta, they are known across southern dance floors for bold blends, obsessing over booming drums, and occasionally incorporating live instrumentation, outside of the CDJ. Passionate about us reclaiming technological agency, their process is rooted in techodisobediance and resisting algorithmic capture. Currently, Meghna is focused on creating instruments, synths, and speakers that destruct and build worlds that we can revel in. it’s their first time playing at bossa ~ and they’re excited ~😈

Synapse diffuses upon @bossanovacivicclub for our quinary exploration of club kinetics on January 6th 🧬 Mad scientists for the evening include SEXINCHURCH [@sexinchurch ], yoniyachtclub [@yoniyachtclub ], Matük [@ma.tuk ] and our resident’s, LTE b2b Jalpari [@1ateshia b2b @princess.jalpari ] Inspired by ephemeral encounters that are essential to our becoming and unbecoming, this night is dedicated to moments of dissolution that bring us unity in the sea that is the club 🌊 January 6th, @bossanovacivicclub , free all night ♾️ Flyer by @maracuya.jugosa

We’d like to thank everyone that participated in our exploratory studies this year 🧫 Thank you to the mad scientists for their sonic potions, to friends and dancers for supporting our hypotheses, and to staff at the laboratories we’ve brought our lens to @bossanovacivicclub @moodringnyc @jupiter_disco It takes an ecosystem to synthesize connectivity, and we couldn’t be more grateful for everyone that made this year’s Synapse possible 🧬 That being said, our next experiment is just around the corner… official announcement soon. Until then, keep it curious 💭 Flyer art: @maracuya.jugosa

Artist Biosketch: Jalpari b2b LTE 🧬 Monday August 25th @bossanovacivicclub 10pm - 4am Free all night Jalpari is a NC-born Indian-American musician based in Brooklyn, NY. While their artistic practice was sourced by the euphoric feeling of collective acoustic sound (orchestra), their artistry is currently sustained by the restorative nature of existing inside amplified sound. They were introduced to the transformative force of a proper sound system on dance floors in Hong Kong and Copenhagen, and moving to Brooklyn has opened their eyes to the deconstructive potential of a DJ set. Brooklyn’s rave ecosystem is teaching them that the DJ-2-Dancefloor energy circuit can recreate ancient forms of socializing that (nowadays) tend to only exist in the dark. Jalpari’s sets aim to activate this sacred space to give you something real you can blend into your journey when the lights turn on. LTE synthesizes entropic sonic experiences by generating blends that coalesce cultures with nature and a genre-bending ethos. Whether it’s seamlessly mixing celestial electro, perky bass club, or hypnotic techno, LTE leaves minds enthralled by the left fielded nature of their DJ style. LTE creates a sacred, yet, pulsating atmosphere through their ceaseless sound evolution which resonates with the unapologetic ravers and the whimsical insurgents who populate her dance floors. pc: @jpgsbyjx

Artist Biosketch: chuki 🧬 Monday August 25th @bossanovacivicclub 10pm - 4am Free all night chuki lives on the gradient between skittering deconstructed club, highly conceptualized art music and full-on bangers. Why choose one when you can have it all? Albums like “let all your biometric phlegm out” oscillate between straight-to-the-jugular percussive directness and twisted metal car crash sonics. The expansiveness is quintessentially diasporic and NY at the same time - their most fucked up moments sound like the M train going overhead during the carnival. FKA lawd knows, a member of SCRAAATCH and a former affiliate of the essential NON Worldwide, chuki has been a vital presence in the east coast club underground for years. They have delivered dynamic sets for Dripping (for the Groovy Groovy platform), Shock Value, Fame Kills, Hyperdub among other nights for open ended club sonics. pc: @koljaaaaa__

Artist Biosketch: Zara Dekho 🧬 Monday August 25th @bossanovacivicclub 10pm - 4am Free all night Raised in Karachi and now based in Brooklyn, Zara Dekho moves between worlds, carrying their sounds with her. She co-runs Rare Frequency Transmissions, an event series and record label that serves as a pulse in the city’s underground, and co-founded Tarka Project, where music, food, and performance intertwine to showcase New York’s diasporas. A summer resident at Jupiter Disco, her sets traverse house, techno, bass, electro and beyond, infused with the textures of her Pakistani roots. Each set is a journey, impacted by time, space and collective energy.

Artist Biosketch: Tracey G 🧬 Monday August 25th @bossanovacivicclub 10pm - 4am Free all night Tracey G, intentionally crafts his set based on his mood and ever changing environment. This Bronx born artist pays homage to those who came before him. Dipping into Disco, Techno and everything in-between and outside the realms to reflect what matters most to him, connection on the Dancefloor.