Jam Session
Migrantpolitan
For years, stars from different musical cultures have been meeting at MIGRANTPOLITAN for a jam session: open stage for jamming with your own instrument, your host: Anas Aboura!
The Migrantpolitan on the Kampnagel site is an activity space for, by and/or with locals and the new citizens (migrants) and a space in which the social distinction of »refugees« and »locals« is erased. Itʼs a laboratory for development and creation, a meeting room where culture and art meets the reality of life. There, a new way of collaborating, sharing and co-living is tested and participants jointly exchange cosmopolitan visions. The self-empowerment platform produces solidarity practices, and presents migrant perspectives in a transcultural living room for all. This constellation of people and beliefs has created emancipatory concepts with impacts far beyond Kampnagel.
IZRA-EL
"Where the river meets the ocean, no water is a stranger."
There are artists who perform, and then there are those who shift the
atmosphere of every room they enter. IZRA-EL is the latter — a poet,
musician, and choreographer born from the rich, rhythmic soil of
Nigeria, where the elders say "the drum speaks before the mouth
opens." He has spent a lifetime listening to that drum and translating
its language for the world.
His sound refuses to sit in any
single box. Growing up surrounded by Afrobeat, Highlife, Fuji, and
ancient chants, then traveling far and collaborating deeply with
musicians across cultures and continents, IZRA-EL shaped a voice that is
World Music in its truest sense — not a genre label, but a lived
experience. His songs and poetry move fearlessly through politics, love,
healing, identity, and spiritual reckoning. As the proverb reminds us, "The axe forgets, but the tree remembers." IZRA-EL is both — the memory
and the mending.
He is a fierce believer in collaboration, in the
sacred alchemy that happens when musicians sit together and let their
instruments have an honest conversation. "One tree does not make a
forest." His band are not a backing group — they are co-creators, fellow
travelers in a collective ritual of sound and healing.
Whether
before twenty souls or twenty thousand, the mission remains the same —
to heal, to provoke, to connect, and to remind every listener that music
has always been the oldest medicine known to humanity.
IZRA-EL carries Nigeria in his bones and the whole world in his voice. Come. Listen. Feel.
