Sergeant + burça

Sergeant makes music as if they are editing a capricious film – cutting, pasting, and reassembling sounds into a vortex of unexpected twists. The trio – filmmaker/composer Benjamin Cools, searching-singing actor Ferre Marnef, and sonic angel Geraldine Vanspauwen – strikes a fragile balance between the angular sharpness of post-punk, the relentless drive of krautrock, and an unpredictable pop energy that makes your heart beat faster.‍

Their sound is a plunderphonic chaos of broken rhythms and clashing textures: always in motion, never quite in balance. It is as if The Avalanches are throwing a party with pagan whistles, distorted bells, and dubby bass lines. Whistles screech as if trying to sprint away from the beat, and melodies shatter into chaotic joyrides. Imagine Micachu & The Shapes playing hopscotch with Robert Wyatt, or Sonic Youth dissolving in a glass of sparkling water with vodka — bubbly, intoxicating, but in the end mercilessly honest.

Live, Sergeant drives their music to experimental heights, whipping tracks up to a feverish intensity and rearranging them into something even more untamed. The space fills with foolish criticism, a controlled stumble, a sound that keeps running even when it no longer knows where it is going.

Burça

Burça is an Istanbul-born, Amsterdam-based experimental musician and vocalist specializing in creating loud, irritating, and tinnitus-inducing sounds. Some themes she explores in her music include disgust, fear, anxiety, depravity, and all the animalistic feelings we try to hide within our contemporary bodies. She likes to approach these themes through her voice, with which she creates sonic textures, heavy breathing, growling, moaning, grunting, and screaming. Her notable performances include Luksfery Festival 2025 in Gdynia, Poland, Soam London, Vorspiel x Silencio Art Laboratory, Transmediale Berlin, and SOTU NOISE Tanker in the Noord in Amsterdam.

The people at Cinetol have kindly offered a limited amount of free tickets for Subbacultcha members. Please make a reservation by sending an email to mailinglist@subbacultcha.nl with ‘Sergeant’ in the subject line + your name in the email.

Registrations are open until 12.00 PM on weekdays.