Kamaal Williams is the Brownswood Recordings affiliate and London jazz scene stalwart “who ma[kes] music that gloriously distill[s] the city’s plurality.” (Pitchfork) He appears at Festsaal Kreuzberg, flanked by a full band. In 2018, the project released The Return, an excellent follow up to former duo Yussef Kamaal’s acclaimed Black Focus.

Uganda’s Nakibembe Xylophone Troupe are one of the few remaining groups that perform on the embaire—an extremely rare and gigantic indigenous wooden xylophone that is simultaneously played by eight musicians. Performers lock into a hypnotic, relentless polyphonic onslaught that transcends time and place, coalescing into one of the most complex and intriguing sonic forms in East Africa.