Weval
Fear of dancing? Come battle your CHOROPHOBIA with Weval. The Amsterdam duo opens Haarlem Vinyl Festival at Patronaat with their most groove-driven show yet.
It's safe to say that Weval has one of the best live reputations thanks to their layered and thoughtful electronic music. The duo has performed all over the world and now Weval is coming to Patronaat on Haarlem Vinyl Festival's opening night.
Harm Coolen and Merijn Scholte Albers have been making genre-blurring electronic music that fuse analogue warmth with cinematic storytelling since 2013, landing somewhere between introspective electronica, psychedelic pop, and atmospheric dance music.
On their fourth album CHOROPHOBIA, Weval lean into what once held them back: dance music. Harm and Merijn have spent a decade carving out a space outside the club mainstream. But the discovery of the term "chorophobia" - the fear of dancing- prompted a re-evaluation. Realizing they'd always held back from fully embracing dance, they set out to make their most extroverted, groove-driven album to date. It's no surprise, then, that they named the album after it.
CHOROPHOBIA is not a traditional dance record and it's closer to a house party soundtrack than a club set. Inspired by a low-res iPhone photo of a friend DJing with one hand and snacking with the other, the duo found a visual metaphor for their new direction: playful, chaotic, and unpolished in the best way. With higher BPMs and genre-melting moments that span acid, funk, bass, and psych-pop, the result is a liberating, mixtape-like album that challenges the idea of what "dance" even means. CHOROPHOBIA invites listeners to embrace discomfort, let go of overthinking, and find joy in movement, awkward or otherwise.
Come find out what happens when one of the most exciting electronic acts in the Netherlands finally lets loose.
Friday October 2, 20:00
Venue: Patronaat, Haarlem
Support: Ineffekt & Nebula Muse
Tickets (for €28.5) are available here, access is also included in the Haarlem Vinyl Festival Weekend Pass (€95).