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Film & Documentary:

2026 - NO MAN'S AIR - GERCO DE RUIJTER & PETER DELPEUT
2023 - ARTEMIS - MARTIJN VELDHOEN
2021 - DESCENDING THE MOUNTAIN - MAARTJE NEVEJAN
2021 - LITTLE OX - RAF WATHION & PATRICK VANDE BROECK
2020 - KEIN GELOEL - DAVID KLEIJWEGT
2019 - HELDEN VAN HET MAXIMA - PAUL RIGTER
2018 - THE THIRSTY CITY CIUDAD MEXICO - ALEXANDER OEY
2018 - WAR CHILD KILI CHALLENGE: BEYOND MOUNTAINS - GABOR DEAK
2017 - PIETER ENGELS / HOLLANDSE MEESTERS - DAVID KLEIJWEGT
2017 - PORTRET IN BRONS - MAAIKE ENGELS
2015 - MEET ME IN VENICE  (with BEPPE COSTA) - EDDY TERSTALL
2014 - TIME AND PLACE, A TALK WITH MY MOM - MARTIJN VELDHOEN
2014 - SPEECHES - DAVID KLEIJWEGT
2013 - DE TECHMENS - BREGTJE VAN DER HAAK
2013 - LAST WORDS - KOERT DAVIDSE
2012 - CHINA ; VAN CARTIER NAAR CONFUCIUS - MARIJE MEERMAN
2011 - ONE FALSE MOVE - CLARA VAN GOOL & RIA MARKS
2011 - EEN AANZIENLIJKE RESERVE AAN BESCHAVING - ROB SCHRÖDER
2009 - GRAND PARIS - BREGTJE VAN DER HAAK
2009 - I AM GURGAON - MARIJE MEERMAN
2008 - IN REAL LIFE - (with ERIC VLOEIMANS) ROBERT JAN WESTDIJK
2007 - ONZE JONGENS - BREGTJE VAN DER HAAK
2007 - SATELLITE QUEENS - BREGTJE VAN DER HAAK
2007 - HET APPELMOESMEISJE - MARIJE MEERMAN
2007 - MARTHA VONK GAAT NAAR ISTANBUL - HESTER OVERMARS
2006 - VLUCHT VAN DE VALK - CLAUDIA HAURI
2005 - SAMUAL - TAMI RAVID
2005 - STROOM - JORD DEN HOLLANDER
2004 - MAMA, PLEASE CALL ME - MARIJE MEERMAN
2004 - ST PETERSBURG, PLACES AND PAINTINGS - BEN VAN LIESHOUT
2004 - NEVER LET GO - CLAUDIA HAURI
1987 - CRAW AND CRAW (with WOUTER VELDHUIS) - BOB RUIJZENDAAL

Video:

2025 - HOE WEET JE WAT JE WEET - STEVEN ELBERS
2021 - HOME - CONNY JANSSEN DANST / DAVIDE BELLOTTA
2021 - FRAMED - CONNY JANSSEN DANST / DAVIDE BELLOTTA
2019 - A SENSE OF PLACE - NAN WANG
2019 - BREAKING POINT-  NAN WANG
2019 - PAREIDOLIA - NAN WANG
2018 - SEINPOSTDUIN [52° 6'32.29"N / 4°16'34.73"O] - GERCO DE RUIJTER
2017 - SAND WANDERER - ERIC GIESSMANN
2017 - DISSOLVE - GERCO DE RUIJTER
2016 - RINGDIJK / DIKE RING - GERCO DE RUIJTER
2016 - GRID CORRECTIONS - GERCO DE RUIJTER
2014 - PLAYGROUND - GERCO DE RUIJTER
2013 - CROWDS (BIG DATA POETRY) - GEERT MUL
2013 - CROPS - GERCO DE RUIJTER
2013 - TERRA INCOGNITA - GERCO DE RUIJTER
2012 - EYES OF THE WITNESS - GEERT MUL
2011 - LETTING GO - GERCO DE RUIJTER
2010 - VOCAL VOID - GEERT MUL
2010 - COLLAPSUS - TOMMY PALLOTTA
2010 - JACKSON POLLOCK'S ROAD TRIP - GERCO DE RUIJTER
2009 - DUIZEL - MAAIKE ENGELS
2008 - A MOODY GUY'S AUDIBLE DREAM - GEERT MUL
2008 - VOICE PRINT - OLGA MINK
2008 - URBAN RHYTMICS - OLGA MINK
2008 - URBAN NATURE (with ERIC VLOEIMANS) - OLGA MINK
2007 - TRANSMIT / EFFENAAR LIVE - OLGA MINK
2005 - MATCH THE MOVIE - GEERT MUL
2004 - LOW PULSE & HIGH NOIZ - OLGA MINK & IRENA MIHALINEC
2003 - STRAIGHT 18 (RED CROSS) - MAAIKE ENGELS
1984 - CALLISTO - DAVID GARCIA & ANNIE WRIGHT
1984 - sound for a video installation (Luminous Image exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, A'dam) by MICHEL CARDENA


Theater:

michel banabila / theaterencyclopedie

 

Michel Banabila, Rotterdam 2025 (photo by Lucia)- 'Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International'
Banabila live @ Perifest, Deventer 2019 (photo by Jeroen Helle) - 'Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International'
Banabila live at Re:source, Krakow 2013 (photo by Ana Spysz) - 'Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International'

'Travelog' by Banabila & Machinefabriek:

"a Glitchdroneworldbeat collaboration to die for"


Peter Hollo - Utility Fog / FBI RADIO

"Nuits Sans Nuit: les bruits de la nuit s’en retrouvent amplifiés et les échos du monde environnant résonnent jusqu’à nous."

Vincent Arquillière - POP NEWS

“A melange of lush harmonics and soft but heavy broken beats, tropical synth work and warped electro-acoustic sounds that manage to feel hugely organic, ancient and tribal and synthetic and futuristic all at once.”

JUNO

"Banabila's music is submerged in layers of psychedelic waveform wobble and stuttering a-rhythmic percussion. 'Zoosemiotics' is a particular zoner, and plays rubbery wind tones through mouthy electrical processes, letting an inebriated electronic rhythm and dank vibraphone hits create a Badalamenti-esque backdrop." 

BOOMKAT

"One thing I like about Michel’s work is that it’s not afraid to be emotional at times… very warm. There’s impressive instrumentation and very good mixing"

Dr. Chris Dooks - IRREGULAR CRATES.

"Pieces like 'Little Star' showcase an incredibly cinematic and homely essence. It's somewhere between ambient folk and a dazzling Balearic beach soundtrack, as slow textures wash over you like a tide."

Tom Babbington-Fowles - RECORD REPORT

 

"Już nie po raz pierwszy Michel udowadnia nam majstersztyk w tworzeniu pierwotnych pasaży łączących egzotykę / alchemię dźwięku z dalekich regionów naszego globu z przeszłością. "

ANXIOUS MUSICK MAGAZINE

“Banabila has created a backing track for everyday life. It is moody and low and it hardly ever fails to satisfy.”

Michael J. Ryan - BOSTON HERALD

"The sounds he makes are spectacularly gorgeous and immaculately crafted"

Jamie - NORMAN RECORDS

"On VoizNoiz tender beats, oddball samples, live instrumentation and vocal snippets weave together to make a warming abstract picture, one of those ones that looks good whichever way you hang it."

WAX MAGAZINE

“Banabila merges aspects of sound design and collaged samples with Bastien's Don Cherry-esque improvisations into a true fusion of the ambient and glitchy.”

Neil Kulkarni - THE WIRE

“De abstractie en de menselijke expressie tillen elkaar naar een hoger niveau. Een geslaagde combinatie van evocatieve soundscapes en sterke improvisatie is vrij zeldzaam. De Rotterdamse geluidskunstenaar Banabila en Turks-Nederlandse rietblazer Erker komen op 'Route Planner' soms dicht in de buurt.”

Frank van Herk, VOLKSKRANT

“Banabila is a musician working across a range of genres. 'Music for viola and electronics II' with Oene van Geel is an expansive, stylistically omnivorous affair, while 'Error Log' with Machinefabriek is altogether more focused. The influence of acousmatic approaches to composition makes its presence felt on both albums.”

Nathan Thomas - FLUID RADIO

“He uses sounds to create 'words' of sound that speak in the language in which we hear. Creepy, loungy, jazzy, sexy, mysterious, fun, and artsy - learn a new language with Banabila, the language of sound”

Vanessa Bormann - INK19

“Banabila creates something genuinely strange and dreamlike. But it's also immediately appealing and deeply chill. Frankly, an excessive abundance of unearthly wonders.”

AUDIOPILE Vancouver

“Banabila cycles through formless electronic bliss, lengthy passages of radio-transmission static or dusty piano loops and upbeat electro-folk-song grooves”

Matt Korvette - YELLOW GREEN RED

"Michel Banabila blinkt uit in het compileren van geluidsdecors / stadsgeluiden, ondefinieerbare radiostatische kraakjes, gespreksflarden, gebubbel en geratel vormen de ingredienten voor een stijlvol, bijna filmisch klankuniversum."

Edo Dijksterhuis - NRC

"Michel Banabila ist ein Zeitenwanderer. Er braucht Musik, Musik braucht ihn."

Andreas Cevatli - GROOVE.DE

“He is a man of many genres, or perhaps more correctly, he is trans-genre, for there seems to be no particular base from which he prefers to work. He just composes. And collaborates eagerly, to the listener´s delight.”

Stephen Fruitman - SONOMU.NET

"A wide orchestral palette and some absolutely top-notch production, with a beautiful sense of space and an ability to shift subtly between warm and cold atmospheres" 

Stuart Bruce - CHAIN D.L.K

"Banabila  da oltre trent’anni pubblica con regolarità lavori molto interessanti, eclettici e liberi da qualsiasi classificazione da solista o con l’aiuto di collaboratori."

 Marco Calloni - BLOGFOOLK

 

“There's a deeply meditative feel to much of the music here, making 'Travelog' one of the most cohesive yet hard to categorise headphone soundtracks I've heard for a while.”

Chris Downton - CYCLIC DEFROST

“Banabila seems to have tuned a radio station to the global frequency of the Earth.”

Freddie Hudson - REACH. SOUND

“The man has a consistent, high-quality music catalogue, and if the name Banabila is new to you; well worth investigating”

FdW - VITAL WEEKLY

"The Pork folks discovered Banabila with 'Mono/Metro,' a holler-sampling-and-contorting fragment of genius that Moby would stomp Fairfield County, Connecticut into the subsoil for."

Paul Cooper - PITCHFORK

“It’s quite hard to find the right stage for his work, because it often simply “does not fit the format”. But – as he has always done – Banabila chooses to do what he feels that must be done. Not just simply what might be expected. No compromise!”

Peter van Cooten - AMBIENTBLOG

"Banabila crée ici quelque chose de véritablement étrange et onirique, immédiatement attrayant et profondément relaxant. Il ne cesse de nous surprendre, à la fois par la fréquence de ses parutions et par la diversité des champs musicaux qu'il propose." 

BAD SEEDS RECORD SHOP

 

“The humility of Michel Banabila & Oene van Geel is apparent, as composition, improvisation, and shaping duties shift from song to song, man to man: a fluid trade that yields far greater dividends.”

Richard Allen - A CLOSER LISTEN

"Lumière de l'obscur, beauté des chocs et des convergences, Michel Banabila conduit un fascinant orchestre subliminal."

Dionys Della Luce - INACTUELLES, MUSIQUES SINGULIÈRES

 

 

 

"The music of Banabila is a microcosm of itself, a complex interplay between acoustic and electronic, found objects, field recordings, and unnamed unheard of textures." 

Mike Lazarev - HEADPHONE COMMUTE

"Music like skits linked by language and the musicians’ joy in ethno-absurdity, wherein breakbeats swept up from the rubble of a bustling Babel sprout from the global glossolalia like freaky minarets"

Echoinggrove - RATE YOUR MUSIC

" 'VoizNoiz’ is eigenzinnig, slim en groovy. Als een wandeling door een stad op de eerste mooie dag van de lente, als iedereen vrolijk en een beetje gek is."

msch - GONZO

“He assembles humorously upbeat, almost poppy structures that seem all the more accessible for the sampled blurts. Even his slower tunes are punctuated by smile-inducing processed vocals.”

EXCLAIM.CA

"'Echo Transformations' proves again how Banabila is at his best creating his characteristic fourth world atmospheres infused by warped electro-acoustic manipulation."

Mariette Groot - UNDERBELLY SOUNDARTMEDIA

 

“It's wonderfully reassuring to see mature artists not just continuing, but releasing music of quality and creativity that exceeds their previously excellent work. Bravo! for 'Float'. ”

Stephen Hill - HOS RADIO

"Artificial voices, singing and speaking in an invented language.

'Little Star' seems like it can only be described as an Alien Lullaby." 

Paul Simpson - THE ANSWER IS IN THE BEAT

"His work bridges experimental and contemporary forms with a modern sound bordering on electronica but infused with a seriousness of intent and purpose less frequently heard in that style."

Phil Zampino - THE SQUID'S EAR

Michel Banabila live in Turin
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