Rewire presents a rare performance from ØKSE & billy woods. ØKSE is an international group of avant-garde musicians gathered around a boiling pot of wild, jazzy sounds. They're made up of NYC-based drummer Savannah Harris, Danish saxophonist Mette Rasmussen, Haitian electronic musician Val Jeanty, and Swede Petter Eldh on bass, synths, and sampler. billy woods is a NYC rapper who performed at last year's Rewire and was heralded by many as a festival highlight. ØKSE's collaboration with woods emerged from a chance encounter in a quiet Swiss town in 2022, when saxophonist Mette Rasmussen and woods played the same tiny venue. This meeting led to their collaboration, "Amager," a jaunty, high-tempo, bebop-hop track where turntablist breaks meld into live drums while ferocious bass keeps pace and saxophone bellows. As well as this set with ØKSE, woods performs elsewhere at the festival as part of Armand Hammer, his rap duo with ELUCID.