Yara Mekawei © Jasper Kettner

CTM 2025: Yara Mekawei + Saadet Türköz & Eldar Tagi

Sat 01/25/2025 06:00 pm Start 05:00 pm Doors Festival, Concert Kuppelhalle Ticket

Returning to silent green in 2025 for their 26th edition, CTM Festival brings a host of adventurous and transgressive concerts once more. Concerts, performances and multisensory experiences from avant-garde music ensemble 33, Heinali and Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko’s reimagining of Hildegard von Bingen, the genre-defying These New Puritans returning with their first LP since 2019, the Egyptian composer Yara Mekawei and Spooky-J – the British electronic architect behind Nihiloxica’s rhythmic force—bringing the raw intensity of traditional Bugandan percussion with the throbbing pulse of underground techno.

6pm: Yara Mekawei

The pioneering Egyptian composer navigates the intricate intersections of personal, political, and sonic highways. As a female Muslim artist from a region marked by deep-rooted religious conservatism and patriarchal structures, Mekawei’s compositions reflect the tension between external conflicts and internal struggles. Her music serves as both a form of expression and a means of resistance, particularly within a society where creative freedom is often stifled—particularly for women.

7pm: Saadet Türköz & Eldar Tagi

A celebrated improviser and vocal artist, Saadet Türköz’s music is deeply rooted in the folk songs of her grandparents, intertwined with sounds from India, Central Asia, and the Arab world and blended seamlessly with blues, free jazz, and the European and American avant-garde. She’s joined by sound artist Eldar Tagi, whose intricate sonic landscapes bridge experimental techniques and personal narratives shaped by his mixed Central Asian heritage.

Festival passes are on sale now, along with further program details. More acts, and event details and tickets will be released as of December.

For 25 years, CTM has been highlighting new strains of underground club culture and art that ventures through the weird, the challenging, the cathartic, the esoteric, the contagious, and the ecstatic – simultaneously exploring sonic histories, contexts, and political and technological entanglements.

 

Saturday, January 25
Doors 5pm / Start 6pm
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