Festival Lineup

MESHALKA (Ita/Slo)

The MESHALKA impro collective was formed especially for LIVE- Musiche di Sconfine as a guest at the 25th SAJETA festival.

Silvia Bolognesi – doublebass
Giovanni Maier – doublebass
Žiga Ipavec – drums
Vid Drašler – drums 
Alberto Novello – modular synth
Andrea Gulli – live electronics, chimereal
Jure Boršič – alto sax, clarinet
Paolo Pascolo – flutes, tenor sax

The collective comprises musicians from different generations of the Friulian/Julian and Slovenian improvisational scene, with various collaborations to their credit, and Tuscan guest Silvia Bolognesi. In recent years, many cross-border groups and projects have sprung up in the North Adriatic area, giving rise to a real ‘scene’.
The group will have collective workshop days in which through a peer-to-peer method they will develop a set to be performed live at the Sajeta festival.
The combination of more ‘classical’ instruments such as percussion, woodwinds and double basses with instruments such as modular synthesisers and live electronics is intended to be an attempt to find new solutions in improvisational technique with a form that starts with a double quartet.
LIVE – Musiche di Sconfine with Sajeta will handle the recording of the event and its dissemination through its own channels and label.

MAURICIO TAKARA & CARLA BOREGAS (Bra)

M. Takara: drums, percussion, electronics, vibraphone, harpsichord

Carla Boregas: synth, electronics, gong, field recording, harpsichord

Mauricio Takara and Carla Boregas are key players in the experimental and underground music scene in São Paulo, Brazil, now located in Berlin. Takara is an explorer of rhythmic regions, confidently abstract and melodic, while Boregas focuses on the manipulation of synthesizers, bass, and electroacoustics As a duo they pull apart the seams between spiritual jazz, dub and krautrock. Their music is always in movement, in a dialogue of structural and emotional states, like the universe expanding into infinity.  On their albums, the duo explores the theme of water and translates it from a physical to a meta-musical element.

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CONTAGIOUS (Ger/Jpn)

Sabine Ercklentz — trumpet, electronics

Andrea Neumann – inside piano, mixer

Mieko Suzuki — turntable, electronics

Contagious is a compelling blend of avant-garde experimentation and electronic music, brought into being by the creative crossroads of Andrea Neumann and Sabine Ercklentz from the Berlin improvisation scene and Mieko Suzuki, a sound artist and DJ. Together, the musicians communicate in compositional logics and futuristic structures in which fragile sonic textures and impulses become monumental.  Interacting like a living creature, they interweave a self developed Inside Piano, processing rig, turntables and trumpet. The trio transcends binary opposites and is ambivalent in the best sense of the word: very enigmatic and very alive. 

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STURLE DAGSLAND (Nor)

Sturle Dagsland is a high-profile Norwegian avant-folk project formed by two brothers, instrumentalist Sjur Dagsland  and vocalist Sturle Dagsland. The wild and adventurous spirit of transgenre music resides in the darkness of avant-garde, imaginary folk and primordial cosmic soup of unique vocal techniques. Dagsland balances beauty and chaos in a surrealist take on music and with intensely dramatic performances creates his multicultural musical utopia.

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STEM (Nmk)

Aleksandar Temkov (MK)
DJ Stem is ‘The Bunker Jockey’ who plays hardline beat dance tracks filed under folders disco-punk, funky-punk, classic-punk, whatever-punk.
His motto is: ‘Beats crushes all concrete walls into pieces beats melt down all cemented souls.’

YOUMNA SABA (Lbn)

Youmna Saba is a Lebanese musician, composer, and musicologist. Her current research deals with the relationship between electroacoustic music and the Arabic language in its sung form. These explorations manifest themselves in her solo music making, collaborations, film music and electroacoustic experiments on new devices designed for voice and her instrument, the oud. The result of the latter is her fifth album Wishah, the perceptions of the instrument and her home as space that no longer exists as such, after her move to Paris.

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INGRID SCHMOLINER (Aut)

Musician, composer, pedagogue and curator from Vienna. Her music is classified under the folder of improvisation, experimental and contemporary music, which are deeply inspired by avant-garde jazz, folk and ambient music, minimal and techno. Her sophisticated and surgically precise performances on the piano are superb acoustic experiences. She teaches various singing techniques, such as yodeling, polyphony, and improvisation. She released more than 10 albums of her original music and is the co-founder of the New Adits festival in Klagenfurt.

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33 (Usa/Ger/Bel)

Alexander Iezzi (USA/Ger) & Billy Bultheel (Bel/Ger)

33 is a Berlin-based music ensemble founded by Alexander Iezzi and Billy Bultheel. The pillar of the project is the collaboration of various artistic forms and genres, which form a new creative constellation in each performance. Such is also the project’s debut album “33–69”, a critically acclaimed cauldron of explosive techno, bone-chilling industrial and baroque art pop voices. The duo’s concerts are performative bubbles in which 33 become the narrators of multisensory experiences.

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CHRA (Aut)

Chra is the alias of the Viennese producer, author, and radio/TV presenter Christina Nemec, who has been active as a musician in both the metal/noise and experimental electronic scenes since the 1980s. She is the cofounder of the queer-feminist performance band SV Damenkraft and coruns the queer-feminist label Comfortzone. After a period of experimentation with low frequencies and sound effects, Chra started working with sine waves, processed with tape recorders and other analog and digital tools to allude to landscapes, territories, silences, and exceptional and extreme situations. She released several solo albums on the renowned label Editions Mego.

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ŠÆRÅR (Cro)

Ivan Šarar (ex Plod Mirže, ex Let3, Porno brak), for the first time live, tries to perform a small part of his solo opus, which he has been working on since 2016. The so-called Muzikice, or Private Music, is a kind of personal quest for acceptable, unfinished, raw, unproduced music, music with a flaw that is only accessible live. If we have to put it in one of the drawers, maybe it’s DIY lo-fi cinematic electronica, maybe it’s 100% not.

CADLAG (Slo)

The experimental-electronic collective formed by creators of PureH, Extreme Smoke and Dodecahedragraph is a living entity of massive audiovisual structures. One of the most refreshing Slovenian projects in the noise and drone spheres is unyielding, brutal and elegant. Pure improvisation of double bass drone, modulated guitars, electronics and monochrome visuals form an always unpredictable sound installation in “real-time”.

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Clockwork Voltage – ZERGON (Slo)

Aleš Hieng – Zergon is a DJ, producer, and sound artist from Ljubljana. He is a member of Synaptic Crew, and among other things works in the field of audio-visual performances and DIY electronics. The creator’s sound signature reflects two sides of the electronic coin. His interest in club music and sound exploration spans a wide variety, from deep-house, dub techno, and techno to IDM, experimental electronics, noise, and abstract drone. As an advocate of improvisation, in his live performances, he programs music, does sound design, plays with effects, and mixes it all with field recordings. His music can be found on the compilations of key Slovenian electronic labels Chilli Space and Kamizdat and as self-released works.

Clockwork Voltage is a Slovenian community for music enthusiasts of modular synthesizers,  who diligently tweak around in the shelters of their home studios and practice oscillating in everyday life. From well-known to unknown creators on Slovenian soil, the wealth of their expressions is as limitless as the possibilities offered by synthesizers. In 2022, the platform presented the compilation Happy Little Voltages, the first Slovenian release of current production with modular synthesizers, in which 17 domestic producers are participating.

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MOTERIS (Ltv)

Lithuanian queer and house music DJ. Woman is always at the center of Her music. Each set is a collision between queer and feminist anthems, synthesizers, female Arab whispers, and guitars.

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LAURA AGNUSDEI & DANIELE FABRIS (Ita)

Daniele and Laura are two Italian musicians that met in The Netherlands, at the The Institute of Sonology in The Hague. The project is focused on exploring the boundaries and interconnections between electronic and acoustic instrumental music, challenging common stereotypes of electroacoustic music and searching for new ways of instruments’ interactions that push beyond sound expressions.

As a duo they combine Laura’s saxophone classical background and free improvisation with Daniele’s experience as a composer researcher and creative coder.

Their performative and compositional methods explores how the sound of a traditional acoustic instrument can be recontextualize through interaction with digital algorithms for real-time sound processing.

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NOUSDEUX ÉTRANGE ENSEMBLE (Fra)

JWelt : drums

Olivier MASSON : saxophones 

Maureen SIEGEL : vocals and keyboard

David CHAMLA : sound

NousDeux Étrange Ensemble are French avant-rockers of romantic punk and chaotic jazz. The band represents a new chapter of the project Art Moulu from the 80s and continues its line of Rock in opposition. The duo of self-taught countercultural riffs and poetry of the everyday, Welt and Masson, are joined by vocalist and keyboardist Siegel, and the resulting rock trio – one without a guitar – is united by a love for the micro moments that fill our lives and the happy magic of experiments. Three members, three musical backgrounds, collectively weird.

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PRETTY ADDICTED (Gbr)

Started in 2011, Pretty Addicted originated in London and are now based in Yorkshire. They have made their mark on innocent ears as a raw, brutal force of nature spanning many genres; primarily electronic but with metal and punk influences. Pretty Addicted have 5 studio-albums, but their latest release “We, the broken children of hell” traces an even heavier, darker sound that is based around anti-religious themes and has birthed a new cult. They refer to their community as “The Cult of the Broken Children”, of which the cult’s image and message is very much anti-religious and purposely provocative.

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THE SHUFFLE DEMONS (Can)

Richard Underhill -alto sax & vocals, 

Kelly Jefferson – tenor sax and vocals,

Matt Lagan – tenor sax and vocals, 

Mike Downes – bass and vocals, 

Stich Wynston -drums and vocals

If a joke started with: “Sun Ra, Charles Mingus, Run DMC and Beastie Boys are sitting in a bar…”, but halfway through the devil would appear, you’d get the Canadians The Shuffle demons. Serious musicians with an affinity for performance and entertaining, mix jazz, funk and hip hop in an uplifting and optimistic music. A cool cat’s big bend moment for a technically skilled dancing groove.

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KATJA ŠULC (Slo)

Katja Šulc – vocals, ukulele, drum
Andraž Mazi – pedal steel guitar, banjo
Luka Uršič – keyboard bass, synth, flute

Katja Šulc is a singer and musician who eclectically threads together poetry and music through contemporary chanson, alternative folk, modern and traditional poetry, endangered languages and threatened cultures. In the spring of 2024 Katja released her fifth album “West Wind Blow From Your Prairie Nest” inspired by Native American poetry and culture, which she explored at the artist residency at the Institute of American Indian Arts (US). The music, which has been an important part of her life from her travels to Mexico and later studies at the university New School in New York, is always led by a deep emotional understanding. If poetry is a necessity which fills our life, Šulc takes us on the path of a nomadic flaneur of musical poetry.

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KANDA, KODŽA I NEBOJŠA (Srb) 

Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša is a Serbian alternative band with a unique poetic vision in the Balkan region. More than thirty years of exploring the fusion of rock, folk and traditional Serbian music began in the summer of 1991, a decade in which they proved to be one of the highlights of the late phase of the development of ex-yu rock and roll. But they still know how to give young people of all generations a lesson about political sharpness, when they mirror their intimate world. With unparalleled charisma, KKN offers an answer to the question of what kind of rock is needed in our region – passionate, engaged and always in love with its audience.

Clockwork Voltage – BEATMYTH (Slo)

BeatMyth started as a duo in 2007 and they produced two albums together “Your Own Two Heads” (2009) and “Questionable Image” (2012). They were doing mostly fat-sounding-breakbeat with MC N’Toko on vocals. Currently, Igor Vuk is exploring various electronic genres, working on new songs, and playing live with MC N’Toko. Some EPs were released on American labels Starblocks Rec. and DogEatDog and a full-length album One Hand Clap was released in May 2017 on Kamizdat Records. Multiply EP followed in 2019 and The Left Eye was released in 2020. Beatmyth is reborn with a modular synth setup and the latest release on Clockwork Voltage – Happy Little Voltages compilation in 2022. 

Clockwork Voltage is a Slovenian community for music enthusiasts of modular synthesizers,  who diligently tweak around in the shelters of their home studios and practice oscillating in everyday life. From well-known to unknown creators on Slovenian soil, the wealth of their expressions is as limitless as the possibilities offered by synthesizers. In 2022, the platform presented the compilation Happy Little Voltages, the first Slovenian release of current production with modular synthesizers, in which 17 domestic producers are participating.

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HYBRIDA (Ita)

The Circolo Arci Hybrida cultural society based in the Italian town of Tarcento near Udine has been organizing and promoting events and concerts for 20 years, mostly alternative, improvisational and contemporary avant-garde music.

Since 2007, they have been organizing various light performances through various media: projectors and slides, computers, video projectors, DIY gadgets and also techniques used in the 60’s. Their performances were hosted at many festivals: such as Udin & Jazz (“The Old New Thing”, 2008), Il Suono di Pan (“Gods”, 2010), project “In The Box” realized as “Eventopalazzo” in Gorizia with the DobiaLab association in 2011.

In these light-video performances, they try to find the perfect interaction with space where the event is hosted. We could therefore label their production as improvisational or expanded cinema. With their rich and wide collection of visual tools the Hybrida group strives to catch the public’s manifold sensory experiences and stimulate them to produce active seeing which can enable someone to achieve “clear and bright dreams”. In any case, the natural beauties of Sotočje will present a true challenge to the Hybrida team to create for us the unthinkable bursts of our experience by uniting the world of music and video-light effects.

WEB: HYBRIDA SPACE

FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/hybridaspace/

Clockwork Voltage – 08080 (Slo)

Jure Anžiček (08080) is a sound designer and producer active in different experimental music projects (Ansambel PRSA, collaboration with Alastair McNeill). In his solo work, he uses improvisation on modular synthesizers to create distorted, abrasive, and astringent sounds that border on techno and noise. The sound explorer put out his experimental beats on the label Kamizdat in the form of an EP Astro Disco.

Clockwork Voltage is a Slovenian community for music enthusiasts of modular synthesizers,  who diligently tweak around in the shelters of their home studios and practice oscillating in everyday life. From well-known to unknown creators on Slovenian soil, the wealth of their expressions is as limitless as the possibilities offered by synthesizers. In 2022, the platform presented the compilation Happy Little Voltages, the first Slovenian release of current production with modular synthesizers, in which 17 domestic producers are participating.

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Clockwork Voltage – DUF (Slo)

Jaka Berger has been one of the most active, creative, and diverse drummers, percussionists, composers, and improvisers in the Slovenian music landscape in the last fifteen years. His musical landscape stretches all from music for a prepared drum kit, ambient music, experimental hip hop (DUF), and dub (Darla Smoking), to experimental composition (Cornelius Cardew’s Treatise), noise, contemporary jazz, and improvised music (Fresh Dust Trio, Shoe & Shoelace, Niemoy, …), installations (Party) and electroacoustic music. In recent years, he has been intensively involved in the field of modular sound synthesis, establishing and expanding new sound fields in his work.

Clockwork Voltage is a Slovenian community for music enthusiasts of modular synthesizers,  who diligently tweak around in the shelters of their home studios and practice oscillating in everyday life. From well-known to unknown creators on Slovenian soil, the wealth of their expressions is as limitless as the possibilities offered by synthesizers. In 2022, the platform presented the compilation Happy Little Voltages, the first Slovenian release of current production with modular synthesizers, in which 17 domestic producers are participating.

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ZAHRA MANI (Gbr/Aut) & BERANGERE MAXIMIN (Fra)

Zahra Mani and Bérangère Maximin perform together for the first time live at the 25th edition of Sajeta. Two unique yet related approaches to sound, space and acoustic textures meet, collide, merge and dissipate in a sonic encounter at the Confluence. 

Zahra Mani Bass Guitar, Field Recordings, Live Electronics – Zahra Mani was born in London and lives in Austria. Her sound is characterized by a burgeoning archive of field recordings, instrumental and found sounds that she edits, loops, transforms and re-composes as central organic elements of her music in a differentiated exploration of spaces between, where voices, instruments, machines, the sea, wind, rain, animals and landscapes provide the acoustic basis for auditory worlds.

https://www.zahramani.com

Bérangère MAXIMIN is a composer, producer, and performer known for her immersive and detailrich abstract music. She creates sound compositions that engage listeners in a profound consideration of space and texture. Maximin’s keen sense of detail and lyrical finesse have solidified her reputation on the experimental music scene. She regularly performs in both institutional and independent venues. Her work has been released on Tzadik (USA), Sub Rosa (BE), Crammed Discs (BE), Atlas Realisations (UK), and Karlrecords (DE).

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ILPO VÄISÄNEN (Fin)

One half of the legendary Finnish duo Panasonic / Pan Sonic, the electronic project with Mika Vainio, with which they created an inimitable landscape of industrial, dub, techno and rock. A supporter of freedom and independence, he creates music in order not to forget the reasons for fighting. Väisänen’s musicianship is anachronistic and provocative in the age of digital ubiquity, using self-made analog keyboards and oscillators, his viewpoint mirroring into music that is both futuristic and primal.

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BLAŽ (Slo)

Blaž Gračar

Blaž is an epitome of rejecting creative categories as, among other things, an electronic producer, composer, filmmaker and game inventor. He is the originator and innovator of the Slovenian beatmaking and electronic scene, an honor afforded to him because of his musical futurism and a limitless explorer’s streak. His intelligent electronic music bends seriousness, prioritizes eclecticism and skips immaterial digitality, as Blaž’s music not only captures the ears, but also the body. At the festival, he will present last year’s critically acclaimed album “Are You A Player”.

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GUIDO MöBIUS (Ger)

Guido Möbius, a one-man orchestra with guitar, voice, trumpet, and effects, crafts ever-changing, high-energy music. Spontaneous audience interaction and a blend of techno, funk, noise, polyrhythms, and gospel make his performances unique. In his performances the perfectionism of preparation meets improvisation, while failures are embraced as muses. For the Sajeta’s anniversary Möbius will present some new tracks, including at least one birthday serenade.

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ŠIROM (Slo)

The Prekmurje-Tolmin-Karst fellowship of Iztok Koren, Samo Kutin and Ana Kravanja has in eight years of existence united the landscapes of genres, approaches, histories and musical-craftsmanship imagination. Their unique expression is split between a wide sphere of folk sounds and contemporary acoustic-rock meditations. What we end up hearing is a down-to-earth, but still mystical, minimalism. With their last album The Liquified Throne of Simplicity (Glitterbeat), Širom once and for all conquered the world with the vastness of their musical inventiveness and presented the work at more than a hundred concerts all over Europe.
Iztok Koren – banjo, three string banjo, bass drum, percussion, chimes, balafon, various objects
Ana Kravanja – violin, viola, rebab, cünbüs, balafon, ngoma drum, mizmar, various objects, vocals
Samo Kutin – lyre, balafon, one string bass, frame drums, brač, gongoma, mizmar, various objects, vocals

WEB: http://www.siromband.si/

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RED SNAPPER (Gbr)

Before London glimpsed the futurism of jazz as popular culture with the contemporary new jazz scene, the British trio Red Snapper led the genre into the future already in the 90s. Pioneers of the synthesis of acoustic instruments and electronic textures that earned them a home on Warp Records, the trio stands for a unique blend of live, euphoric Afro-Jazz, Future Funk, Dub, Dark Hip-Hop and fragile soundscapes. In 2023, they released a new album ‘Live at The Moth Club’, a collection of new pieces and outstanding discography works, which will be presented live at the festival.

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THOMAS FEHLMANN (Sui)

The Berlin-based musician and producer Thomas Fehlmann is one of the key actors of the German electronic music scene since its heyday in the ’80s, when he co-founded the avant-garde band Palais Schaumburg. With Moritz Von Oswald and Juan Atkins he composed the pioneering Detroit/Berlin project 3MB, was a member of The Orb from 1990 to 2017, and was a resident at the legendary original Tresor club. In a career spanning more than four decades, he stands for the innovativeness of continuous research, which in solo creation ranges from dub ambient albums for the Kompakt label to generative electronics.

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S.PUTNIK (Aut)

Born in the seventies, he already started collecting records as a child, generally fascinated by musical equipment and instruments. His passion for music led him to djing lots of genres, from Balkans to Dub, from World Music through Jazz, Funk, and Soul to all varieties of Electronic Music. His DJ sets are known to be spontaneous and eclectic, dissolving genres into a groove-orientated, danceable journey through the world of music. He was a resident DJ at Klagenfurt’s infamous underground location „Mellow Lounge“ or the „Russian Style Diskoteka“ series in Graz and performed in Austrian clubs like Postgarage, PPC, Flex, Ost-Club or on festivals like „Fragole on Air“ in Trieste, „Geschichtsforum 89|09“ and „Theaterformen“ in Berlin. Since 2020 he has been involved in PSI Music, a label focused on the production of high-quality video & audio releases across diverse musical genres.

As „Serac“ he is producing electronic music between Ambient and Techno and has recently released two EPs on the Spanish label Diffuse Reality Records.

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MALI DEMON (Srb)

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ANA ČOP & KRISTIJAN KRAJNČAN (Slo)

Ana Čop – vocals, effects

Kristijan Krajnčan – cello, drums, effects

The leaders of the expedition between the styles and periods of jazz and folk music, traveling through a charming combination of drums, voice, cello and effects are award-winning Slovenian musicians. Singer Ana Čop is the leader of the band Lilamors, a member of various international bands (Trokut, Kugelförmigkeit, etc.) and curator of the Jazz festival and Jazzinty workshop in Slovenia. Kristijan Krajnčan is establishing himself as one of the most recognizable European artists of his generation. The virtuoso on drums and cello, a composer and filmmaker has long since moved away from fitting a single musical descriptor.

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BAKALINA VELIKA (Slo)

Bakalina Velika is as legendary as her epic musical fables, modern-folk songs with socio-critical and lyrical messages in the Čadrg dialect. The initial storytellers, the duo of self-taught musicians – songwriter and singer, language farmer-poet, Jani Kutin and harmonica player Renata Lapanja, met like-minded people along their journey and thus Bakalina Velika was born (Samo Kutin, Dejan Lapanja, Matej Magajne, Marjan Stanić, Andrea Pandolfo). Last year, the band released their second album Zviezdno srebruo to excellent critical and audience reception. In recent months a new album is being created, on which we can also expect songs played on instruments made from the famous Čadrška fir, the wood of which is more than 6500 years old.

ANUSHKA CHKHEIDZE (Geo)

Anushka Chkheidze is a rising Georgian electronic music producer. Her music is not defined by genre, but instead by atmosphere, complexity and alienation. The artist is a master of exploring the unknown and fleeting moment, expressed in disintegrating IDM and rave ecstasy all through cinematic atmospheres. But the foundation of it all, is a musical cognizance shaping her whole life, from childhood folk choir singing, to a collaboration with Berlin musician Robert Lippok and her own electroacoustic experiments.

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AUF WIEDERSEHEN (Srb)

Auf Wiedersehen is an electro-rock’n’roll, rave’n’roll, or simply said an electro-nu-wave-disco punk band from Belgrade that has been around since 2010. A minimalistic approach to music creation, repetitive electronic psychedelic riffs and energy imbued with rock’n’roll and blues, give the duo’s music a dance character with a slightly dark undertone.

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