Festival Lineup

NIKA PRUSNIK & ROK ZALOKAR (SLO)

An intimate dialogue between voice and piano, mythical rituals and haunting performance

Singer, poet and performer Nika Prusnik is one of the freshest and most touching artistic voices in Slovenia. Known for her ethereal voice and ritualistic performances, she weaves together mythical stories about ancestral memory, love and transformation. In the instrumental spectrum, she is matched by pianist, composer and improviser Rok Zalokar, a unique figure in the Slovenian jazz scene. Together, through voice and piano, they enter into an intimate dialogue and speak a sound that seems poignant, fresh and ancient at the same time.

Nika Prusnik – vocal
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Rok Zalokar – piano
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SAMO KUTIN & VID DRAŠLER (SLO)

Duo of unconventional, exploratory and improvisational minds of the Slovenian scene

Samo Kutin is an extremely active multi-instrumentalist, known for his use of unconventional and self-made musical instruments and sound-making objects. One of the traditional instruments in his repertoire is also the Hungarian medieval string instrument hurdy gurdy, which he can be often seen playing at the events of experimental and improvised music. In the field of ​​free improvisation he is intensively devoted to finding, discovering and manipulating the various potentialities of the hurdy gurdy. The extreme acoustic dimensions, from gentle noise to noisy drones, from soft blows to unbearable whimpers, he reaches through the preparation and amplification of the musical instrument, using both contact microphones and acoustic resonators.
He performs as a soloist and in a variety of bands, amongst others Širom, Bakalina Velika, Kačis, in improvised combinations (among others, duo with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Lee Paterson, Boris Baltschun, Daichi Yoshikawo etc.) and etno ensembles at international festivals and various stages. He also creates music for fairy tales, animations, theater, puppet and dance performances and regularly runs workshops for children.

Vid Drašler is from Bistrica ob Sotli, where he played in a jazz-rock band Zmajev rep and in the Malik. With the Balžalorsky / Drašler trio he made a breakthrough in Slovenian jazz. With no less subtlety he plays in a chanson-oriented Orkestrada. One of his next peaks is the Drašler – Karlovčec – Drašler trio whose noisy improvisation is in no way less clear than his earlier more structured work.
Vid has collaborated in several theatre productions as well as with the Kombo Kombo – a jazz orchestra lead by Zlatko Kavčič, with whom he also studied for four years. He has been active as a pedagogue and co-author of music and art events in the town of Vrhnika, where he is also the curator of a weekly workshop focused primarily on non-idiomatic improvisation.He has collaborated with the following musicians: Zlatko Kaučič, Vitja Balžalorsky, Jošt Drašler, Marko Karlovčec, Andrej Boštjančič, Andrej Fon, Tomaž Grom, Cene Resnik, Kaja Draksler, Mario Rechtern, Linda Sharrock, Petr Zelenka, Samo Kutin, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec …

WIYAALA & YAGA YAGAS (GHA/SLO)

Star of the African music scene with an afro-american fusion project

Wiyaala is a multi-award winning musician from Funsi in northwestern Ghana and is one of the biggest stars of the African music scene. Her music combines West African traditional music and contemporary Afro-pop music, sometimes drawing comparisons to Osibisa and Angelique Kidjo. Wiyaala has received awards from WOMAD UK, the 2018 Commonwealth Games and the African Union, has been a member of the GRAMMY Academy since 2022, and has built an arts center, guesthouse and restaurant in her village.
On a 2019 European tour, Wiyaala connected with some of the best musicians on the Slovenian music scene. Together, they formed the YagaYaga project, which is based on Afro-American fusion music.

Wiyaala – vocals
Miha Petric – guitar
Nejc Škofic – keyboard
Jošt Lampret – bass
Žiga Kožar – drums

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BITOI (SE/DK)

The primordial essence of minimalism in a maximalist rendition of modern folk

BITOI (Bass Is The Original Instrument) is a Swedish-Danish and bass-voice hybrid that creates maximalism from minimalism. In the dialogue of bass, composer and bassist Cassius Lambert, and vocalists Alexandra Shabo, Elle Cronberg and Lydia Cronberg, create a folk out of time. The music whisks around sharply, but creates a lush atmosphere of layered melodies and dissonances. Feelings take us into imaginary memories of past eras, the compositional system leads us through the modernity of jazz and experimental vocal music, and when we are already pleasantly confused, we are finally enchanted by the sung texts, based on phonetically transcribed bird songs.
After an extremely successful year 2025, in which BITOI received the award for Swedish folk & world music newcomer of the year, the award for Danish roots newcomer of the year, released their debut album, and performed on stages such as Roskilde, Le Guess Who?, and Rewire, the performance at Sajeta will be the band’s premiere show in Slovenia.

Cassius Lambert – Bass Guitar
Alexandra Shabo – Vocals
Ella Cronberg – Vocals
Lydia Cronberg – Vocals

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GRUNT (SLO)

A nomadic musical horde of Babylonian nature

Grunt is a nomadic musical horde that, taking a break from the chaotic present, roams through space and time. From the Black Sea’s depths of Greek Pontic longing to the rosy Sephardic tapestry, through devotion of Bosnian sevdah to the fiery Kurdish wedding, from Turkish homesickness to the golden rays of Macedonia, sailing the Panonian sea into its own contemplation. The bands expeditions explores the meeting point of primal ethno with rock and other modern styles, without overlooking the richness of classical music and free, improvised expression.

Metka Knap – vocals, tambura
Anton Lorenzutti – guitar
Timi Vremec – bass
Tomi Novak – drums, electronics

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SWAI (SLO)

Techno poetry of beautiful abstractions and hauntingly eerie sound

SWAI is a fresh eclectic techno project created by two veterans of the Slovenian electronic music scene and respected members of modular synthesis community Clockwork Voltage, Shekuza and BeatMyth.
The artists bring decades of experience in music production, songwriting, and live performance as DJs, solo live acts, and members of bands. Shekuza is a respected figure in the techno scene, known for his work with modular synthesisers and his role in the alternative band Moveknowledgement. BeatMyth has had a long-standing career as a DJ and producer, releasing acclaimed breakbeat albums with MC N’toko, performing live modular synth sets and has worked extensively in studios.
After years of collaborative garage sessions and hours of recording, the two friends finalised an album of what they term techno poetry. A comprehensive art piece featuring sophisticated technoid compositions that are beautifully crafted yet hauntingly eerie.

Shekuza (Miha Šajina) – electronics
BeatMyth (Igor Vuk) – electronics

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FFFV (ITA)

Noise music of no input internal instabilities

FFFV is a noise music duo that uses the practice of No-Input Mixing.
No-input is an anti-instrumental, anti-musical technique. It is a radical practice because it starts from nothing, with no external sound source. It builds everything from within. Every sound arises from internal instabilities.

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IRENA TOMAŽIN (SLO)

Irena Z. Tomažin is a dancer, choreographer, performer, vocalist, singer and improviser, strongly present on the local and international scene. As a musician she made her name with solo project iT, project for voice and dictaphones, where she uses forms of songs, sound poetry, spoken word, theatre, text and performance. The project took her on the path of deconstruction of voice which she deepens as an improviser, solo artist or in various groups and collaborations, where she went further with exploration of sound and noise of the voice, textures and in-between spaces of voice, body and bodily mechanics. She performs solo or in collaborations with among others: Tomaž Grom, Lee Patterson, Xavier Charles, Christof Kurzmann, Jonas Kocher, Gaudenz Badrutt, Šalter Ensemble, Tim Blechmann, Michael Zerang, Liz Allbee, Alessandra Eramo, Ilia Belorukov, Okkyung Lee, Maja Osojnik, Christian Kesten, Ina Puntar, Dré Hočevar, Matej Bonin and others.

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BOA BÉRES (SRB)

Speculative sonic landscapes of imagined hybrid species, new beings, and emerging ecosystems

Bojana Knežević: Boa Béres / Voicing Hybrid Ecosystems
Boa Béres is the vocal-experimental alter ego of artist Bojana (S) Knežević, dedicated to exploring expanded scopes of voice, experimental polyphony, and vocal textures at the threshold between noise and silence, human, animal, and other-than-human. 
Through practices of collecting, recycling, and transforming words and sounds, the performance explores the relationship between voice and noise, the aesthetics of feedback, and extended vocal techniques combined with analog and digital media.
Drawing on ecofeminist discourse and feminist speculative fiction, Voicing Hybrid Ecosystems presents speculative sonic landscapes in which human, animal, and non-human voices intertwine and cross. Through layered vocal textures and improvisation, the performance brings to life the sounds of imagined hybrid species, new beings, and emerging ecosystems.
Bojana (S) Knežević / Boa Béres is a media artist and researcher working in performance, sound and radio art, as well as audio-visual and multichannel sound installations. Her engaged artistic projects aim to deconstruct patriarchal social structures, stereotypes, and systems of power, focusing on the voices of marginalized or hidden individual and collective identities. In her work, she explores the relationship between noise and silence as social constructs, responding to the systemic silencing of female, queer, and non-human bodies.

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KATALIN LADIK (HUN)

A cosmic and personal travel of a pioneer of experimental vocal and performance art

Katalin Ladik: Foreign Substance: The Transformation of Remembering
In a neutral zone — a No Man’s Land — Katalin Ladik stands before a vast projection screen. Around her, a Solar System unfolds: planets orbit the Sun, each embodying a facet of her artistic language. 
The performance takes place inside her mind — a live act of remembering. Images appear, leap across time, contradict themselves. Ladik argues with her own memories, reshaping them, inventing what never happened, confronting thoughts that seem to have strayed from reality.
Two parallel worlds emerge: one of recalled life episodes, the other a cosmic dance of celestial bodies. Gradually, they entwine. 
From this fusion, Ladik isolates and amplifies the Foreign Substance — the most ancient matter — within her own universe. With its resonances, she begins to compose what she calls Einstein’s unfinished acoustic symphony. 
Inspired by the discovery of gravitational waves — Foreign Substance born from the collision of two neutron stars — this performance follows Katalin Ladik as she rides the gravitational currents of her own life and vocal universe. Like a wave rider, she confronts the foreign matter that has shaped her existence. 
A pioneer in experimental vocal and performance art, Ladik continually questions gender norms and female archetypes, using her body and voice as both instrument and medium. Transformation and substitution shape her work, dissolving boundaries and dualities — a universe where human, object, and nature speak in a shared, timeless language. 
Live on stage, Ladik’s voice and movements weave with vast video projections and the natural sounds of stars, drawing the audience into a hypnotic space where art and science meet. The journey is as much cosmic as it is personal.

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SUJEVERA (SLO)

Electroacoustic rituals for a more unusual future

Sujevera is a quartet of old acquaintances from electronic, DIY and improvisation circles, who embody the love for ear-provocations and unusual sounds. Sujevera (in Serbian) is also a quasi-religious belief that future events depend on the performance of certain magical acts and ritual regimes. Together, DIY instruments, harps, effects, sound devices, drumming and sound manipulations and their magical musicians perform electro-acoustic rituals for a more unusual future, lulling the listener into mythologies of noise.

Nina R. Orlić is a former member of the Kikimore collective. She contributed to their sound with her DIY instruments and knowledge of rhythm. Her musical experience derives from being a member of industrial collective The Stroj for 7 years, playing brazilian batucada in percussion group Sherzer Brigade and fascination with African traditional music, as she learned to play the jembe from the jembe masters and elders of African music, such as late Mamady Keita, Famoudou Konate, Seydou Dao etc. 

Urška Preis is a musician and visual artist who also works as a curator and writer. As a harpist and composer, they perform as a soloist under alias rouge-ah, in the duo II/III, the fluid ensemble Zhlehtet and in the experimental quartet Sujevera. They build their artistic and creative strategy through distinct intermedial action, preferably in the interweaving of feminist theories and practices.

Barbara Poček is a member of the Čipka initiative and a former member of the DIY music collective Kikimore, where she started her approach to DIY analog instruments. She is also an amateur DJ and music enthusiast, director of The Glej Theater and a cultural producer.

Luka Seliškar is an astrophysicist in the body of an audio engineer. As a recording artist, producer and engineer, he collaborates with SBO, Lynch, Insan, Lovekovski, Klinci and others, and he most often takes up sound recording in the PRSA collective. He is not working on a solo album yet, but he is well on his way to becoming the Balkan Rick Rubin.

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WAQWAQ KINGDOM (JPN/GB)

Fun and unpredictable belters between traditional Japanese elements and contemporary electronics

WaqWaq Kingdom create a vibrant and unpredictable sonic world, blending traditional Japanese elements with contemporary electronics. Their music draws connections between Jamaican dancehall, 8-bit techno, African polyrhythms and experimental sound, forming a bold and colourful hybrid. WaqWaq Kingdom is the collaboration of Shigeru Ishihara (DJ Scotch Egg), known for his distinctive and boundary-pushing electronic work, and vocalist Kiki Hitomi (ex King Midas Sound, Dokkebi Q), whose voice, lyrics and visual art define the project’s unique identity.

Shigeru Ishihara – electronics
Kiki Hitomi – vocals

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BALMAINJEANS (GBR)

Haute couture DJ set of electronic artist Lolina / Inga Copeland

Balmainjeans is the DJ alter ego of electronic and digital musician Lolina – Alina Astrova, better known by the recording aliases Lolina and Inga Copeland – a Russian-Estonian experimental musician and singer living in London. Balmainjeans runs a club night in London called Distressd with previous DJ sets by Denesh, Yumi, Cõvco and Ship Sket. 
Some people who’ve been seen wearing Balmain jeans include Vanessa in Gossip Girl, Lindsay Lohan, 21 Savage and other Atlanta rappers, Estonian fashion models, Fergie and Lil Wayne.

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JOŠ GORI (CRO/SRB)

Još gori is a trio consisting of Aleksandar Stojković – ST (former frontman of the legendary band Goribor) and brothers Alen and Nenad Sinkauz. The new creative chapter after the last break from public and creative life represents an intertwining of poetry, rhythm and repetition, which builds a strong, emotionally charged expression. The voice and text are in the foreground, accompanied by an organic soundtrack of double bass, guitar and other elements. Their performances often proceed from calmer, almost narrative parts to stronger, more condensed moments of a unified flow of all. Još gori is not a continuation of the past, but a new chapter that works on a fresh and bold path without compromises.

Aleksandar Stojković ST – text, voice
Nenad Sinkauz – guitars, electronics, voice
Alen Sinkauz – double bass, pulsar 23

FILAMENTS OF EXISTENCE (ITA)

Slowrolling magnificence of sax-drum postrock

The Italian duo Filaments of Existence explore the rolling horizons of rock, progressive and electronic music through their interplay of drums and saxophone. With the clarity and directness of architects, drummer Camille Colleti and saxophonist Giorgio Giacobbi, draw out rhythmically savvy systems that fluctuate between the thunderous and crushing of the sound body and the calm and lightness of the saxophone’s exhalation.

Camilla Collet – drums, keys, pads
Giorgio Giacobbi – tenor sax, keys

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ETCETERAL (SLO)

Synesthetic adventure of futuristic jazz

Etceteral is an audiovisual trio that explores contemporary soundscapes through the interweaving of acoustic and electronic. These horizons are the sonic pulse of the future, polyrhythmically unpredictable, intense improvisations that pull the body into a synesthetic flow of synchronised sound and image.

At Sajeta, saxophonist and producer Boštjan Simon, drummer Marek Fakuč and visual artist Lina Rica present their third album Kimatika (Glitterbeat, 2025), in which restlessly breathing electronic sequences, thunderous baritone saxophone, playful percussive drumming and sharp synthesizer highs merge into a dense, multi-layered whole. Their sound is both precise and organic, structured and open. Etceteral are the announcers of a futuristic music for an open future.

Boštjan Simon – saxophone, electronics
Marek Fakuč – drums
Lina Rica – visuals

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GREEN MILK FROM THE PLANET ORANGE (JPN)

Catharsic progressive rock of Japanese explosives

Twenty-five years ago, the Tokyo grindcore scene was shaken by a trio that wanted to confront an emotionally cold world through passion and sound. Green Milk From The Planet Orange and its guitarist Dead K, drummer A and bassist Damo bring drama to the progressive-psychedelic aesthetic, maximizing the expressiveness of motoric rhythmics. Intense and angular performances strip the soft exterior of the musicians, so that the destructive impulse of punk jumps out into in the world. The masters of technical complexity and emotional effect are coming to Slovenia for the first time in their quarter-century-long history, on the wings of a fresh album, but with the same amount of explosive energy that has always subverted the isolated monotony of humanity.

dead k – gibson sg + agitation
A – drums
Damo – fender jazz bass ’73

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ABOP (CRO)

After is better than the party, but only with ABOP, a live electronic band fueled by rave music lineage

ABOP – The After is better than the party. 
Electronic band making a rave on the dancefloor without a DJ, but through five live musicians fueled by acid house, techno, krautrock and other early electronic music genres. The centerpiece of their music is the living drum machine, two exquisite drummers sharing a single drum kit, sitting opposite of each other and kicking in the same bass drum. Next to them, heavy bass lines and digital synths are driven on the mechanical motorway to the neon island of intensive, dancing psychedelia which they presented internationally, amongst others at EXIT, Dimensions, Terraneo, and OZORA. In 2025 they released their new album Masters of Afters (LAA) to wide acclaim and critical awards.

Ivan Levačić – drums
Ivan Vodopijec – drums
Erol Zejnilović – bass
Ivan Božanić – synths
Bogumil Kulaga – synths
Andrija Santro – light design 
Igor Ivankovic – sound design

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