Closing Concert

04th Feb 2024 04th Feb 2024 20:00 22:00

Petra Hermanova – »In Death’s Eyes»

21:00

Aïsha Devi – »Les Immortelles«

22:00

Volksbühne26 / 22 €

sold out

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    SE

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  • Poly Chain

    UA

    Discovering synths while in a post-high school shoegaze band helped build the  foundations of the Ukrainian artist becoming one of the leading figures in Kyiv’s contemporary club renaissance.

    • Photo: Cristian Andersson

    The festival’s closing concert at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platztheatre will feature festival favourite Aïsha Devi whowill return to CTM in support of new album Death is Home on Houndstooth, her first LP since 2018 and what the artist has voiced is her most personal work yet. Harnessing timeless frequencies, Devi channels crystalline HD bass motifs and weightless vocals in a sonic manifesto towards healing and forging a path for an alternate, more hospitable reality beyond the human condition. Devi will close out the festival in a world premiere live performance with engrossing scenography.

    Petra Hermanova’s new release, In Death’s Eyes, combines folk and sacred musical technique and instrumentation which drift between song and heavy distorted drones. Performing on autoharp and voice, the SHAPE+ supported artist, will be accompanied by Jon Eirik Boska (percussion and voice) and the organist Elizaveta Suslova as they perform material from the album. To Hermanova, religious music offers spiritual solace from grief, but folk speaks to the human and earthly as told by the individual, through songs of suffering or joy, sin or salvation. With lyrics riddled with symbolism and allusion and contrasting the affordable and easy-to-master autoharp with the gargantuan organ reserved for skilled performers, »In Death’s Eyes« blends and contrasts the sounds of transcendence with the worldly, poignantly expressing Hermanova’s struggle for spiritual resolution against the reality of death and loss.

    Event Access

    Warning: This show will take place with loud volumes and may include stroboscopic lighting effects. Please consult our Accessibility section for an overview on volume / lighting, and information on mobility, age restrictions and other access information.

    Petra Hermanova is supported by SHAPE+ which is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.