ACID ANATOLIA FESTIVAL 2025
ENGIN + DERYA YILDIRIM + OH VOYAGE
DJ: Booty Carrell + Institute of Sounds
18.10.25 | 20:00 | Knust

Since day 1, the key idea of ACID ANATOLIA has been to connect different communities, both on a musical and human level. With our ACID ANATOLIA FEST we want to continue this approach - just one size bigger. On 18.10.25 we are celebrating the second edition at Knust with this fantastic lineup:

ENGIN:
After a sold-out show in May, ENGIN are going one better! The band fuses psychedelic pop with Anatolian rock and establishes a style that is unparalleled in Germany. We love the mixture of German-Turkish pop music, their versatile and honest lyrics, in which singer Engin Devekiran addresses alienation and reconciliation, beauty and dirt, the whole tragicomic life between the cultural areas. ENGIN is a wonderful fit for our festival, we think.

DERYA YILDIRIM:
No concert has touched us more in recent years than DERYA YILDIRIM's album release show in the large hall of the Elbphilharmonie, which we had the pleasure of organizing with her. We have been accompanying her on her musical journey for many years now and are delighted to see her perform once again in an intimate setting at the Knust. In her solo sets, Yıldırım devotes herself more to traditional Anatolian folk. With the Turkish lute bağlama and her multi-layered, resonant voice, she draws listeners into a world of melancholy sounds. Yıldırım constantly rearranges the rich Turkish poetry and takes it into the future without losing awareness of the past.

OH VOYAGE:
OH VOHAGE were also with us at the Knust earlier this year and simply tore it all away with their energetic performance! The duo from Istanbul now live in Rotterdam and Poznan. Their unique sound seamlessly combines electronic downtempo dance beats with organic Anatolian psychedelia, and their live performance with Middle Eastern instruments transforms the Knust into an undulating dance floor. We can't get enough of this!