In the organizer's words:

21:00 Growlers Choir "Inside the Roar"

21:30 Nataša Grujović and Steve Moore

22:20 Earth

Once-inexorable riffs splintered across distortion, Dylan Carlson's Earth have stretched outward over the decades to encompass minimalist doom, ambient country, avant-garde folk and psychedelic rock into their time-warpage, a flagrant dismissal of genre that keeps Carlson's brooding guitar at the center. Embracing improvisation, each performance from the legendary rock innovators is a mirage-map, songs blossoming to collapse inward before reconstituting into heaving new shapes. Recent works have found Carlson paring back effects to focus on repetition, space, and texture rather than volume alone: savage calms and luminous drifts here dominate. These changes manifest live as meditative expanses broken by bursts of excoriated power, suspended in a dust-flavored aspic of desert twilight.

For this opening concert of CTM Festiival 2026, the band will be performing their 2005 album Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method in full.

Nataša Grujović and Steve Moore wield accordion, analogue synthetics and trombone to shape resonant fields that breathe within the rooms they inhabit: waves of tone that move between ritualized drone, spiritual jazz, and the echoes of Western classical forms in which resonance reigns suspended between the tangible and the transcendental. Serbian-born artist Grujović has long explored the physical presence of sound through performance and composition, tracing its material shimmer across Europe's experimental stages - from Venice Biennale's Luxembourg Pavilion to Donaueschingen's Off-Festival and Belgrade's Ring Ring. Moore, a Seattle-born trombonist, pianist, and composer, brings decades of harmonic inquiry from his work with Sufjan Stevens, Neko Case, and Bill Frisell to his enduring roles in Earth and Sunn O))).

The night opens with "Inside the Roar" by Growlers Choir, an immersive sound piece and live performance for an ensemble of heavy-metal vocalists. Through ten vocal textures repeated and transformed across four sequences, the work reveals the unexpected delicacy, power, and mutating richness of growled voice.