PHRE: Bashar Murad + Vandalisbin + Santitali + Chedi

In the organizer's words:

This is not a World Music Festival! This is PHRE

With the PHRE-Pass you can attend 5 concerts of our PHRE Festival for 40 €!

Bashar Murad (Palestine)

Bashar Murad is a Palestinian pop artist, singer/songwriter and filmmaker who produces globally influenced pop music rooted in the Palestinian spirit. His music challenges stereotypes and highlights social issues faced by Palestinian youth that are rarely addressed in Palestine, such as living under occupation and in patriarchal conditions. His music and his work also deal with gender equality and gender diversity. Whether he is performing in a wedding dress or singing about gender diversity, Bashar is always taking risks and expanding his critical thinking. As a Palestinian living in Jerusalem, he constantly challenges some of the patriarchal elements of the society around him.

Vandalisbin (Munich)

In 2018, Helena Niederstraßer sang songs by AnnenMayKantereit at Munich's Stachus with an acoustic guitar in the snow. Five years have passed since then, she has successfully completed her drum studies at the Jazz School and now plays drums for up-and-coming newcomers, including ENNIO. Before that, she spent six months playing street music throughout Europe.

As VANDALISBIN (Vandalism + Lesbian), Helena Niederstraßer writes songs, programmatically in the field of tension between queer sexuality, love, violence and self-empowerment. The trials and tribulations of her young life are impressively reflected in them, as in a lucid shadow play in the cleaning light of an unknown club. Raw and oppressively beautiful poetry, inspired by contemporary rap and timeless classics such as Hildegard Knef, Nina Simone and Rio Reiser. Performed in her unmistakable voice, which sounds as if Helena has the soul of a 50-year-old bouncer in her throat: she unerringly delivers poetic images and hooks, punchlines in the truest sense of the word. She delicately balances her diverse influences from Eryka Badu, Nirvana, Bilderbuch and Isolation Berlin to create a spiky neo-soul, with a blues note in the performance and plenty of wit between the lines. Whether on piano, guitar, bass or drums: the 21-year-old writes her observations from her soul in a way that mesmerizes. Perhaps also because as a human being you instinctively recognize when experiences are shared and not just made up stories. "Based on a true story" is the working title of her first album.

Chedi Bakkari (Tunisia, MUC)

Chedi is an enthusiastic dancer, house DJ and bartender at Import Export. Born and raised in Tunisia, he was surrounded by multicultural and diverse music. He is a fan of North African Folk, Funk and Afro and will be playing his favorite music.