PHRE: SANAM + Prohibition Prohibition

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 €!

SANAM (Lebanon)

"Beirut group Sanam's debut album comes to life with its blend of low-pitched guitar jams, industrial drums and earthy vocals - a haunting collection of dark and expansive textures" - The Guardian

Emerging from Beirut's independent music scene, Sanam's music is a ritual where improvised rock, free jazz and noise underpin an exorcism of traditional Egyptian songs and Arabic poetry. On their debut album "Aykathani Malakonthey", they combine regional and local folklore and poetry with experimental forms of instrumental music forming the core. As Chamoun emphasizes, the poems and lyrics of the album represent "a collective call to escape from a hallucinatory state induced by love, but also by the mysteries of life itself.

Prohibition Prohibition (Munich)

The four young musicians behind Prohibition Prohibition walk a fine line with their music between threatening apparent silence and loss of control - and in their own way deal with the somewhat diffuse term "post-punk". Drums and bass form the engine of the songs, and rarely have to choose between brute force and complexity. Guitar sounds between sterility and unrecognizability hover above, below and in between. Literary fragments, philosophical and historical impressions create their lyrics, which are sometimes coolly narrated, then again as desperate cries for help above it all. A shared understanding of the aesthetics of noise keeps audience and band caught between trance and mosh pits - an appropriate expression for a world coming apart at the seams.