In the organizer's words:

Persian pop of the 60s/70s

Memory can dance. In the melodies of Persian pop from the 60s and 70s, a song becomes memory, memory becomes movement. And sometimes only dance carries what language can no longer grasp.

A few years ago, through Booty Carrell's music sets, I understood that liberation begins with listening again. That a song that once sounded only to itself can become a shared song in a room full of people. That you can dance to the same tunes you once lingered in silence to, cried to or mourned to - and that every step on the floor is an act of remembrance and resistance.

Vinyl Memories - Dancing the Unspoken brings music and dance together - dance that translates grief, loss and memory into movement, that makes the unspeakable tangible. Nostalgia, political reflection and performative presence are combined here - a moment in which sound, body and community become a practice of freedom in which it becomes tangible that memory remains alive.

Text: Maryam Palizban

Booty Carrell curates a DJ set that makes the stories of time tangible: performative, political, poetic. Participants dance, listen, feel - and experience how collective memory, personal grief and hope flow into one another.

Booty Carrell, alias Sebastian Reier, is a Munich-based DJ, music mediator and event organizer who has made a name for himself as a vinyl archaeologist. His focus is on the Persian pop of the 60s and 70s - a music scene that was female-dominated, combining the poetic roots of Persian poetry with irregular 6/8 rhythms and the global sounds of rock and pop. Suppressed by repression or forced into exile, this music lives on in his sets - as memory, resistance and hope at the same time. He designs curatorial music programs, including at the Münchner Kammerspiele, and hosts the radio show Groovie Shizzl on ByteFM. International appearances have taken him to Thailand, Pakistan, Turkey and across Europe. In addition to his DJ work, he is an author and radio producer for DIE ZEIT, WDR and ByteFM. His motto "Making Global Sound Local" describes his practice of translating global music traditions into local, tangible experiences.

Part of the program of:
3 DAYS TO LIBERATION II
(statement and program)
December 12-14, 2025
Conceived & curated by Maryam Palizban
Presented by CONSTANZA MACRAS / DORKY PARK