Another exciting booking for this year’s festival excursion Clandestino Botnik, 27 to 28 July: An icon of the Arab underground music, with a phenomenal new solo album on Crammed Discs.

Yasmine Hamdan is a singer, songwriter and actress of Lebanese descent, currently based in Paris. She rose to fame with the duo Soapkills while she still lived in Beirut. The band quickly became a soundtrack for the young art scene in postwar Lebanon, and today Yasmine is an undergound icon in the Arab world. Two of her songs were featured in the award winning film “Divine Intervention” by director Elia Suleiman. | Read more