CLANDESTINO FESTIVAL

It begins with a Dj-set encompassing a spectrum of 60 – and 70-century retro. Everything from hybrid-pop, rock, Public beat, Yeh-Yeh, go-go, freak beat, psychedelic surf and different styles of music from North Africa, Middle East and Southeast Asia will boom from the speakers. Behind the turntables stand Mark Gergis and Alan Bishop. Next, two legendary groups take the stage. One group, called Omar Souleyman, is from Syria. The other is called Group Doueh and has traveled to Gothenburg from the Western Sahara. They perform a concert each within the framework of the European tour of American record label Sublime Frequencies. What they have in common is playing music that is rarely heard at festivals filtered by the academic committees of the world. It is music that belongs to street life. It is unpolished, not really complicated, but extremely rich in dimensions that seep through already at a first listening.