Phurpa, Mare Di Dirac, Aekre Lärm at Hangar 49 / Friday, 15.07.2016

Phurpa is a Russian musical collective and performance group, recording and playing authentic ritual music of Bon, the oldest Buddhist tradition from Tibet, using ritual instruments and special tantric singing technique.

Phurpa is a Russian musical collective and performance group, recording and playing authentic ritual music of Bon, the oldest Buddhist tradition from Tibet, using ritual instruments and special tantric singing technique.

Phurpa was formed in 2003, and the project is named after Phurpa Drugse Chempa (phur pa ‚brug gsas chem pa), one of the five tutelary deities of the Father Tantra in Bon tradition (this unique deity has a lower part of his body shaped in a form of phurpa, or kīla, three-edged peg/knife, widely used in tantric Buddhist rituals).

Mare di Dirac is a project founded in 2009 by two italians experimental sound artists; Lorenzo Abattoir (aka Nascitari), member of various kinds of projects within the noise scene (Wuornos Aileen / Psicopompo) & Luca Poseitrone, who plays ethnical instruments and analog eletronics.

Aekre Lärm is an Drone project born in Berlin. Members are Aekre (Concrete Cosmos) and Giuseppe Capriglione (Metzger Therapie). The drone is the principal sound element. Processing and working with it, a complex and particular sound is created.

Friday, 15th July 2016 | 19:00 CET
Hangar 49 | Holzmarktstr. 15 – 18 | 10179 Berlin/Mitte