
Located on the edge of Geneva’s old town, the Alhambra has been part of the city’s cultural landscape since its establishment in 1920. It primarily serves as a venue for contemporary music events, organized by private entities and non-profit associations. The venue also hosts concerts and events during Geneva’s many festivals, offering a diverse range of musical performances.
Óliver Laxe and David Letellier (Kangding Ray) present a live transposition of Sirāt, blending film sequences and rushes with propulsive, immersive sound to create a club-like audiovisual environment. The performance folds cinema into live music, privileging texture, rhythm and spatial immersion over linear narrative. Opening set by Jo Johnson introduces ambient, cinematic and meditative tones that ease listeners into a contemplative yet physical experience. The project foregrounds collaboration between filmmaker and sound artist.
Led since the late 1970s by the unclassifiable Keiji Haino, Fushitsusha is a trio that obliterates the boundary between rock, psychedelia, improvisation and noise. Their concerts are seismic ritual: guitars rumble, bass carves the ground and drums hurl the music into unpredictable motion, shifting between electric trance and controlled chaos. Over decades they have forged a radical, physical sound where tension builds until it swallows the space, offering an intense, immersive encounter with underground Japanese experimental music.
Uli M. Schueppel’s 1987 debut feature plunges into an apocalyptic nocturne of despair, mysticism and a stark Berlin underground aesthetic. Rendered in raw, expressionistic images, the film follows fragmented lives on the edge of collapse, blending documentary grit with poetic surrealism. Alexander Hacke’s original score—rooted in industrial textures and haunting melodies—underscores the film’s hypnotic atmosphere; his live re-creation heightens the visceral drama and the work’s otherworldly intensity.
Led by musical director Horacio Salinas, Inti-Illimani Histórico revisits a five-decade legacy of Latin American song with layered melodies and precise ensemble interplay. Joined by José Seves and Horacio Durán, the group blends folk traditions, instrumental virtuosity and poetic arrangement, moving between intimate refrains and sweeping, communal choruses. The music evokes memory and collective dreams, built from acoustic textures and resilient rhythms that travel across cultures, creating an immersive, reflective soundworld.
Multi-instrumentalist and singer Âpe Chimba crafts immersive concerts that open spaces of perception, connection and inner movement. He blends shamanic chants, indigenous folk melodies and hypnotic rhythms with a refined contemporary sound, weaving traditional chants, Spanish-language songs and ancient instruments with singular frequencies into a rich sonic tapestry. Performances unfold like living journeys—alternating silence and pulsation, intimate introspection and collective presence—where texture, rhythm and resonance invite deep listening and bodily response, creating a meditative, trance-tinged atmosphere.
Yasmine Hamdan performs a set that folds pan-Arab traditions into contemporary electro-pop, where her intimate, smoky voice drifts between poetic lyricism and rhythmic propulsion. A singer-songwriter and producer who emerged with Beirut’s pioneering duo Soapkills and later collaborated with Mirwais, she blends soul, guitar-driven motifs and electronic textures. Her work with filmmakers like Elia Suleiman and Jim Jarmusch underscores its cinematic quality. The evening promises a meditative yet urgent soundscape that navigates memory, longing and tenderness.
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