site.btaSofia Underground Festival to Take Place between April 23 and 27

The Sofia Underground Festival will return between April 23 and 27 for its twenty-first edition, the organizers said.

Loke Rahbek (Denmark) will join the festival programme with his project Croatian Amor. Since 2009, the co-founder of the now-defunct Danish record label and store Posh Isolation has been active on the European electronic music scene with various projects (Damien Dubrovnik, Body Sculptures, Croatian Amor) and often collaborates with some of the biggest names in the Nordic alternative music scene. Croatian Amor will play on the stage of the Pave club. He will be joined by Born Erased, a project by Angel Simitchiev (AMEK).

On the second day of the festival, Diana Bunkin’s curatorial project Svetla Staya will be presented at the Bobbina cultural space. The exhibition aims to illustrate female sexuality in a broader context, as a counterpoint to the endless sexualizing body exhibitions presented in recent years.

Aya presents her new album Hexed, together with Serbian DJ Saud, who has performed at festivals and venues such as Nyege Nyege Festival, Boiler Room Belgrade, Mkalles Warehouse Beirut, as well as local names such as Fal$e, Bezdaren, Сccvvv, Alkemist and Stefmino.

Guest artists include Paul Regan (Ireland), Satadru Sovan (India), Lyllie Rouviere (Germany), Flavio Rodriguez (Portugal), Marianne Marcote (Ireland), Liu Xue (Germany), Alexander Zamyarsky (UK) and Viktoria Nikolova (Netherlands), Polina Masevnina (Czechia/Russia), Yulia Shumilova (Ukraine), Stela Gocheva (Netherlands).

So far, Bulgarian participants include Georgi Pavlov, Diana Bunkin, Kris Metodieva, Yves-Christian Angelov, Viliyana Karushkova, Laura Begler, HexPixie, Sibylla Seraphim, NxMx, The MagWomb, Sveta Atanasova, Rawlab, Kamelia and Anjelika Davidkovi, Damyana Velkova.

Sofia Underground is organized and curated by Studio Dauhaus and Synaesthesia Collective. It was created in 1997 by critic and curator Ruen Ruenov (1958-2011) as a series of performances developing in a long happening in the basement of the National Palace of Culture. Over time, Sofia Underground has transformed into an international forum.