Secolare Festival

Are you familiar with future nostalgia? We talk about the crisis of the present and hope for what positive things will come. If you understand and feel the concept, we want to give it to you a radiant light: the most pleasant and fun noise in all of Anatolia is ready to land in our secret garden. Lalalar use this very expression to describe themselves on their website and it seems fitting to us: how liberating can it be to wriggle to the rhythm of Turkish litanies dirtied by powerful beats and pulsating guitars?

Born as a live band in 2019, it took them three years to create their debut album in a brainstorming of frenetic concerts and frenetic mosh pits. A slow cooking of the songs (as defined by themselves) which led to a groove as intoxicating as the scent of Near Eastern spices. translates with the Latin expression “a spark is enough to light the fire”: from Lucretius to Dante, it is a proverb that historically proves to be a harbinger of impulses of passion.

A flame that fully blazes in their second and recent album, ̈̈ (2023, Bongo Joe): the sounds become more post punk, the climaxes of the pieces more overwhelming but the atmospheres remain unmistakable. The chaos and contrasting colors of Istanbul become lustful music. If the temperature under the stage rises, it won’t just be August’s fault.