Doors: 19:00 CTM festival’s closing concert at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz theatre will feature festival favourite Aïsha Devi who will return to CTM in support of new album Death is Home on Houndstooth, her first LP since 2018 and what the artist has voiced is her most personal work yet. Harnessing timeless frequencies, Devi channels crystalline HD bass motifs and weightless vocals in a sonic manifesto towards healing and forging a path for an alternate, more hospitable reality beyond the human condition. Devi will close out the festival in a world premiere live performance with engrossing scenography. Petra Hermanova’s new release, In Death’s Eyes, combines folk and sacred musical technique and instrumentation which drift between song and heavy distorted drones. Performing on autoharp and voice, the SHAPE+ supported artist, will be accompanied by Jon Eirik Boska (percussion and voice) and the organist Elizaveta Suslova as they perform material from the album. To Hermanova, religious music offers spiritual solace from grief, but folk speaks to the human and earthly as told by the individual, through songs of suffering or joy, sin or salvation. With lyrics riddled with symbolism and allusion and contrasting the affordable and easy-to-master autoharp with the gargantuan organ reserved for skilled performers, »In Death’s Eyes« blends and contrasts the sounds of transcendence with the worldly, poignantly expressing Hermanova’s struggle for spiritual resolution against the reality of death and loss. Part of CTM Festival 2024 – Sustain www.ctm-festival.de