Lujo Asiático / Segundo Bercetche

Argentine musician and filmmaker Segundo Bercetche is a guest at the Summer Festival with two projects at once: With his Buenos Aires-based band Lujo Asiático, which has already released 3 albums and will play its latest album «After Ashram” in 3 happenings at Fleetstreet Theater with local support. The album follows the traces of Brian Eno's 70s ambient phase and spans a large musical world arc of sitar, saxophone, synthesizers, vocals, as well as sounds of the Atlantic Ocean with the rivers of the province of Córdoba. The ritual performance FEED THE RIVER is the second work Bercetche who already spent two months in Hamburg in 2021 as a Fleetstreet resident, will present with Hamburg artists Paul Speckmann, Louis d’Heudieres, Don Jegosah, Ingrid Hoelzl and Ariel Schlichter. Together they explore the interplay of music, animism and the Pachamama sacrifice – an Andean ceremony of gratitude to Mother Earth in which wine, tobacco and other goods are offered to the land. The canals around Fleetstreet serve not only as a sound medium, but also as an animistic creature to which the music is fed as a symbolic offering – the sounds produced change along the canal, this creates a ritual performance for the audience and opens up new perspectives on the city, the water and the music.