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long lost Cellar Rock
Get your ears out of your ass and hop on board of our gherkin Battleship "Spreewalder Gurke"!

Yasmine Hamdan first made waves in the music scene with the pioneering Beirut indie electronic duo Soapkills, which she co-founded with Zeid Hamdan in the late 1990s. 

Having moved to Paris in 2005, Yasmine collaborated with Madonna producer Mirwais for the Y.A.S. project, releasing the sleeky clubby Arabology album on Universal in 2009. Since then, she has earned international acclaim as a solo singer-songwriter and producer, elegantly entwining far-ranging elements, from pan-Arabic roots and pop and poetic lyrics, to electronica, soul and guitar melodies. Yasmine has collaborated with filmmakers such as Elia Suleiman, Jim Jarmusch, and has toured globally in support of her albums Ya Nass (2013) and Al Jamilat (2017). 

Her upcoming third album is scheduled for worldwide release in September 2025 on Crammed Discs/ [PIAS].

Photo : Ylias Nao

STRAIGHT FORWARD / PUNK’N’ROLL / SHIN KICK

After having played their hearts out in all kinds of shabby and run-down basements, barely accessible ramshackle huts, living rooms of hopelessly crowded shared flats, Here Hare Here from Bern has finally earned their stripes.

Lots of blood, sweat, guitars and nerves were sacrificed in order to weld the raw and explosive sound of Here Hare Here, and apart from a few old-time punks and drunk concert-goers, a few more people seem to have taken pleasure in the unusual band. On stage, the unstoppable punky Rock’n Roll Train deliberately steams its way towards the cliffs. Without collateral damage and losses there’s nothing to be gained from Here Hare Here. Whooping it up as if there is no tomorrow is their brachial motto. Or maybe there really is no tomorrow? Fuck it!

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(translated by Joanna Kvale)

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