MUSIC: medukha x Kutay Sezginel x Shiraz Ensemble
Fri, Jun 27
|Le Mondo
Eastern European psych-rock, Anatolian electronic, and Iranian folk-fusion await you with this night of music from Philadelphia and Baltimore acts!
Time & Location
Jun 27, 2025, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
Le Mondo, 406 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
About The Event
Join us for a exciting evening of folk-fused sounds taking inspiration from musical tradition ranging widely from Eastern European to Iranian to Anatolian this Friday, June 27th!
Doors at 7:30PM, Show at 8PM. Tickets $15 | $20 Day-of Learn more below!
ABOUT MEDUKHA
Steep the antics of a rock band into a pitcher of third culture confusion. Add Polish and Ukrainian folk melodies to taste.
medukha uses ethnographic recordings, tokens of our homelands, the languages we've grown up with, and the folk music conventions we've been exposed to as an emotive vehicle for interrogating the immigrant experience: a wedding song from Southeastern Poland with patriarchal undertones becomes a curbside conversation with a bird, a Ukrainian spring song is fractured into an unrecognizable ambient soundscape, a song with disputed origins becomes fertile ground for a new language.
medukha's music resolves the following contradictions without effort: grief and playfulness, historical depth and currency, professionalism and vulnerability, bedroom lo-fi and Eastern European folk. To anyone with Eastern European heritage who is alive in today's culturally ambiguous globalized world, this music is especially healing.
-Matt Genkin (You Want Milk, Rhymes with Orange)
LISTEN
Debut album out now: https://medukha.bandcamp.com/
ABOUT KUTAY SEZGINAL
Sezginel’s music explores the intertwined nature of tradition and innovation. Rooted in the rich heritage of Anatolian folk music and inspired by psychedelic rock, dark ambient and krautrock, he creates cosmic soundscapes layered with microtonal cultural motifs and odd time signatures. With neo-ethnic instruments like the çağlama and the electric cümbüş as his narrators, he creates stories of imaginative realms with memories of the past. His work is always evolving and reshaping itself through the spontaneity and energy of live performances.
ABOUT SHIRAZ ENSEMBLE
Shiraz Ensemble is a contemporary music group that unites Iranian musicians performing traditional instruments in the United States. Our mission is to deconstruct and reconstruct the rich traditions of Iranian classical music, transforming them into new forms through contemporary composition techniques. We collaborate with artists from diverse cultures to create unique cross-cultural musical experiences, explore new artistic territories, and build bridges through music and art. We strive to blend innovation and tradition, pushing the boundaries of Iranian music while honoring its cultural heritage.