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PHRE Festival presents Kallemi and Meral Polat for a night between raw live energy, global narratives, psychedelic rock and powerful voices. Kallemi was founded in 2018 by Jasmin Albash, La Nefera, Maysa Daw and Rasha Nahas as a collaborative project among musicians from Switzerland, the Dominican Republic and Palestine. Their music moves between hip-hop, indie, electronic sounds and global influences, creating a powerful, genre-crossing sound that can be heard between Basel, Ramallah, Haifa and Berlin. Meral Polat is a Dutch singer with Turkish-Kurdish roots. Her music combines 1970s Anatolian psychedelic music with Kurdish dengbêj storytelling, moving between folk, psychedelic rock and experimental sounds. With her band she creates driving rhythms, retro-organic textures and electric guitar lines carried by a voice that shifts between tenderness, longing and fearsome determination.