More spirits rejoicing!
Here's the second wave for the 22nd OUT.FEST, and the shape of these four days of intense discovery is coming ever more clearly into focus. Between first-time encounters, guiding figures, new generations and futures in the making, the map keeps growing denser.
Let's begin with the inevitable: the first-ever meeting between Oren Ambarchi and Susana Santos Silva. Following a solo appearance in 2013 and a performance with Ghosted in 2024, Ambarchi returns to Barreiro for a dialogue centred around eternal music with a defining voice in contemporary European improvisation. Maggie Nicols, a true pioneer of Europe's free music tradition, makes her OUT.FEST debut with her disarming songs for voice and piano, while Karen Willems presents a delicate world where percussion, everyday objects, electronics and field recordings converge with remarkable sensitivity.
Among the many expressions of the unclassifiable, Carla dal Forno presents the luminous Confession’; Demdike Stare join Cherrystones for a journey through the subterranean layers of memory; JJJJJerome Ellis music traces the singular path he’s been carving out between sound, writing and the experience of time; Slikback and NikNak sketch new futures for global electronic music, while BLEID has quietly forged a language all her own within Portugal's contemporary dance music landscape.
This peripheral West is also where some of the most exciting new artistic languages are taking shape. Helviofox continues to reinvent the batida sound around the Príncipe orbit; Junkie Money bring together a creative community where trap, kuduro and shared imaginaries merge into an increasingly distinct collective identity; _farming explore repetition as fertile ground for transformation; sa🎀ra develops an intimate sonic-sculptural imaginary; Engrenagem Necrofilia turns raw noise into a rare kind of physical experience.
Completing this second announcement are Venezuela's Weed420, whose collision of perreo, electronics and popular culture has produced one of the most unpredictable musical propositions to emerge from Latin America in recent years, and the UK's Guttersnipe, because no celebration is ever complete without a purifying dose of more.
Just over 30 full festival passes remain available at the current price, granting access to all concerts announced so far. Once these sell out, the remaining passes will be made available at the final price. Day tickets will be released alongside our next, and final, programme announcement, coming very soon.