saturday JUNE 08 | 16:00 ~ 17:00SUJEVERA
live performance
Sujevera ("superstition" in Serbian) are an unconventional quartet consisting of Ljubljana music scene mainstays Nina R. Orlić, Barbara Poček (both ex-Kikimore), Urška Preis and Luka Seliškar, who may not throw salt over their left shoulders before performances, but certainly conjure a supernatural feeling with their ritualistic music. Born from a collaborative residency in 2020 amidst the isolation and paranoia of the pandemic, these long acquainted artists with divergent musical backgrounds and approaches, combined their diverse battery of acoustic, electronic, and self-built instruments including effected harp, noise synths and objects, and computer, to produce a whirlwind of scorched drones, digital blast beats, and otherworldly melodies producing a sonic egregore with a mind of its own. Keep one eye open and don't look back ... Sujevera may manifest before you at any moment!
Their debut album was released in October 2024 by Kamizdat label.
Nina R. Orlić is a former member of the Kikimore collective. She contributed to their sound with her DIY instruments and knowledge of rhythm. Her musical experience derives from being a member of industrial collective The Stroj for 7 years, playing brazilian batucada in percussion group Sherzer Brigade and fascination with African traditional music, as she learned to play the jembe from the jembe masters and elders of African music, such as late Mamady Keita, Famoudou Konate, Seydou Dao etc.
Urška Preis is a musician and visual artist who also works as a curator and writer. As a harpist and composer, they perform as a soloist under alias rouge-ah, in the duo II/III, the fluid ensemble Zhlehtet and in the experimental quartet Sujevera. They build their artistic and creative strategy through distinct intermedial action, preferably in the interweaving of feminist theories and practices.
Barbara Poček is a member of the Čipka initiative and a former member of the DIY music collective Kikimore, where she started her approach to DIY analog instruments. She is also an amateur DJ and music enthusiast, director of The Glej Theater and a cultural producer.
Luka Seliškar is an astrophysicist in the body of an audio engineer. As a recording artist, producer and engineer, he collaborates with SBO, Lynch, Insan, Lovekovski, Klinci and others, and he most often takes up sound recording in the PRSA collective. He is not working on a solo album yet, but he is well on his way to becoming the Balkan Rick Rubin.
Their debut album was released in October 2024 by Kamizdat label.
Nina R. Orlić is a former member of the Kikimore collective. She contributed to their sound with her DIY instruments and knowledge of rhythm. Her musical experience derives from being a member of industrial collective The Stroj for 7 years, playing brazilian batucada in percussion group Sherzer Brigade and fascination with African traditional music, as she learned to play the jembe from the jembe masters and elders of African music, such as late Mamady Keita, Famoudou Konate, Seydou Dao etc.
Urška Preis is a musician and visual artist who also works as a curator and writer. As a harpist and composer, they perform as a soloist under alias rouge-ah, in the duo II/III, the fluid ensemble Zhlehtet and in the experimental quartet Sujevera. They build their artistic and creative strategy through distinct intermedial action, preferably in the interweaving of feminist theories and practices.
Barbara Poček is a member of the Čipka initiative and a former member of the DIY music collective Kikimore, where she started her approach to DIY analog instruments. She is also an amateur DJ and music enthusiast, director of The Glej Theater and a cultural producer.
Luka Seliškar is an astrophysicist in the body of an audio engineer. As a recording artist, producer and engineer, he collaborates with SBO, Lynch, Insan, Lovekovski, Klinci and others, and he most often takes up sound recording in the PRSA collective. He is not working on a solo album yet, but he is well on his way to becoming the Balkan Rick Rubin.