#Konzert

Lingua Ignota is the moniker of classically trained multi-instrumentalist, performance artist and singer Kristin Hayter. Her album SINNER GET READY is a disturbing portrait of rural Pennsylvania where abandon, sacrifice, betrayal, judgement and atrocious consequences are common. It’s a region where a particularly God-fearing form of Christianity prevails, and where Hayter had lived during the making of the album. Effortlessly, she arranges baroque folk, experimental drone and sacred music into one of last year’s most beautiful albums. It will be presented live in Germany for the first time at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in cooperation with CTM festival.

The PENNSYLVANIA FURNACE video was filmed and cut by Hayter herself. The eponymous song is about the inescapability of death and recalls the 18th-century legend of the ironmaster whose hounds rise from the dead just to drag him to hell after he had them burn to death in an outburst of anger. With SINNER GET READ, Hayter builds on the mythological realm she’s created with the predecessors CALIGULA and ALL BITCHES DIE as she simultaneously reassembles her own aesthetic language in innovative ways. Resisting the allure of industrial music and a multi-genre approach, she focuses on the production of distortion and dissonance using traditional instruments.

Midwife is the moniker of musician Madeline Johnston’s experimental pop project. A self-taught guitarist and professional audio engineer, Midwife arranges dark themes and stories into soft-gaze anthems. She describes her music as “heaven metal”, emotive music about eeriness and devastation.