OMAR SOULEYMAN, ŸUMA, SELIN SÜMBÜLTEPE, ROSHÂNI, ZEEMUFFIN, REY&KJAVIK, İPEK İPEKÇİOĞLU, AND MORE…
JULY 26, 2025
ROTE FABRIK, ZURICH
Our summer festival brings the best from the Silk Road and beyond. This time we’re hosting the legendary Syrian dabke-techno king Omar Souleyman, Tunisian duo Ÿuma, farsi and cumbia psychedelic tunes from Swiss-Iranian-Moroccan-Bulgarian group Roshâni, Selin Sümbültepe from Turkey, many producers and Djs, such as American-Pakistani Zeemuffin, German Rey&Kjavik, the lovely İpek İpekçioğlu, music workshops (string instruments, percussion, djing), visual sonic lectures, live concerts, and more. Buckle up!
Omar Souleyman, photo credit Shobee Elhelymy
Omar Souleyman, photo credit Shobee Elhelymy
Selin Sümbültepe, photo credit Shobee Elhelymy
Djing workshop with Zeemuffin, photo credit Shobee Elhelymy
Ÿuma the Duo, photo credit Shobee Elhelymy
Alp Olivier Yorulmaz, photo credit Shobee Elhelymy
Roshâni, photo credit Shobee Elhelymy
jazzhane festival 2025, photo credit Dodi
Rey&Kjavik, photo credit Shobee Elhelymy
Zeemuffin, photo credit Shobee Elhelymy
Carl Åhnebrink FLEE Records, photo credit Dodi
Zeemuffin and Moruk Funk, photo credit Shobee Elhelymy
Moruk Funk, photo credit Shobee Elhelymy
Zeemuffin, photo credit Shobee Elhelymy
İpek İpekçioğlu, photo credit Shobee Elhelymy
Instruments from the silk road, photo credit Shobee Elhelymy
İpek İpekçioğlu, photo credit Shoby Elhelymy
İpek İpekçioğlu, photo credit Shobee Elhelymy
Selin Sümbültepe, photo credit Shobee Elhelymy
Dodi
Yunus Findus, Dodi
Roshâni, photo credit Shoby Elhelymy
Zeemuffin, photo credit Shoby Elhelymy
Omar Souleyman, photo credit Dodi
Omar Souleyman, photo credit Dodi
Omar Souleyman, photo credit Dodi
İpek İpekçioğlu Djing Workshop, photo credit Shobee Elhelymy
Alp Olivier Yorulmaz, String Instruments from the Silk Road, photo credit Shobee Elhelymy
WORKSHOPS
12:00 - 14.00
String instruments from the Silk Road for adults with Alp Olivier Yorulmaz
Djing for kids with İpek İpekçioğlu
14.00 - 16.00
String instruments from the Silk Road for kids with Alp Olivier Yorulmaz
Djing for adults with Zeemuffin
16.00 - 17.00 16:30 - 17:30
Soundtalk with Carl Åhnebrink from FLEE Records
FESTIVAL PROGRAM
We believe our festival to be an integral experience, including the music workshops, soundtalks, live concerts, and afterparties. We have decided not to communicate the set times in advance. You will receive more detailed information once you arrive at the festival site.
LIVE CONCERTS AT CLUB STAGE FROM 17:00 TO 23:00
Roshâni
Ÿuma
Selin Sümbültepe
Omar Souleyman
LISTENING SESSIONS, DJ SETS, AND AFTERPARTY AT ZIEGEL FROM 17:00 TO 03:00
Yunus Findus
Mireille Minty
Rey&Kjavik
AFTERPARTIES AT CLUB STAGE FROM 23:00 TO 05:00
İpek İpekçioğlu
Moruk Funk
Zeemuffin
ARTISTS
OMAR SOULEYMAN
Most of us are very familiar with Omar Souleyman’s music; in fact, we have danced to similar fast-paced and synth-heavy songs at our family members’ weddings in the past. Yet, to pigeonhole Omar as a wedding singer is reductive. His ear for contrasting sounds, and his ability to bring joy, allow us to escape into his work. After more than 10 years, the dabke-techno king is back in Zurich and more passionate than ever.
Omar Souleyman’s 5th studio album pays homage to Erbil — the city in Iraq that offered solace and embraced Souleyman during recent times. The move to Erbil came with new experiences and friendships best celebrated in joyous songs dedicated to a new life-chapter. Erbil’s 8 tracks see the Syrian wedding singer turned global electronic music icon again, teaming up with his longtime keyboard player Hasan Jamo for an ambitious and forward-thinking techno-meets-Dabke sound.
The past several years have seen Omar Souleyman receive the GQ Middle East ‘Men of the Year’ award in 2022, noted massive live performances around the globe. Omar, who has collaborated with Björk and Four Tet, began his career as a prolific wedding singer, releasing nearly 500 live albums before civil war broke out in his native Syria in 2011. He then moved to Turkey and in 2013 released his Four Tet-produced debut studio album Wenu Wenu via Ribbon/Domino, which NPR called "...a jam so visceral, thrilling and intense as to make the mysterious matter of earthly borders seem hardly worth the time to contemplate."
ŸUMA
Ÿuma is a Tunisian global and alternative music duo, consisting of Chupee Do and Ramy Zoghlemi. Their collaboration is rooted in a deep friendship and a shared passion for blending genres such as folk, rock, trip hop, and global sounds.
Ÿuma’s debut album, Chura, released in March 2016, showcases this eclectic mix and features "Smek" as one of its standout tracks. Characterized by delicate and rough textures, the song blends traditional Tunisian influences with modern alternative tunes. Chupee and Ramy’s songwriting often explores strength and vulnerability. In Smek, they tell stories of (be)longing and nostalgia for trusted spaces at home, in their neighbourhoods, missing the smells of jasmin.
Rey&Kjavik, who is joining us this summer, released a downtempo remix of Smek back in 2017; in 2021, Ricardo Villalobos produced a remix with his idiosyncratic style.
For those of you who have been with us since day one, you’ll remember Ÿuma to be feautured on our playlists and stories. We are incredibly happy that the duo will join us this summer!
SELIN SÜMBÜLTEPE
Selin Sümbültepe, from Hatay in Southeastern Turkey, is an independent artist with two studio albums and several singles. Her debut album, "Cızgan", was released in 2017, followed by "Ben Estim Sen Esme" (2021). In 2024, she released the EP "Hemhal" (meaning "to unite" in English), produced by Zeid Hamdan, as a tribute to the culture of Hatay, which was severely affected by an earthquake in 2023.
Inspired by artists such as Fairuz, Yasmin Hamdan, Naïssam Jalal, Bariş Manço, and Aysel Gürel, she blends Middle Eastern sounds with Western influences. With her Fusion Folk Pop, she has performed at renowned festivals such as the Istanbul Caz Festival and has been featured in the Turkish media as well as on BBC's The Arts Hour.
ROSHÂNI
ROSHÂNI is a bold blend of diverse musical genres, including tropical, psychedelic cumbia, rock, and oriental disco, sung in Spanish, Farsi, and French. Their unique fusion creates an alternative organic electronic dance sound, incorporating elements of afro-dancehall and tropical beats, with rhythms ranging from cumbia to reggaeton. Led by Roxane's distinctive vocals and Inès's synthesizers and deep bass, accompanied by Yavor Lilov on drums and production, ROSHÂNI sets a captivating cosmic rhythm that compels the audience to dance.
ALMA DE BAILE presents a collection of 7 tracks that reflect the personalities and diverse music influences of Roxane and Inès. Dynamic and profound, each track weaves a mosaic of stories in various languages, celebrating themes of joy, rhythm, love, female empowerment, and independence. Recorded at the studio "La Fonderie," this EP is a collaborative effort with musicians from l’Eclair, including Yavor and Stefan Lilov, adding depth and richness to the sound.
ZEEMUFFIN
Born Zainab Hasnain, ZEEMUFFIN is a Pakistani-born, New York-raised DJ and producer. Her foundation in music started as a classically trained violist and dancer. ZEEMUFFIN's approach to DJing has been heavily influenced by her Pakistani heritage and the multicultural makeup of New York City, making her a musically diverse crowd favorite DJ. Her sets often seamlessly blend global sounds and genres from her New York Hip-hop roots to Afrobeats, Baile-funk to Bhangra, and through House and Dance music from around the world. Known for her infectious stage presence and ability to connect with any crowd, her talents have taken her around the world to perform alongside renowned artists like Kaytranada, Duckwrth, Ali Sethi, and Raf Saperra. She has also graced festival stages for Governors Ball and Afro Punk to name a few. Profiled in Vogue and Huffington Post as a tastemaker, her genre-bending remixes and blends have been played by DJs worldwide and featured on BBC Radio, Rinse FM, and Lot Radio.
REY&KJAVIK
Alexander Schomann, better known as Rey&Kjavik, is a DJ and producer from Offenbach, Germany. Listening to his music, one escapes into a world of harmonious blends of organic, deep, and tech house tunes. Inspired by his journeys to Istanbul and San Francisco, Alex’s understanding of musical motifs from the Silk Road and beyond is evident in many of his productions and remixes. His work is characterized by a unique interplay of melancholy and happiness, featuring deep bass and often dark tunes that harmonize with joyful ones. A bittersweet feeling (some might call it saudade), most of us remember from memories of the Mediterranean, Anatolia, the Levant, Southeast Asia, or Latin America.
İPEK İPEKÇİOĞLU
Based between Berlin and Istanbul, DJ, producer, curator, queer-activist, İpek İpekçioğlu creates an extraordinarily warm, dynamic, and organic interpretation of electronic music as nu-disco, house, deep house, tech house, and minimal techno. Her music melts with the melodramatic sound of Anatolia, Orient and the Middle East and she has been pushing boundaries within the ethnic and electronic music scene for more than a decade.
The Berliner Label Katermukke released her track «Uyan Uyan, Wake up», which led the Beatport charts for several months as the most successful track. She released Bir çift Turna and Gelme Bana at Epic Istanbul/Sony Music. Her remix of Selda Bagcan’s «Gesi Baglari» was released at Majör Müzik. The Canadian Souq Records released her latest Techno track «Dame Sobh feat. Hany Mojtahedy».
İpek has performed in New York, on the desert Sahara of Mali, Salvador de Bahia, Stockholm, Marseille, Los Angeles, Istanbul, Novosibirsk, Beirut, St. Petersburg, Glasgow, Cairo, Sana’a or Shanghai etc. She has toured in Japan and has made exclusive tours throughout China.
İpek İpekçioğlu has received a German Record Critics’ Award and was named a musical and political «visionary» by the Süddeutsche Zeitung. The Rolling Stonze Magazine called her a representative for «ideologically blinker-free living».
CARL ÅHNEBRINK
FLEE is an art collective founded by Alan Marzo, Olivier Duport, and Carl Åhnebrink. It operates as an independent publisher, record label, and curatorial platform. This listening session will focus on the label's catalogue.
Carl and his friends dive into what they see as unfairly forgotten musical phenomena through significant documentation and research, with the ambition to shed light on the history and evolution of a particular genre, the genealogy of its political essence, as well as its past and present position in the global socio-economic landscape.
With FLEE, they aim to demystify particular sub-cultures and the spirit of the time characterising their “microcosm” by speaking to the artists, the producers, and their audience.
ALP OLIVIER
Alp Olivier Yorulmaz, a talented multi-instrumentalist from Colmar started to play the Bağlama, the defining instrument of Anatolian music, at the age of six, he expanded his skills by learning from different teachers, and later mastered the Oud, the Cümbüş, the Kabak Kemâne, and the Kemancheh.
Believing to have inherited his love for music from his grandfather, he continues to play together with his friends and performs on stages in Europe.
MORUK FUNK
Özgür, OB One, Moruk Funk, one might call him a prodigy and jack of all trades. Özgür is a passionate DJ, producer, and promoter. Renowned for his exquisite and soulful black music selection, he found hip-hop through b-boying: Battle of the Year, Red Bull BC one, Wold B-Boy Classics, Royal Arena, and 2Face Battle. Inspired by his favorite producer J Dilla, who sampled Moğollar on his debut album in 2001, Özgür took his skills to Anatolian psychedelic funk and created his mixtape series, Moruk Funk, a decade ago. Locked at home in the pandemic, he found the time to digitize his record collection, a treasury chest filled with Anatolian psychedelic rock gems. Some might remember his legendary set at Rundfunk FM in 2022, or his warm-up and afterparty sets at the Psychedelic Music Explosion with Gaye Su Akyol. Recently, Özgür initiated Wav.Ryders, a producer and beatmaking community based in Zurich. He's back, this time at our Summer festival with an eclectic Moruk Funk set!
MIREILLE MINTY
Mireille Minty's passion for electronic music comes from flow, harmonies, and rhythms: in her sets, one senses her understanding of music and her powerful ear for nuance. This allows her to capture and convey moods through her live sets.
Mireille has made it her mission to create danceable sets by smoothly combining darker and powerful tunes with melodic, minimalist, and playful ones.
YUNUS FINDUS
Some call him the «semi-Turk, semi-Obwaldnder, semi-moustache» (Amtsblatt, Amt fuer Ideen 2024), while others prefer Justus, Schünus, Juris, Yann, Julis, Schlusnus, also known as Yunus Findus.
A man of many names, talents, and stories, Yunus Durrer has been living in Zurich for more than 10 years, deliberately dropped out of his English literature and linguistics program at the University of Zurich, yet strongly held on to his beloved books. If this reads like the prototype of the boomer generation's relaxed student life, it is everything but.
Yunus was born on the European side of Istanbul and grew up in Basel, New Jersey, Shanghai, the Asian side of Istanbul, and Engelberg. It is no coincidence that he loves mixing music, people, and cultures. Having played the tenor sax in his high school orchestra, Yunus went on to throw live living room concerts and blast bop tunes at rominimal afterparties.
For the past years, he was responsible for the jazz program at the Festival da Jazz, paving the way for his current role as the jazz booker at Moods. Yunuf Findus will play some of his finest records at the festival.
FESTIVAL PLAYLIST
WIN TICKETS
WIN TICKETS
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Conditions: Everbody who is at least 18 years old is eligible to participate. We do not allow multiple entries.
A correspondence will be kept about the draw for our newsletter. We assure that the data will be used exclusively for the newsletter and will not be passed on to third parties. The newsletter can be cancelled at any time!
The legal process is excluded.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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Yes, the jazzhane festival hosts both open-air and indoor events. For this year’s edition, we have decided to move all shows to indoor stages due to heavy rain forecasts for Saturday, July 26, 2025.
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The jazfhane estival takes place at the Rote Fabrik, Seestrasse 395, 8038 Zürich. We encourage our guests to use public transportation or their bikes. The Rote Fabrik does not offer any dedicated parking sots.
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Yes, most of the workshops will be in English and some times in German depending on the audience (e.g., a music workshop for kids). Carl Åhnebrink’s soundtalk will be held in English only.
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You can buy your tickets online on seetickets.com or at one of Seetickets’ official retail partners (Coop, Press & Books, Zürich Tourismus, etc.). See here for more information.
Usually, you can also buy tickets at the box office. Please note that we do not keep a quota on box office tickets. We advise you to always buy your tickets in advance to guarantee your spot at our concerts.
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We place great value on making the festival available to everybody. Together with our friends at the Rote Fabrik, we have worked on an inclusive price policy.
The festival ticket costs CHF 65, if you own a KulturLegi, you pay CHF 35. Please note that you will need to show your valid KulturLegi at the entrance. -
The Rote Fabrik is a cash-only venue. Please make sure to come prepared. If you need to withdraw cash, you can use one of the ATMs close to the venue.
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The Restaurant Ziegel oh Lac will take care of your thirst and hunger.
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Yes, if the weather gods are on our side, you are welcome to jump into the lake. In fact, many of our guests did so in the past years.
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We believe our festival to be an integral experience, including the music workshops, soundtalks, live concerts, and afterparties. We have decided not to communicate the set.-times in advance. You will receive more detailed information once you arrive at the festival site.
