Slip on some magnificent outfits, pop on your sunglasses, grab some sickly sweet cocktails and open your hearts wide – that’s the best way to prepare for Thursday 10 June, when KESHAVARA will lay their souls bare at the Musikbar im Bunker with their new album “Moondram Sevi”.

KESHAVARA prefer to seek their coordinates in the shimmer of the air rather than on a map: somewhere between Cologne and South India, between Kraut pop, psychedelic soundtracks and an adventurous patois of English, German, Tamil and gibberish. On “Moondram Sevi”, the fourth album by the band led by German-Indian musician Keshav Purushotham alongside Niklas Schneider, Benedikt Filleböck and Christopher Martin, this in-between realm opens up even further. The title, meaning “third ear” in Tamil, leads to a place where memory, imagination and a few misunderstood film scenes become jumbled together.

The first single is due for release in July. It is inspired by the Kollywood films that Keshav watched during his childhood in India together with his cousin Sahana Naresh.
In this track, Sahana sings in Tamil about a fictional character from one of these garishly glittering parallel universes. To accompany this, string machines, 12-string guitars and the grooves of a rhythm section – one that would have felt right at home in the recording studios of mid-’70s funky Beirut – are combined by eye and shaken up wildly. The result is a series of cocktails crowned with a surrealist sugar rim, shimmering and shimmering like a mirage in the desert.

Having taken the Cologne-based band to European festival stages, on their first extensive European tour, alongside Khruangbin and Grandbrothers, and most recently as far as Scandinavia, the album “III” will see them touring Europe once again in October with “Moondram Sevi” – and, of course, heading to Schleuse Zwei!

On the stage of the Musikbar in the Bunker, don’t expect a concert evening in the conventional sense, but rather a colourful journey through their very own pop kaleidoscope: magnificent costumes, daring headwear, sugar-sweet meandering melodies, echo-drenched corridors and four musicians who, with the storytelling flair of shrewd sound alchemists, steer their songs into ever-new side channels.

Supported by:
Initiative Musik
The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

Discovery Zone is the experimental pop project of New York musician and multimedia artist JJ Weihl. After the slow-building but undeniable fervor around her debut album “Remote Control”, Discovery Zone released her second album “Quantum Web” on RVNG Intl. and Mansions and Millions in 2024, followed by an expanded version in 2025. On “Quantum Web”, Discovery Zone plunged into an uncanny valley, where the distinctions between the earnest and the ironic blur in tandem with the human and the post-human. On stage, Discovery Zone explores a widescreen pop sound speckled with luminous vocal performances and baroque instrumental flourishes. She utilizes a laboratory of instruments and 3D visuals to explore the universe as a source of information. New Discovery Zone music is set to arrive in the first half of 2026.

Sponsored by:
Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf Kunst- und Kulturstiftung
Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland