In anticipation to Hüma Utku’s performance at Le Guess Who? 2025, tune into Silence Is Your Friend on Refuge Worldwide: a one hour podcast featuring electronic music of experimental nature, which the artist prepared to celebrate the release of her album Dracones.
The selection of new and older works, which have been of inspiration for her, includes music by Utku herself as well as previous Le Guess Who? artists Concepción Huerta, Abul Mogard, Félicia Atkinson, Astrid Sonne and more.
With her new album, Dracones, Istanbul sound artist Hüma Utku ventures through chaos, transformation and the intimate unknown. As medieval explorers would mark uncharted, dangerous places on maps with “hic sunt dracones” (here be dragons), Utku’s creatures represent themes of familial demonology, metamorphosis and homecoming.
She also explores the human relationship to the experience of love woven layers of euphoria, alienation and consumption. Industrial pulsations rise from dark sonic corners to bloom into bright layers of experimentation, displaying shimmering guitar tones and reimagined echoes of the ancient lyre.
Hüma Utku presents Dracones at Le Guess Who? 2025 on Saturday 8 November. Also performing at the festival are a.o. Ghadrغدر, PHEW & Valentina Magaletti, Maya Al Khaldi & Sarouna feat Dina Mimi, and many more.
Photography by Kasia Kim Zacharko
