KARA ORMAN • Sayko Session Open Air

On Friday, 24 July 2026, KARA ORMAN plays with Sayko Session Open Air as part of the Schwaneninsel Sommer Open Airs series at Kulturhaus Schwanen in Waiblingen. Doors open at 19:00, show starts at 20:00. The trio led by Nazim Sabuncu blends Anatolian folk with psychedelia, funk, rock and electronic textures. The evening is co-presented by Sayko Sessions Stuttgart. In the event of a thunderstorm or heavy rain, the concert moves indoors to the Schwanensaal.

KARA ORMAN sounds like tradition in motion - not polished, but rooted in the moment - somewhere between Anatolian folk, psychedelia and danceable grooves. At the centre is Nazim Sabuncu on saz, guitar, vocals and loops. Jörg Bielfeldt on drums and Mert Eylem on darbuka build a sound that brings Anatolian folk traditions together with psychedelic breadth and a band energy that gets people moving. What started in 2020 as a casual pandemic jam session has long since grown into a fully-fledged live project.

The music carries traces of Turkish pop and folk history from the 1970s - artists like Barış Manço and Neşe Karaböcek - while opening toward the present in a way that also speaks to fans of global psychedelic acts and club-adjacent sounds. KARA ORMAN don't play a museum retrospective; they play living, open music that puts tradition into circulation rather than preserving it under glass.

For the Schwaneninsel Sommer Open Airs, this is a natural fit: outdoors, with room for curiosity, rhythm and shared listening. The open air is freely accessible with no entry check. Tickets on a solidarity-price model - 10 / 15 / 20 euros - are available in advance and at the door.