Aircraft LIVE / OLHA BOROVYK / AFTERPARTY BY TUFF MONTY

For the first time in Munich: Aircraft.
Founded in Kyiv in 2011 and now based in Berlin, the band Aircraft has built a devoted international following with music reduced to its bare essentials: drum machine, guitar and voice. Gentle vocals drift over warm, brooding guitar motifs and the pulse of vintage drum machines and synthesisers. Somewhere between early Depeche Mode, Cocteau Twins and A.R. Kane, their sound can move without warning from light irony into melancholy, tension and gothic shadow. Minimal in form, deeply atmospheric in effect.

The concert launches a new series dedicated to contemporary Ukrainian music, art and culture, taking place at Lieberscholli over the coming months. The series is curated by Olha Borovyk, a Kyiv-born, Munich-based producer, translator, artist and cultural activist. In 2022, she produced and curated Munich’s first event series devoted entirely to contemporary Ukrainian culture, bringing some of Ukraine’s leading artists to the city.

Before Aircraft take the stage, Borovyk presents the live premiere of her audio project Unrounded Vowels. She translates works by major contemporary Ukrainian poets into English while preserving their rhythm, rhyme and natural musicality. Layered over lo-fi beats and electronic soundscapes, the poems become immersive audio pieces that carry the sound and movement of the Ukrainian originals into English, allowing their humour, grief and intimacy to travel beyond language. Following coverage by leading European media, including Süddeutsche Zeitung, the project will be performed live for the first time with internationally touring DJ and producer Human Rias, who reconstructs its electronic architecture around Borovyk’s voice in real time.

After the concert, the night continues with an afterparty co-curated by Tuff Monty, a fixture of Munich’s underground and a resident at Legal Club and Goldener Reiter. Expect house and techno from the 90s to right now, built for a dancefloor that doesn’t let up. Full line-up to be announced soon.