Next month CTM will bring its alternative approach to festivals to Siberia collaborating with the Goethe Institut Novosibirsk to hold a multi-day programme across various venues in both Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk. The festival will aim “to foster exchange between local Siberian and Russian artists with artists based in Berlin and Germany”.

Among those announced to play across the sites are Helena Hauff, Lorenzo Senni, Low Jack, Dasha Rush and Rabih Beaini & Daniele De Santis. Also playing (in alphabetical order) are Andrey Smirnov, Appleyard, Buttechno, Byetone, Chekhov, Dyad & The Sleepers Club, Electric Indigo, Ferrein, Foresteppe, HMOT & Roman Stolyar, Huun-Huur-Tu, Kathy Alberici & Federico Nitti, KP Transmission, Love Cult, Mårble, Module Werk, Nikita Bugaev, Opium Hum, Robert Henke, Space Holiday Rocks, VJ Haust, Voronmrak and Wheel. The programme will feature concerts, club nights, daytime talks and workshops. It takes place in Krasnoyarsk from September 11-12 and then moves to Novosibirsk from September 14-20. You can find more information as well as festival passes and tickets for individual events here. More announcements are set to follow on further music acts as well as the talks and workshops.