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Christian Pauli toured Switzerland, Europe and the USA as a bassist for Alboth! in the 1990s. In Bern, he worked as an editor, was a founding member of the cultural pub Café Kairo, later co-director of Dampfzentrale and is now Head of Communications at HKB. Pauli is a father of four children and commutes between Biel-Neuhausen-Hinterfultigen. In 2008, Christian Pauli and his assistant at the time, Roger Ziegler, curated a two-day event that juxtaposed music from Paris and French-speaking Switzerland. They called it Saint Ghetto. Because the event was so successful and great, the two of them decided to turn it into Dampfzentrale’s annual international music festival, now known as Full Of Lava.

Mara Miccichè aka IOKOI is a composer and sound artist based in Zurich. Catia Lanfranchi aka Junge Eko is a touring musician and composer with a background in classical music, singing, performance and composition. Combining avant-pop and spoken word with field recordings and mercurial electronic textures, IOKOI explores the nature of our being in relation to others. She is in search of who and what we are as we increasingly disembody ourselves in the digital age. Influenced by her upbringing with an organ, Junge Eko combines classical songwriting with experimental sound design, utilising sophisticated sonic devices and emotional climaxes. IOKOI played at Saint Ghetto (fka Full Of Lava) in 2021 and Junge Eko in 2022.

Tea Soza is a versatile and creative event manager with many years of experience in music production, curation, promotion and as a booking agent. Her commitment to creating space for innovative and ground-breaking music is at the heart of her work. She has worked with a wide range of international musicians, venues and festivals across Europe and the UK, from radical independent artists to large scale events. Her extensive network in the music and cultural scene makes her a key figure in facilitating unique cultural experiences. Tea has also been a loyal and valued driver at Full Of Lava (fka Saint Ghetto) for several years.

Samuel Savenberg is a musician and sound artist. Gil Schneider aka GIL produces experimental, electronic music. With his latest album Unsung , Savenberg has moved away from his previous alias S S S S, which was characterised by a dark industrial aesthetic, and is increasingly pursuing a more detailed and structural approach to composition. He utilises a variety of instruments to slowly build sequences and melodies interspersed with distortion and deviation. The juxtaposition of GIL’s past training in modern dance with the study of contemporary classical composition paints a suitably blurred picture of GIL’s interests. This deliberate blurring runs as a thread through GIL’s music, which has been released on Aïsha Devi’s label Danse Noire, among others. Recognisable sounds and gestures are embedded in the unfamiliar and unfamiliar. Samuel Savenberg will be playing at this year’s Full Of Lava, together with a band formation consisting of Dominik Bienz, Belia Winnewisser, Hannes Rief, Remo Helfenstein and GIL.