Turin has always been a city of layered identities—industrial memory, cinematic melancholy, experimental undercurrents and it is the perfect places for events like Jazz Is Dead! Festival. For its ninth edition, running 29–31 May 2026, the festival reshapes itself as a full-scale sensory environment. Spread across Cascina Falchera and El Barrio, this year’s edition expands its physical and conceptual geography. The shift in locations is not just logistical but experiential: from open-air rural edges to more enclosed urban intensity, the festival positions Turin itself as an active medium—echoing, absorbing, and refracting the music that passes through it.
The curatorial concept remains rooted in the idea of Jazz Is Dead! as a “concept album,” unfolding across three days with distinct yet interconnected energies. Friday leans toward electronic exploration and abstraction, Saturday moves through hip hop, global mutations, psych, and Black music traditions, while Sunday dissolves into jazz, noise, and rock structures. But these categories are deliberately porous.
The artists involeved are A Guy Called Gerald, Alessandro Cortini, Aya, Big|Brave, Lucrecia Dalt, Moor Mother, Matmos, Horse Lords, The Heliocentrics, and The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble sit alongside collaborations and hybrid formations such as Marta Salogni & Stefano Pilia, Glacial (Lee Ranaldo, Toby Buck, David Watson), and Dwarf of East Agouza (Maurice Louca, Sam Shalabi, Alan Bishop).
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