Sanam

SANAM, the brilliant Lebanese sextet from Beirut, arrives at Le Périscope with a magnificent album released on Montreal’s cult label Constellation (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Jerusalem in My Heart…). The group distills an immersive ritual music between free rock, psychedelia and traditional chants, blending kraut, post-punk and spacious textures – a dizzying sonic universe that exorcises the Arabic song through the prism of experimental rock.

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Bon plan TCL

One ticket purchased = one free ticket to be collected on the evening of the concert at the box office upon presentation of a TCL card.
Offer subject to availability. Card must be presented on the evening of the concert.


The Sanam tour is organised by Le Périscope as part of Better Live, a project co-financed by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme:

― 14/10/25 : Cave 12, Genève, CH
― 15/10/25 : Le Ciel, Grenoble, FR
― 16/10/25 : Bruit Blanc, Attitude Jazz, Briançon, FR
― 17/10/25 : Le Gorille, Gap, FR
― 18/10/25 : Le Périscope, Lyon, FR

saturday 18 october 202521h00
Grande Scène
8/13/15€

Sanam

Sanam sounds like a ritual between two worlds: where improvised rock and free jazz underline an exorcism of traditional Egyptian song and Arabic poetry. The sextet musicians from Beirut transform Arabic texts and traditional melodies into an explosive mix of noise-rock, free-jazz, post-folk and atmospheric sounds. Their music begins meditatively, almost trance-like – and ends […]

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