Şatellites & Tom Meira Armony. Special Guest: Miki Gavrielov

‘When We Dreamt of Home’

A Turkish psychedelic performance celebrating the bond of love between time, place, and folklore

Psychedelia, disco, rock, and Oriental influences set against a funky groove in a performance that can only be defined as “Retro-fresh psych à la Turk.” The Turkish-psychedelic band Şatellites arrives at the Jazz Festival to host the legendary Miki Gavrielov in a one-time original production under the artistic direction of Tom Meira Armony. Rooted in “Gağua” (longing), for Turkey, for forbidden love, and for old-school romance. The show bridges East and West, connecting Arabic musical traditions with distortion and psychedelia, accompanied by projections and archival footage from Arabic films, alongside VJ and art design that create a rich visual envelope for a story of unrequited love.

Gavrielov’s album “When I Dreamt of Home” was born from the music he absorbed in his childhood from the records of his parents, who immigrated to Israel from Turkey. It carries that same cultural-emotional world that continues to resonate in the music of Şatellites, which blends 1970s Anatolian folk sounds with funk, surf, and rock, utilizing traditional instruments like the Saz and electric Baglama.

Together, they present a work that pours relevance into ancient tradition, helping it stand the test of time and creating a living encounter between past and present, between cultures, and between memory and sound. It is a performance about the yearning for joy that is discovered specifically through pain and lamentation, through a broken heart. And from that shared weeping, where we mourn one another’s pain and sorrow together, a more complete joy is born: the joy of longing.