peer2queer
Peer2Queer starts on October 4, 2025, in Basel as a non-profit series. The goal is to create an inclusive space for queer and open-minded people, celebrating music subculture and making alternative scenes visible. The premiere brings together international and local acts: CREAMS (Dark Pop) meets a supporting program that blends subcultural club culture with community experience. In a city where queer culture still has few platforms, Peer2Queer sets an impulse for diversity, intersectional exchange, and respectful experiences beyond the mainstream. The artist Creams, originally from Tbilisi and now living in New York, combines dark pop, electronic beats, and avant-garde aesthetics into hypnotic soundscapes full of pulsating synthesizers and raw, introspective lyrics. She works completely independently—writing, performing, and producing all her releases herself, from concept to mastering. The result is magnetic, subversive music that stems from her complete devotion to her craft. Each song is a Pandora’s box, filled with paradoxical lyrics and melodies drawn from myths, dreams, and literary ideas. Creams belongs to a generation that, in the post-Soviet state of Georgia, has literally experienced everything: political instability, revolutions, wars, and every kind of conflict. She spent her childhood in Batumi, a city on the Black Sea where the cries of seagulls mingle with the sounds of church bells, the call of the muezzin, and the smell of the sea. All of these impressions and memories serve as inspiration for her music. So far, she has released two outstanding EPs and numerous singles. This year, her debut album is set to be released, which she will present with us at Basso.