Burner Podcast Presents: Alkaline

The Soundtrack to Your Burn

Session A071: Tormenta at Spanky's Wine Bar

Recorded live at Spanky's Wine Bar, Black Rock City 2025

Based in Berlin, Germany, Shirin — aka Tormenta — is a regular in the European burn scene, including NoWhere in Spain. In 2025, she made her first trip to Black Rock City, where her playa initiation came complete with storms, mud, and cancelled gigs. Fittingly, tormenta means "storm" in Spanish.

This set was recorded at the iconic Spanky's Wine Bar in BRC 2025: music for pleasure, self-determination, and moving like you mean it — "a little cheeky and a little filthy," with Tormenta's signature bouncy-dark sound.

Full set: soundcloud.com/tormenta_music/tormenta-at-spankys

Follow: instagram.com/tormenta.music/

NoWhere, Spain Burning Man regional - goingnowhere.org | instagram.com/going_nowhere_burn

Spanky's Wine Bar - spankys.org | instagram.com/spankysswinebar

Alkaline's 2026 season is Produced by Burner Podcast Music Director Chris Huber, aka M.I.A.

Executive producers Navjeet Sarna and Amber Rose

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