Foto: Zayira Ray

SHEHERAZAAD

28/5/2025

Doors: 19:00 // Admission: 130 DKK

Look forward to a vibrant night at turkis when Sheherazaad takes the stage on May 28! With roots in South Asian folk, jazz, and experimental minimalism, Sheherazaad creates a soundscape where hypnotic melodies meet Urdu poetry and alternative harmonies.

PROGRAM

➤ Doors open: 19:00
➤ First act (TBA): 19:30
➤ Sheherazaad: 20:30

SHEHERAZAAD

Sheherazaad is an American performer-composer, whose contemporary folk-pop synthesis joins the new wave of South Asian diasporic soundscapes. Her contemporary voicing, though inherently genre-defiant, may be described as alternative folk or experimental ballad. Sheherazaad’s original lyricism modernises certain existing Hindi-Urdu poetic forms, channelling questions of displacement, mother tongue, imagined homelands, and beyond. Currently, she allows the experience of shifting between India and Brooklyn, NYC to shape her eccentric and hyphenated musical aesthetic.

Sheherazaad’s namesake is the revolutionary figure from the largely Middle Eastern and South Asian epic collection of folktales The One Thousand and One Nights, more commonly spelled Scheherazade. This major character’s storytelling prowess brings an end to the mindless genocide of women. 

Translating to “castle” or “fortress” in Urdu, Sheherazaad's debut international release Qasr is indeed a monument — like encapsulation of the real strains of displacement, the push and pull of diaspora, and the depravity of erasure and forgotten roots. These experiences and their inherent violence, hysteria, and romance imbue her sonic deep-dive into the world of the so-called in-between.

The concert is organized in collaboration with Out of Office.

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