Photo credit: Zayira Ray
Following her recent performance at End of the Road Festival, American composer and theatre artist Sheherazaad has shared her new single “Pakeezah” (translation: “Pure One”), it’s rather gorgeous, from her forthcoming debut album ‘Khudgarzi’, due out on November 20th via Erased Tapes. This is an album we are really looking forward to. Hit the link below to pre-order. There are tour dates too.
“To compose ‘Pakeezah,’ I wandered around old mughal ruins in Lucknow, India humming the melody,” Sheherazaad says. “At night, I’d stay up late at the historic Clarks Avadh–a grandiose, eerie hotel full of nostalgia for the city’s former glory. I was trying to conjure up the ghost of the track: a woman who thinks herself pure before she realizes her own inner monstrosity. ‘Pakeezah’ specifically is about my relationship to purity culture, having grown up in a caste/oppressor background.”
The new single arrives with a striking Vincent Moon-directed video, featuring Sheherazaad and her ensemble performing “Pakeezah” in a unique live arrangement.
‘Khudgarzi’ album pre-order/pre-save: https://idol-io.ffm.to/khudgarzi
Tour Dates:
03.-07.12. Pattaya, TH — Wonderfruit Festival
20.01. Liverpool, UK — Royal Philharmonic
22.01. Edinburgh, UK — Sneaky Pete’s
23.01. Glasgow, UK — Glad Cafe (Celtic Connections)
25.01. Bristol, UK — The Lantern
27.01. London, UK — Cafe Oto
28.01. Margate, UK — Arc
30.01. Fribourg, CH – Fri-Son
01.02. Amsterdam, NL — Paradiso
02.02. Antwerp, BE — De Roma
03.02. Utrecht, NL — Tivoli
06.02. Berlin, DE — Supermolly
07.02. Jena, DE — Trafo
08.02. Prague, CZ — Palac Akropolis
11.02. Porto, PT — RCA
12.02. Braga, PT — TBA
13.02. Lisbon, PT — ZBD
