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Bishi Live!
Barbican Theatre
Castle Street
The Barbican
Plymouth
Devon
PL1 2NJ
Castle Street
The Barbican
Plymouth
Devon
PL1 2NJ
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About us
In this first ever performance in Plymouth, Bishi will perform her new album Let My Country Awake live on Barbican Theatre's intimate stage.The album launched with sell out shows at London's Southbank Centre following an appearance at Reflektor Festival in Hamburg.
Partly inspired by the essay collection The Good Immigrant and Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel-winning poem exploring borderless identity, Let My Country Awake features revolutionary use of her trademark electric sitar and four-octave vocal range.
The album, released on her own label Gryphon, also features sampled interviews from Nikesh Shukla, Salena Godden and Darren Chetty. It's a work exploring dual identities and a call to find empathy in a divided world.
As a multi-instrumentalist, she has been trained in both Hindustani and Western Classical styles and studied the sitar under Gaurav Mazumdar, a senior disciple of Ravi Shankar
Who is Bishi?
BISHI is a singer, electronic rock-sitarist, composer, producer, and performer born in London of Bengali heritage. As a multi-instrumentalist, she has been trained in both Hindustani and Western Classical styles and studied the sitar under Gaurav Mazumdar, a senior disciple of Ravi Shankar. BISHI has independently released two albums and several EPs on her own label Gryphon Records to critical acclaim. She co-produced her third album 'Let My Country Awake,' set for release in October 2021.
BISHI is the founder of WITCiH, a platform elevating Womxn in Tech. She recently curated 'WITCiH Digital Festival' starring Laurie Anderson. BISHI has recorded work with Tony Visconti, Sean Ono Lennon, Jarvis Cocker, and Daphne Guinness. Her collaborations and commissions for the stage include; The London Symphony Orchestra, The Kronos Quartet, Yoko Ono's 'Meltdown', a film collaboration with fashion designer Manish Arora, and the City of London Sinfonia as a Tanpura soloist on Jonny Greenwood's 'Water. BISHI produced LANDR's first-ever Sitar Sample Pack
