Kiezsalon w/ Martha Skye Murphy and Muslim Shaggan

Martha Skye Murphy is an experimental vocalist and musician using genre and vocal metamorphosis to dislocate and immerse listeners within encoded narratives. Unpredictable, theatrical and tender, her debut album was released by AD93 in 2024, leading The Quietus to praise “her remarkable, fragile soprano, offset with bursts of operatic ululations.” Murphy’s live shows are staged as spectacles, yet are intimate and affecting. In 2022, she premiered her electronic opera Postcards Home at London’s Southbank Centre.

One of the most accomplished classical vocalists of his generation in Pakistan, Muslim Shaggan can trace his musical legacy back more than 500 years as a descendant of Guru Nanak’s faithful musician companion Bhai Mardana. His album was digitally released in February 2025 with a vinyl version to follow this year. Showcasing what Songlines described as his “light but beautiful voice, and a prodigious technique,” the album features songs across the geet, ghazal, thumri and kafi styles, with Shaggan accompanying himself on harmonium and tanpur.

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