Friday, April 25th, 2025
Sandrayati
doors 19:30 / show 20:00

Join Sandrayati for an intimate evening sharing new and old songs

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Inviting listeners into the space between a breath and a
sound, Sandrayati's music calls us forward to a world that is
more enchanted than the one we see and more connected
than the one we feel. Raised on the islands of Java and Bali,
with Filipino/American heritage, Sandrayati was born into a
tradition of folk music and activism, her vast cultural
background draws audiences not only into herself but into
one another. She asks us to open the spaces within and
collapse the spaces between–a reminder of our shared
inheritance on a shared planet.

Hailed as a Sunday Times Breaking Act, Sandrayati has
toured with RY X and Nick Mulvey, and Ghostly Kisses in
Europe and the UK (NME) and has performed at The Great
Escape (UK), and Iceland Airwaves. Her 2023 debut album,
“Safe Ground,” produced by Ólafur Arnalds and released on
Decca Records, centres around the tension between
migration and stillness: how cultures and landscapes become
the essences and ornaments of ourselves.

With melodies midwifed from dreams into waking life, the
album blossoms with the quiet exuberance of a flower
transplanted. Sandrayati’s voice is as light and as strong as a
strand of spider silk sung by the wind. As it floats above the
delicate, tentative accompaniments, we hear her come into
being–sifting herself out from inexorable currents, matching a
quiet faith against honest uncertainty.

Traveling alongside this new self formed from fragments of
pasts and no-longer-futures is a determined call to care for
the natural world and to embrace the interconnectedness of
all existence. Throughout her work here and elsewhere, Sandrayati pays homage to those she’s known and not known who have laboured to protect both the surface and the soul of the land. She is currently recording her next album in Iceland where she is now based, that will come into the world in four waves in 2025.