NEW ALBUM
Let My Country Awake - OUT NOW
“Vocals, sitars and synths are marshalled to create a cathedral of sound in an album that is both polemical and visionary and which claims a rightful and necessary position in the forefront of a Britain that might yet be.”
ABOUT BISHI
BISHI is an artist, composer and producer born in London of Bengali heritage. She has independently released three albums and several EPs to critical acclaim. Featuring revolutionary use of her trademark electric sitar and four-octave vocal range, latest album ‘Let My Country Awake’ focuses on dual identities, anti-racism, and a call to find empathy in a divided world.
BISHI is celebrated for the use of ground breaking technology in her live performances, from interactive bodysuits to live coded and mixed reality environments. Collaborations and commissions include: Tony Visconti, Sean Ono Lennon, Jarvis Cocker, The London Symphony Orchestra, Yoko Ono’s Meltdown and fashion designer Manish Arora. Alongside compositions placed in both film and TV, BISHI’s first original score for VR experience, ‘Maya: The Birth of a Superhero’ received Special Jury Mention at TriBeCa Film Festival (2023). Her first AV installation 'Reflektions,' sold out at Coventry City of Culture and in 2022 became the first artist’s work to be project-mapped across UNESCO World Heritage sites, The Queen’s House & Royal Naval College, London. BISHI has composed choral music for Trans Voices, the UK’s first professional trans+ choir and in 2023 became part of a team developing an AI composer tool with University of Sheffield. In 2024, BISHI composed the original score for her first TV series, 'Defiance - Fighting the Far Right' for Channel 4... [read more}
“Bishi’s interest in pop mediums exists through a fundamental understanding of the experimental, avant-garde, performing arts traditions of many centuries. I live for her ”
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