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Somi’s Holy Room breaks the sounds of silence
9 Apr 2021
Somi’s big-band album lends colour and depth to her songs which often document various strands of diasporic life. (Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty Images)
Grammy nominee Somi’s big-band album
Recorded in May, 2019 in Frankfurt, Somi confesses that she never thought of the show as a possible release until lockdown hit in 2020 and she began to be haunted by the thoughts of all those empty theatres and concert venues.
“I actually had a totally different studio album I was planning on putting out,” she says on a call from the United States. “I will say that when we were in rehearsal two years ago, I was like: ‘Oh my God, I love how the band sounds. I wish that I could make this an album.’