Sophia Djebel Rose

Upset The Rhythm presentsSOPHIA DJEBEL ROSE
Saturday 17 October
The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, London, WC1N 1JD
7.30pm | £11SOPHIA DJEBEL ROSE is a Franco-Moroccan artist who distills a singular music. Blending folk, noise, experimental song, and avant-garde poetry, she invents a new language of her own. Born into the perpetual exile of a childhood divided between two countries, Sophia has turned wandering into her greatest strength. As a modern poetess, she now takes the stage alone, armed with an electric guitar, to sing of the beauty of the lands she has ceaselessly left behind. Her live performances intertwine Mediterranean music with ecological and feminist themes, all of it carried by a syncretic approach that merges into a mysticism meant as an invitation to break the course of things and to reclaim one's strength. Her latest album, Sécheresse, released in february 2025 unveils nine mesmerizing & genre-defying tracks imbued with magnetic allure. Austere yet baroque, dark yet luminous, raw yet refined, this work escapes all categorization: it is an act of faith. To class among the unclassifiable, Sophia Djebel Rose lays the foundations for an oeuvre that follows in the lineage of avant-garde women who never ceased to challenge and expand the limits of style.https://sophiadjebelrose.bandcamp.com/