Universal Rhythm

INTERNATIONAL VOCALIST
SUSSAN DEYHIM
“ROMANCE LANGUAGE” TO BRIDGE MIDDLE EAST/WEST
presented by KCRW 89.9 FM and Levantine Cultural Center 

Featuring

SUSSAN DEYHIM - LIVE

she will be joined by legendary musicians

Steve Ferrone - on drums
Dean Gant - on keyboards

along with very special guests

Ginnger Shanka
Hussain Jiffy
Walter Rodrigue

[September 12, Los Angeles] In times of war artists can be a light out of the darkness.
Iranian American vocalist Sussan Deyhim indeed represents a bridge for peace between her native land and Americans, who will have an opportunity to hear her new show:

“Romance Language”—a collection of international songs of love in Persian, Arabic,
English, Italian, Portuguese, and her wordless incantation

Sussan Deyhim will present a compilation of her different musical and vocal signatures,
vintage love songs from around the world, first presented at The London Jazz Festival.
Part of the set will include music from “Logic of the Birds,” a collaboration with world
renowned composer Richard Horowitz (“Sheltering Sky”, “Any Given Sunday,” “Three Seasons.”) “Logic of the Birds” is based on a 12th century play by Attar featuring a female spiritual leader and has been produced at Lincoln Center, Art Angle in London and Change in Europe. “Deyhim and Horowitz have created a unique and very relevant body of work imbued with a sense of ritual and the unknown.”
Deyhim will also perform her new songs about the political issues she faces as an Iranian
artist living in the US for the last two decades. Deyhim has previously collaborated with
Ornette Coleman, Bobby McFerrin, Bill Laswell, Rufus Wainwright, Talvin Singh, Jah Wobble and Will Calhoun, amongst many others. Sussan has extensive film credits including doing the music and sound design for 8 films by Shirin Neshat, collaborating with Oscar winner Jan Kaczmarek on “Unfaithful,” Peter Gabriel on “The Last Temptation of Christ, Paul Hasliger on “Sleeper Cell,”  Richard Horowitz on “Any Given Sunday,” and with Alberto Iglesias on “The Kite Runner.” 

Deyhim has performed and recorded widely as a solo artist. Her one-woman show “Vocodeliks,” commissioned by the Whitney Museum of Art, led Billboard Magazine to describe Deyhim as “an overpowering presence… [whose] wordless incantations are amplified in harmonized layers and recycled into sampled loops, beckoning you into this virtual desert ritual” while the New York Times said that her “thrilling music…sounds in the ear long after you’ve left the show.” Deyhim’s solo recordings include Madman of God: Divine Love Songs of the Persian Sufi Masters, Shy Angels (with Bill Laswell) for the visionary label Crammed Discs and Turbulent. Other recordings include Majnoun (for Sony Classical) and Desert Equations (released on Crammed Discs), both with the composer Richard Horowitz, a frequent collaborator. With composer and director Heiner Goebbels, Deyhim recorded Shadows (for ECM), based on writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Heiner Mueller, and composed and performed music for Deepak Chopra’s “A Gift of Love,” with narration by Martin Sheen, Madonna, Goldie Hawn, and Debra Winger. She was also a featured soloist on Hal Wilner’s tribute to Kurt Weill, “Lost in the Stars.”