Blast No. 15 | June 26th, 2020
Zaki Ibrahim - Shö Live in Toronto
We are so very excited to officially welcome Zaki Ibrahim to Six Shooter Records. Over the next few months, we’ll be releasing Ibrahim’s extraordinary music spanning her impressive career thus far, from studio albums to live albums, rarities and new music.
We’re starting at the start with Ibrahim’s joyous debut EP Shö (Iqra in Orange), originally released in 2006, along with a newly mixed/remastered live album, Shö Live in Toronto, both now available to stream worldwide for the first time. These two albums come with an extra special video for the song “Sunrise,” which speaks of love, reassurance and renewal. "'Sunrise' was originally recorded as a collaboration with South African House Producer DJ Kent. In 2014, a few days after my dad’s passing, I was scheduled to be on tour and in Egypt I first performed an extra-slow arrangement of the song that I could barely finish (my sisters who joined me on tour, Tanika Charles and Pebbles Gqunta, finished the song for me). It felt like a prayer for his transition that day and from that moment on, the song, to me, seemed to serve as a bridge between worlds," says Ibrahim of the song’s transformation.