Sheen Trio "Transitory"

Iran, Germany

Shabnam Parvaresh - bass clarinet, clarinet, FX
Ula Martyn-Ellis - guitar
Philipp Buck - drums

“Sheen,” which means “gloss” in English, represents the sixteenth letter of the Persian alphabet and is the initial letter of Shabnam Parvaresh, the clarinetist, curator, artist, and bandleader born in Tehran and living in Osnabrück. As vividly ambiguous and “transitory” as the current album title suggests, the Sheen Trio, according to Hans-Dieter Grünefeld in Sonic magazine, combines “avant-garde, romance, and folk into a distinctive sound,” playing “electrifying, experimental jazz” (Rolf Thomas, Jazz thing) or “tension-filled post-rock” (Jan Paersch). Embracing the changes dictated by our world, the instrumental stories of the three musicians also reflect on poor internet connections in the 1990s or freedom struggles in Iran, sometimes dynamically wriggling out of a “cocoon,” then again melancholic in “Maroggia,” or intensely as “Unexpected Rock.”