Sandrayati

Inviting listeners into the space between a breath and a sound, Sandrayati's music calls us forward to a world that is more enchanted than the one we see and more connected than the one we feel. Born into a tradition of folk music and activism, she grew up surrounded by the rich traditions of Java and Bali, which informed much of her relationship to music. Now based in Iceland, in a life lived across more lands and between even more cultures, Sandrayati takes up all these threads of being and weaves identity through song. Her music nourishes and nurtures, drawing audiences not only into herself but into one another. She asks us to open the spaces within and collapse the spaces between– a reminder of our shared inheritance on a shared planet.

Hailed as a Sunday Times Breaking Act, Sandrayati has toured with RY X, Nick Mulvey, and Ghostly Kisses in Europe and the UK (NME) and has performed recently at The Great Escape (UK) and Iceland Airwaves. Her 2023 debut album, “Safe Ground,” produced by Ólafur Arnalds and released on Decca Records, centers around the tension between migration and stillness: how cultures and landscapes become the essences and ornaments of identity yet what happens when we strip that away?

She is currently recording her next studio album in Reykjavík and New York, a project that will come into the world in three waves.