Atmospherically dense, voluptuous and highly sensual – the Sheen Trio shapes its unique music like a mythical means of transportation. Delicately and richly nuanced, strands of jazz, rock and experimental music are interwoven with musical influences from Iran, the homeland of clarinettist and composer Shabnam Parvaresh. Her musical career began in her home city of Tehran at the Tehran Symphony Orchestra, and in 2014 she came to Germany to study jazz clarinet. Five years later, she founded the Sheen Trio as an amalgam of all her musical influences. The trio’s sound resembles a musical migration, exploring newly found places in a calm and reflective, but sometimes also excitingly impulsive way. Together with Ula Martyn-Ellis on guitar and Philipp Buck on drums, they create experimental compositions in which clarinettist Shabnam Parvaresh tells her own special stories: Of bad internet connections in the 1990s, of childhood memories and freedom struggles in Iran.

The name “Sheen Trio” refers to the “Sheen”, the sixteenth letter of the Persian alphabet. The name of the band leader Shabnam Parvaresh begins with a “Sheen”.

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