FARAVAZ

Faravaz returns to SO36 for the release show of her new EP Saffron. Three singles build toward the release across the summer — Passport (12 June), Saffron (10 July), and Body Count (7 August) — before the full EP drops on 4 September. The Berlin show is the peak of the Saffron Tour and Faravaz's biggest hometown night of the year.The Iranian-born singer, songwriter, and activist grew up in Tehran, where women are banned from singing solo in public. She published her music anyway, was arrested for it, and has lived in Berlin since fleeing Iran. Her music blends alternative pop and R&B with Iranian and Middle Eastern influences — political, direct, sensual, sung in English. The lyrics move through exile, body, freedom, anger, and tenderness."Singing is my weapon to fight." — FaravazIn March 2026 she released Butterfly, a collective EP built with 15 FLINTA* artists around queer visibility and self-determination. Her debut album Azadi was covered by Rolling Stone, BBC, ARTE, Der Spiegel, and Tagesspiegel. The documentary My Orange Garden, which follows her life and work, streams on The New Yorker. Her live history includes Reeperbahn Festival, WOMEX, Dockville, Fusion Festival, and Pop Kultur. She is the founder of the non-profit The Right to Sing e.V.At SO36 the new EP gets its first full-length outing on stage — with band, with guests, with everything the night asks for. A show about the right to sing, the right to love, and the right not to apologise.