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SHĀHERI - ROYĀ TOUR 2027
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SHĀHERI is the Los Angeles Persian psych band led by composer, guitarist and singer Jonathan Shaheri: a band that sounds like a lost 1970s Tehran record found in a Los Angeles surf shop.

The debut album ROYĀ ("dreams" in Persian) is out now on Avenue Niel Music. Its twelve songs move through psychedelic Persian rock ("TORO MIKHĀM," "RUĀ ZIBĀ"), nostalgic originals ("DOKHTAREH MANI," "CHER ALICE"), cumbia and Latin rhythms ("IXTĀPĀ," "GĀRDENIĀ") and cinematic instrumentals ("COMO," "MĀR," "ĀLIYEH"). At its center is the focus track "PERSIĀCUMBIĀ" with Los Mirlos, the Peruvian band who helped invent Amazonian psychedelic cumbia in the 1970s. They travelled to Los Angeles for the song, and its official video was shot at Jonathan Shaheri's home. In 2027 SHĀHERI takes the album on the road with the ROYĀ Tour 2027, their biggest headline run yet: from The Independent in San Francisco and SOB's in New York to ZeyZey in Miami, the Trópico de Cáncer festival in Todos Santos and a hometown night at Los Angeles' El Rey Theatre, before heading to Latin America and Europe.

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