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Sifa 2024: Safuan Johari assembles singers, including Aisyah Aziz, to imagine post-human world

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Singaporean music producer Safuan Johari (left) and Maori choreographer Eddie Elliott are behind Suara / Oro Rua, a commission of Sifa.

Singaporean music producer Safuan Johari (left) and Maori choreographer Eddie Elliott are behind Suara / Oro Rua, a commission of Sifa.

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SINGAPORE – What voices will humans leave behind in a post-apocalyptic world? Music producer Safuan Johari has assembled an unorthodox quartet of vocalists to speculate on this futuristic world without humans.

The home-grown singers – comprising pop-soul singer Aisyah Aziz, ethereal singer-songwriter weish, gamelan musician Rosemainy Buang and opera singer Felicia Teo Kaixin – are recognised in their own fields, but Safuan is pushing them to present a different side in his new show, Suara / Oro Rua.

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