Edwin Raphael, Hamburg

“How do you achor yourself when occupying multiple geographic identities
at once? For Edwin Raphael, the Dubai-raised, Montreal-based songwriter, it
requires an intentional and intensive form of world-building. By developing an
unmistakable style of folk that merges Eastern scales with the Western pop
canon, Raphael reimagines his music as a exploratory tool that allows him to
construct an interior and sacred home to retreat into”