The Voice That Holds a City
Abri for Absent Findings
Some voices don’t just fill a room — they carve out a space in time.
Abri’s is one of them.
At Soul Kitchen Dubai, beneath the soft glow of amber light and murmurs of a gathering crowd, Abri stepped into a familiar current. A current he helped create. Long before the city found its rhythm, his voice was already mapping it — guiding it toward warmth, toward honesty, toward a sound that felt unmistakably its own.
Tonight, that same voice returned, unhurried and assured, reminding everyone why he remains one of the region’s most enduring musical forces.
A tone like dusk.
A presence like gravity.
A command of a room that feels less like performance and more like communion.
For this portal, Abri wears Absent Findings: cummerbund trousers, the Oxford shirt traced with sari piping, an heirloom necklace, and the Chirico jacket — garments carrying textures, memories, and fragments of stories passed forward. Clothes that move between worlds, meeting an artist who has always lived between them.
Around him, an ensemble of remarkable musicians wove their own threads into the night:
- @pkeeyz27 — keys that pulsed with quiet electricity
- @jdeligero — guitar + vocals, shaping melody into emotion
- @opokusanaa — bass guitar, grounding the room in heartbeat
- @maksym.tkhoryk — drums, steady as breath
- @frncsbeans — soundscaper, building the atmosphere between notes
Energy. Craft. Soul.
A gathering of artists who understand that music isn’t merely heard — it’s inhabited.
In this portal, Abri stands as both memory and momentum: a reminder of where Dubai’s sound has come from, and a glimpse of what it continues to become.
Photography: Laura Puscasu [@laurapuscasu]
Talent: Abri [@abri.music]
Wardrobe: Absent Findings [@absentfindings]
Words: Shivin Singh [@shi.vin]
