“Art is unhinged”

Ibrahim Sheikh is an emerging independent musician who has played with multiple bands such as Takatak, Keeray Makoray, and Janoobi Khargosh. For the last three years, he has been creating music under the moniker Gentle Robot. Originally from Multan, the 30-year-old now calls Lahore his hometown. Gentle Robot is a collection of emotions, musical explorations and experiments defining the soundscape of a younger generation of musicians. His ability to weave handcrafted music notes and visuals and deliver a new wave of music production to Pakistani audiences, won him critical acclaim at the Lahore Music Meet The News on Sunday then had an in-depth conversation with the artist, to better understand his creative process.