from the upcoming album 'aSpiritual' by offthesky & Rin Howell... out august 8th, 2021

Music: offthesky & Rin Howell
Mastering: offthesky / Ian Hawgood
Print design: Craig Tattersall
Packaging design: Daniel Crossley
Label: Fluid Audio

offthesky & Rin Howell - Suspension

Musician and composer Sahba Sizdahkhani serves as a unique crossroad of East meets West. Influenced heavily by both 1960’s spiritual free-jazz and Persian Classical Music, he channels the fire-energy and longing for connectivity these two stormy histories represent. At age 12, his self-proclaimed “aha moment” occurred while listening to The John Coltrane Quartet for the very first time. He was hooked and immediately began studies on jazz drum set and classical snare drum.
     As the years passed, however, his ferocious love of jazz and improvisation would open pathways and pointers to his native roots of Persian Classical Music, and eventually, he would begin formal studies on the Iranian santur with master santur player Faraz Minooei.
     Sahba has completed two separate Bachelor of Arts degrees: one at Berklee College of Music, in Jazz performance, and the other at The University of Maryland, in Art History & Archeology. He worked in Paris for several years in textile design but ultimately moved back to New York city to further pursue jazz drumming.
He has composed film scores for Chelsea Winstanley (JoJo Rabbit), Whalerock Industries, maverick avant filmmaker Paul Clipson, as well as a live score performance for the Cinema 16 series in the legendary tunnel underneath the Manhattan Bridge.
Additionally, Sahba has recently recorded with Michael Morley(Dead C) and currently has running musical collaborations with Derek Monypeny, Rob Magill, and Zachary James Watkins + Ross Peacock.
He has shared live bills with a vastly diverse class of artists including Laraaji, C spencer Yeh, Susan Alcorn, Henry Kaiser, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Sunwatchers, Wizard Apprentice, Talibam!, Plankton Wat, Peter Brötzmann, and Don Dietrich (Barbetomagus). He has performed at The White House, Park Avenue Armory, Kennedy Center for the Arts, Basilica Hudson’s 24 Hour Drone Festival, WFMU live performance, “Fire Over Heaven” at Outpost Artist Resources, The Embassy of France, VOA studios, and Garden of Memory Festival at The Chapel of the Chimes.
Sahba’s hazy, atmospheric solo performances with 104-string santour and drums have been described as “a dispatch from antiquity.” And WIRE magazine recently stated “Sahba Sizdahkhani starts playing [his] instrument as if  he's pleading for his life. His playing is breathtaking. . .”
     This particular work, “GANJ,” which translates to “treasure” in Farsi, documents the magical first meeting between a musician and a new instrument. It is the first ever raw, unrefined recording of Sahba on solo santur as opposed to drum set. It was recorded in solitude during the Winter Solstice of 2019 without any prior training or study whatsoever on the mystical 102-stringed trapezoid dulcimer. The consequent emphasis due to lack of any technical skill,  was pure sonics, overtones, resonances, and an homage to minimalist composers such as Terry Riley, La Monte Young, and early Miles Davis. Days after completing this work, Sahba rushed to seek out formal studies of the Persian Classical Radif with his current teacher, Faraz Minooei.

Sahba Sizdahkhani- Ganj Pt. 4 - from Ganj tape on Cassauna

Cattle is drinking and swimming while it’s hot in the desert of Arizona, in the area of Arivaca. 

Recorded by a Sound Devices MixPre6
With a ORTF Schoeps Setup CCM4 x 2 in a windscreen by Cinela,
Sound Ref: AZ210816T001
Wave, 96kHz
Recorded on 16th of August 2021
GPS: 31.661166, -111.165792

Cows’ choir around a pound in the desert

Prism Architecture

Sister is an ode to the strength of children in regions of politicial and social unrest. The music on this album scores a slowly melting wax figure; the image of a young girl loosing her innocence and re-shaping to survive.

All proceeds of the Bandcamp sales of this release will be donated to Stichting Vluchteling (www.vluchteling.nl).

Buy the album here:
https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/sister-music-for-an-installation-performance-by-roshanak-morrowatian

Released by PLAYNEUTRAL

Sister (Music for an installation-performance by Roshanak Morrowatian)

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From Elin Piel's Satsuma Sunday, available for pre-order on tape and digital now.
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/satsuma-sunday

Elin Piel - Bliss Tristesse

空を見たら、所々に散らかっている野花の赤、紫、黄色のようにあちこちに飛び交っている。~  Looking to the sky, one can see them flit here and there, like the reds, purples, and yellows of wild flowers scattered here and there.

Umé Records presents the new album from Carlos Ferreira (@carlos-ferreira-sounds) "Sad Loops", out May 15th, 2022.

Listen: https://umerecords.bandcamp.com/album/sad-loops

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Carlos Ferreira ~ Sad Loops (snippets)

Mo Francesco - Posillipo
Taken from the forthcoming album "Pausilypon"

In “Pausilypon” the musical composition connects with the soundscape, an element that gives a deep connection with the sociocultural environment and with a specific context. The album is based on the composition of narrative music and presents possibilities to represent the world through the creation inspired by the sound of the environment, made of people, vocal sounds, significant moments of urban life, with special attention to timbres, shapes, rhythms, heights, textures and dynamics.....

Pre Orders start April 26, 2022
Releases May 6, 2022

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Digital & Limited Edition CD / 50 copies / Hand Numbered / Hand Made Packages / Brown Kraft and various colored wallets with envelopes

Mo Francesco - Posillipo

Pre-order: 9th September 2022
Release date: 16th September 2022
Format: CD, Digital

"Persona is a mask, a dream and a tragedy. A language of machines and men, of broken monologues and desperate communication. 
Persona is a a story about vanishing through breathing, about deconstructing the harmony of flesh.
Instrumental and digital discourses melt together, probing the circuits inside the man and the blood inside the machine. 
Sound particles crave to deform themselves, crumbling and crashing with each other and then assuming new form, emotionally reprocessing the spectrum of drone-ambient music, giving it a prose and a narrative.
Persona is a melancholic automaton looking for its alphabet."

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At the Gate

Another dark piece done with Absynth, from around the same time as some others, about 2008 or so. This one is titled "dire" and would make for some spooky incidental music.

Prism Architecture

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