The first of a series of mixes from GOHAR X GRAIL, sharing some of the sonic fruits of our research: a collection of music, field and ethnographic recordings from Iran, Ossetia, Scotland, the borderlands of England, and their retrospective diasporas — traditional and contemporary, instrumental and electronic.

TRACKLIST
Helena Celle – Music for Counterflows
Nichola Scrutton – Aria for Breath and Glass
Saint Abdullah – Dialogue Between Wind and Tin
Callum Armstrong – Aulos Improvisation on Bellerman Exercise No. 35
Iannis Xenakis – Persephassa for Six Percussionists
Field recording [Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland]
Shusha Guppy – The Water Pipe
9T Antiope – Nocebo [Side A]
Sarah Davachi – A Garden, An Orchard
Christine Primrose – Am Mac As Sine
Shanbehzadeh Ensemble – Traditional Music from South Iran
Hanna Tuulikki – Vocal Improvisation at High Pasture Cave, Skye
Northern Ossetian traditional [recorded by Vincent Moon & Priscilla Telmon]
Hayedeh – Atigheh
Kaveh Sattari – Field Recording, Navab Bath House, Tehran, Iran
Richard Skelton – Votive
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Brìghde Chaimbeul and Dimcho Enchev – Traditional Kaba Gaida Music from Bulgaria
Firoza – Fragment 4 [Field Recording, Dezful, Iran]
Ossetian traditional
Rosa Zajac & Daragh Lynch – Burning of Achindoun

GXG Mix 01 – Montez Press Radio – Oct 26 2021

An eerie interweaving of spectral passion and vivid ancestral threads, GOHAR X GRAIL's second mix evokes the nomadic journeys of those who came before, as well as shared histories of loss and exile. Featuring experimental electronic music from Iran; spoken works from giants of Iranian and Scottish national poetry, Ahmad Shamlu and Sorley MacLean; rare recordings of a fading Scottish balladry tradition; songs of failure and faerie from Nina Simone and Googoosh; and a variety of traditional folk music from Iran, Dagestan, and the Scottish Highlands, we remember those who are gone, and through remembrance, their stories live on.

TRACKLIST
Ahmad Shamlou – Pariya
Soheil Seheili – Quiet Before the Storm
Flora MacNeil –  Ailein Duinn a ni ’s a naire (Dark-Haired Alan)
George Vlad – Islay Blowhole (Field Recording)
Amin Godini – Sufi Circle, Tehran, Iran (Field Recording)
Petites Planetès – Zhikr Part 1 (Soufisme en Tchétchénie)
Jeff Stonehouse – Midnight at Teques, Storm Approaching
Googoosh – Gheseye Barreho Gorg
Nina Simone – When I Was a Young Girl
Ored Recordings / Arkady and Arseniy Kagramyan – Armenian Traditional
Ali Latif Shushtari – Mazar: Music for Persian Funeral
Shortwave Radio Archive – Radio Iran, Tehran, circa 1970s 
Allan MacDonald – Na h-Eilthrich (The Exiles) 
Darya Dadvar – Yek Gole Saye Chaman
This Mortal Coil – The Horizon Bleeds and Sucks its Thumb
Scottish Children’s Traditional (rec. Alan Lomax)
Neli – Aroosak e Shekasteh
Kathrin Lambert – Nirumand (Sound Installation, Tehran, Iran)
Laura Cannell – Unveiling Shadows
JRPJEJ – from TABOO: Songs of Love and Death
Shahin Souri – Discord
Nico – Secret Side
Sorley MacLean – Hallaig

GXG Mix 02 – Montez Press Radio – Nov 25 2021

GOHAR X GRAIL is a vessel for reflection — uncovering the hidden influence of Iranian culture on the traditions of the British Isles & beyond.

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