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

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