Recorded live at Green Door Studio, Glasgow. 
Mixed by Emily Mclaren and Stu Evans. 
Burn it down, start again. No prisoners, No mercy. 
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And Yet It Moves - No Way Back To Lunch

Mehrdad Pakbaz: Composer
Sepand Dadbeh: Oud
Sarvin Hazin: Violine
Ava Shadmani: Alto
Yazdandad Dadbeh: Percussion

Nava Trio for Oud, Violine & Alto - Mov.1

A brand new single from Chicago's EARRING. "Flower Every" is a departure from the wavy muddy catharsis we experienced on the band's debut full length and sees them headed toward a more straight forward hook heavy approach. Jason Balla (Ne-Hi, Dehd) takes the vocal delivery into the light culminating in the band's most powerful work yet.

Earring - Flower Every

‘City Flame’, release date February 15th 2019, is the third single from The Hazzah’s upcoming debut album ‘POST’, due for release on tastemaker UK/NL-based indie label Mink Records on March 16th, 2019. Recorded over the summer of 2018, POST came into being in recording spaces varying from high-end studios like Wisseloord in Hilversum, to a DIY temporary self-built studio in the headquarters of a scouting group in the North of Holland.

The Hazzah’s music is a reflection of the warm comfort of existential freedom experienced through a smoke break during a long road trip. Refining their post-psychedelic roots for their upcoming debut album, The Hazzah’s songs have become louder, deeper and shorter. The scuzzy sounds and words draw influences from bands like Black Lips, The Rolling Stones, Ty Segall and Tomorrows Tulips.

Backed by acclaimed Dutch live agency Friendly Fire, The Hazzah have toured extensively throughout the Netherlands and France, performing at festivals like Le Mini Who, Dutch Design Week, Life I Live, Crossing Border and Paaspop, and supporting acts like Mattiel (CA), Pale Waves (UK), Alex Lahey (AU), St. Tropez (NL), CFM (VS), Hallo Venray (NL), Equal Idiots (BE), The Glücks (BE), Phobophobes (UK).

The Hazzah performed a live session at 3FM radio, in advance of the release of their two singles ‘I’m Your Man/Spend It All’. The tracks were included in playlists by Spotify, including ‘New Alternative’, and a video for ‘Spend It All’ was released by Noisey/Vice, while the video for I’m Your Man was featured on visual tastemaker blog Booooooom TV.

The Hazzah - City Flame

'Heat Lightning' is the first single released by Dutch psychedelic pop outfit Torii, taken from their upcoming album 'Return To Form' (out February 2020, on Mink Records). 

Torii shrewdly borrows stylistics and bends them to its whims, like on the sweltering soul melodicism of ‘Heat Lightning’, which thrillingly accelerates into a motorik-indebted slipstream.

When you first listen to the psychedelic pop of Torii, the songs seem to deftly breeze by without a care in the world: warm, wistful and weightless. Multiple listens to the band’s debut LP Return To Form, however, reveal a stark antithesis of that snap judgment: each one of these eleven tracks was written, composed and recorded with painstaking, deliberate care. Founder Domenico Mangione transmutes troubled feelings of trauma, lonesomeness, and alienation into his intricate, spectral production values.

Torii started as a solo project that found Mangione demoing tracks in an abandoned school building. This rather desolate scenery, plus the screeching of the seagulls that terrorized the area, provided the perfect echo chamber for the Dutch musician & producer to find his definitive voice, at his desired pace. Now a steady five-piece ensemble – Mangione, multi-instrumentalist/producer Tijmen van Wageningen, guitarist/lap steel player Willem Oostendorp, keyboardist Jilles van Kleef, and drummer Olivier Schiphorst – Torii began using Mangione’s free-spirited recording methods as the root for fully-realized studio splendor, giving themselves ample time to blur the sharp frontiers in skill and philosophy. Each musician handled Return To Form’s makeup with kid gloves, harvesting wayward sounds in meticulous fashion.

The band’s crisp attention to detail – each drunken lap steel note, glistened vocal overdub or softly applied bass thrum – isn’t anything less than cathartic. Domenico: “We don’t want to be the umpteenth band that reacts to something and becomes mired in the whole guitar rock machismo. I feel people are generally too confined to their own self-image, rather than just making music.” By merit of Mangione’s deep investment in recording and composing songs, he was able to confront some of his greatest demons. While some music is made to channel hardships, Torii opts to enwrap it, nourish it, and fill up those cold barren voids with myriad colors, textures, and vegetation.

Congruently, Return To Form is the kind of singular pop record that treats dissonance and tunefulness as a calming symbiosis, and though the five musicians responsible have traveled radically different paths, they all met halfway within the album’s strange disembodied zone.

Torii online:
FB: https://www.facebook.com/torii.theband/
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/torii_the_band/

Live bookings: marijn@blipagency.com
Management: marieke@mink-records.com

Return To Form

Heat Lightning

Torii - Heat Lightning

'Forward Retreat' is the second single released by Dutch psychedelic pop outfit Torii, taken from their upcoming album 'Return To Form' (out 22 February 2020, on Mink Records). Release show 22/2/20 at De School, Amsterdam. 

When you first listen to the psychedelic pop of Torii, the songs seem to deftly breeze by without a care in the world: warm, wistful and weightless. Multiple listens to the band’s debut LP Return To Form, however, reveal a stark antithesis of that snap judgment: each one of these eleven tracks was written, composed and recorded with painstaking, deliberate care. Founder Domenico Mangione transmutes troubled feelings of trauma, lonesomeness, and alienation into his intricate, spectral production values.

Torii started as a solo project that found Mangione demoing tracks in an abandoned school building. This rather desolate scenery, plus the screeching of the seagulls that terrorised the area, provided the perfect echo chamber for the Dutch musician & producer to find his definitive voice, at his desired pace. Now a steady five-piece ensemble – Mangione, multi-instrumentalist/producer Tijmen van Wageningen, guitarist/lap steel player Willem Oostendorp, keyboardist Jilles van Kleef, and drummer Olivier Schiphorst – Torii began using Mangione’s free-spirited recording methods as the root for fully-realised studio splendour, giving themselves ample time to blur the sharp frontiers in skill and philosophy. Each musician handled Return To Form’s makeup with kid gloves, harvesting wayward sounds in meticulous fashion.

The band’s crisp attention to detail – each drunken lap steel note, glistened vocal overdub or softly applied bass thrum – isn’t anything less than cathartic. Domenico: “We don’t want to be the umpteenth band that reacts to something and becomes mired in the whole guitar rock machismo. I feel people are generally too confined to their own self-image, rather than just making music.” By merit of Mangione’s deep investment in recording and composing songs, he was able to confront some of his greatest demons. While some music is made to channel hardships, Torii opts to enwrap it, nourish it, and fill up those cold barren voids with myriad colors, textures, and vegetation.

Congruently, Return To Form is the kind of singular pop record that treats dissonance and tunefulness as a calming symbiosis, and though the five musicians responsible have traveled radically different paths, they all met halfway within the album’s strange disembodied zone.

Torii online:
FB: www.facebook.com/torii.theband/
Insta: www.instagram.com/torii_the_band/

Live bookings: marijn@blipagency.com
Management: marieke@mink-records.com

Forward Retreat

Torii - Forward Retreat

Good Day out now on all platforms: https://ianndior.lnk.to/goodday

Produced by:sidepce & Gibbo Beatz & Taz Taylor

iann dior - Good Day

Live recording session in Delft, Netherland; June 2019
Sepand Dadbeh: Oud
Khorshid Dadbeh: Tanbour
Yazdandad Dadbeh: Percussion

Khorasan To Isfahan: Composition by Khorshid Dadbeh - Live recording

Join the artist/scientist and elite lucid dreamer Fariba Bogzaran in a rigorous and heartwarming exploration of the wonders of the nocturnal mind. Dr. Bogzaran shares her unique clinical work with dreaming, and the importance of “unfolding” instead of interpreting our dreams. “Dreaming is the art of the mind,” she asserts, and working properly with a single dream as a dream artist can take up to a year as we examine it from multiple angles. How do we identify the “big dreams,” and which dreams can we ignore? Why is dream journaling so important? Fariba describes Integral Dreaming and the power of Integral Dream Practice. Where do synchronicities and flow states fit in, and what is the difference between reflexive and reflective approaches to dreams? Where does bodywork, and “felt sense” come into play? Can we let our body interpret/unfold our dreams? Fariba discusses why motivation is so important in lucid dreaming, and how we are each “projects in the making.” What is epistemic uncertainty, and how can we enter the “zone” of life with a deeper understanding of will and Will. Fariba shares a number of personal reflections about life, death, dreams, and everything in between. Discover why she is one of the treasured voices in the dream world, and a major contributor to the art and science of lucid dreaming.

Fariba Bogzaran, Ph.D., scientist/artist, founded the first graduate dream studies certificate program at JFK University in Berkeley (1996), where she taught for over twenty years. She has taught lucid dreaming since 1984 and was part of the team at the Stanford Sleep Laboratory in late 1980’s exploring the science of lucid dreaming. She conducted the first quantitative research on the transpersonal experiences in lucid dreaming; Experiencing the Divine in Lucid Dream State (1989). Among many of her publications are two major co-authored academic books on dreams: Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them (2002) and Integral Dreaming: A Holistic Approach to Dreams (2012), both published by the State University of New York Press. Among her recent art publications she addresses arts and exploration of consciousness in a book called: Gordon Onslow Ford: A Man on the Green Island (2019 ).

Interview | Fariba Bogzaran

www.mink-records.com

Mink Records is an independent music label based in the Netherlands and the U.K.

Besides overseeing artists’ recordings, management and promotion, Mink Records, founded in 2016, specialises in allround creative assistance/guidance of artists and enhancing the musical bonds between the U.K. and the Netherlands. Mink represents Pitou, The Visual, The Hazzah, Torii, The Mighty Breaks, Moon Tapes, Boka de Banjul and The Stangs in The Netherlands, and Avocet and MONICA in the U.K. Music released by Mink Records has been featured on BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music, BBC Scotland, Radio X, 3FM, Radio 2, Noisey/VICE, The Independent, Gigwise, NME, OOR Magazine, Clash Magazine, The Line Of Best Fit, God Is In The TV Zine, The 405 and many more influential platforms. Mink releases are distributed by [PIAS].

Known for label nights and release shows in special places like the Vondelkerk, OT301, Bitterzoet (Amsterdam), Indigo Beachclub, Beergarden, PIP, de Grote Markt (The Hague), V11 (Rotterdam), St. Pancras Old Church (London), Cottiers Theatre, The Poetry Club and Broadcast (Glasgow), Mink attributes an importance to live as well as recorded music – treasuring the community building up around these nocturnal gatherings. 

Mink Records is inspired by a whole range of musical genres, from classical to jazz, old school hip–hop to punk, from folk to indie, from world music to psychedelic rock… great music isn’t genre bound, so Mink Records isn’t either.

Genuine intentions with a driving force motivated by the vision of having good music heard.

The Hazzah - City Flame

Mink Records

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