This show features a live improvised session by the From the Lips to the Moon collective, featuring Pouya Ehsaei, Tara Fatehi and Adib Rostami, recorded by Nymity. 

When we refuse… we create dissonance and more importantly, we allow dissonance to continue.’ - from Jack Halberstam’s introduction to the Undercommons. Disruptive music for broken times. Queering, Unlearning, Fragments and Imaginings.

https://www.nts.live/shows/debt-refuge/episodes/nymity-w-from-the-lips-to-the-moon-4th-october-2022

Debt & Refuge w/ From The Lips To The Moon (Live) 041022

HULUBALANG - Sengatan (Digital)

RocRast #31

London based Cuban/Iranian quartet Ariwo's "Flameback Dance" is the second single to be released from the forthcoming 'Door To The Cosmos' compilation by On The Corner. Focussing on exploring new dimensions in sound with adventures in electronic music being rooted by ancestral rhythms and melody. The London based collaboration bring virtuoso sounds from Iran and Cuba that premiered at MANANA CUBA’s Boiler Room Session. Reaching maturity at their new home On The Corner.

More info here: musicamacondo.com/2020/07/premiere-ariwo-flameback-dance/

Premiere: Ariwo - Flameback Dance

Pouya Ehsaei is an Iranian musician, audio-visual artist and performer currently residing in London. Beside his solo sound projects, he is involved in different collaborations with dancers, performers and other musicians.

He is also the composer and bandleader of “Ariwo”, with whom through improvisation and real-time processing, he explores the possibilities of Afro-Cuban rhythms and melodies mixed with electronic percussive noises, hypnotic modular patterns and psychedelic atmospheres.

RocRast plays with our perception of time. How experiencing time leads to sensations, feelings, emotions and how these become the matter that is sound. RocRast seeks to strike an image behind the eyelids. A mass of sound floating in the air, getting in and out of focus. A grumbling tunnel with bursts of fractal shapes. A stranded village, sandstorm, creaking door, drops of water. Or perhaps it strikes an image of a figure flickering in red light, broken and deformed, strumming a broken instrument that never sounds right. RocRast is about nothing, nothing but that window of time when you’re listening to it. It is a malleable mass that can be heard and seen from multitudes of angels. How melancholic, brutal, calming and disturbing it sounds, depends on your experience in the moment, there and then. 

Rocrast’s tracks are all recordings of live performances played on an all-hardware setup with a modular synthesizer at the centre. There has been minimal editing and post-production. This is partly dictated by the continuous aspect of these tracks which made time jumps impossible; and partly in an attempt to be true to the actual moment of these performances. 

Composed by Pouya Ehsaei
Mastered by Nima Aghiani
Artwork (Drypoint on Card Paper) by Aylar Dastgiri
Design by Arash Bolouri

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Pouya Ehsaei -  Rocrast #22

Leaves lose their effervescence, stroking the strings of the ground as they bring us into the colder months. Such is the sound that resonates out of Chris SSG, our next guest from Japan. A master of mesmerizing, emotive passages, he is known for his careful consideration, patient execution, and sublime selections. As co-founder of the now-defunct MNML SSGS blog and event series and a resident at the semi-regular Sound Garden chill out parties, he has spread his infectious love for boundless forms of music far and wide, reaching audiences across the globe. After hearing his acclaimed mixes for podcasts such as Electronic Exploration and Mysteries of the Deep, we are ecstatic to have him contribute to UNRUSH. So grab a blanket, some tea, and watch the eternal processes of decay and rebirth unfold before you with this very special session from Chris SSG.

Thanks a lot https://soundcloud.com/mnml-ssgs

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Cover artwork by Irakli Kiziria 
Words by Nathan Levenson

Tracklist:

Biosphere - Berg
Ital & Halal - Where Exactly I Am
Shasta Cults - Incline
Sarah Davachi / Ariel Kalma - Adieu La Vie
Art Crime - Self
Niagara - Ano-B
William Selman - Polysemy
Imaginary Softwoods - Lie Down and Rest
Grand River & PRG/M - Rosenbach Acoustic Piano (70's)
Neel - Planatia
Pye Corner Audio - Phase B
A.R. Hill - PT2399
Exael - Actaeon
Pontiac Streator - Enter Sandman
Tadd Mullinix - Woman in the Dunes
Norm Chambers - Glass
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - Kreintoj
Ragnar Grippe - Part 1
John Also Bennett & Field Works - Indiana Blindfold
Laurie Spiegel - Pentachrome
Christina Vantzou - Lava (Ka Baird remix)
Spirit & Form - Spirit & Form (Lieven Martens remix)
Koen Holtkamp - Flint (for Flynt)
Baba Stiltz - Hotel Exile
Lord Of The Isles feat. Ellen Renton - Inheritance 
The Detroit Escalator Co. - Fractual (in)

Unrush 049

049 - Unrushed by Chris SSG

KMRU - ib07 // Alternate African Reality – Electronic, Electroacoustic and Experimental Music from Africa and the Diaspora (Syrphe, 2020)

Ben Bondy - three // mycoplasma (self-released, 2020)

Roberto Carlos Lange - Cloud Wow 002 // Kite Symphony (Ballroom Marfa, 2020)

Pontiac Streator - lamp fest // Triz (Motion Ward, 2020) 

Visor - Passing Landscapes // Visor (Tomlab, 1997)

Naemi - Procel // bblisss (bblisss, 2016)

This Mortal Coil - Meniscus // Filigree & Shadow (4AD, 1986)

Ana Roxanne -  Suite Pour L’invisible // Because of a Flower (Kranky, 2020)

Sofie Birch - Reverie // Planetes (Seil, 2019)

AIR Krew - Winter Hike // Discuss and Come Back (Motion Ward, 2020)

Grouper -  Cloud in Places // Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (Type, 2008)

Forest Management - Dilute // Rooftop by Dusk (self-released, 2020)

Rosy Parlane - Awa // Touch: Isolation (Touch, 2020)

zakè - Cadence // Coppice Movemets (Zakè Drone Recordings, 2020)

Fly Kin Mountain - Secrets I II III // Gunned Down (Lillerne Tapes, 2020)

Mark Van Hoen - Rewilding // Touch: Isolation (Touch, 2020)

Jake Muir - reservoir of memory // the hum of your veiled voice (Sferic, 2020)

Demen - Korridorer // Nektyr (Kranky, 2017)

Flying Saucer Attack - Popol Vuh 2 // Flying Saucer Attack (FSA/VHF, 1993)

Bellows - 01 // Undercurrent (Black Truffle, 2020)

Koyil - Vāɡ // Test Pressing III (Muscut, 2020)

perila - fog // i had a dream i don't remember (self-released, 2020)

Hosoo - p.5 // Mist (Line, 2019)

Paul Hindemith - Sonate Für Viola Solo Op. 31 Nr. 4 (1924): Lied - Ruhig, Mit Wenig Ausdruck // Kim Kashkashian & Robert Levin, Sonatas for Viola / Piano and Viola Alone (ECM New Series, 1988)

Kali Malone - Sacer Profanare // The Sacrificial Code  (iDEAL, 2019)

Harold Budd, Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie, Simon Raymonde - The Ghost Has No Home // The Moon and the Melodies (4AD, 1986)

Pinkcourtesyphone - elaborate patio dining // Leaving Everything to Be Desired (Room40, 2020)

Ulla Anona - Moon // bblisss (bblisss, 2016)

Harvest Moon

Harvest Moon (2020)

Pouya Ehsaei is an experimental live musician, sound designer, producer, curator and radio host working as a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians and artists. He is the leader of the band Ariwo and the figure behind the electronic and live music club night Parasang. Pouya’s practice involves experimenting with different compositional and sound synthesis techniques to create a sonic passage through hypnotic soundscapes, industrial beats, intricate sound miniatures, epic soundscapes, fractal polymeric rhythms and pulsating hard hitting sub frequencies. Pouya has performed at Royal Albert Hall, Barbican Centre, Southbank Centre and the Royal Academy of Arts as well as several festivals including Montreux Jazz Festival, Womex, Womad and Fusion.

RocRast #31

Pouya Ehsaei

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