never heard something like this before.. WOW!!

This catapults me into an arabic 22nd Century and I stay there. Love it!

Produced, mixed and remixed by Omid Walizadeh.
Featuring:
Synth work of Sasoon Hairapetian
Rhymes by Roody
Art by Arash Zarifian
Additional Mixing done at Flying Carpet Studios
Remixes of Faramarz Assef, Zoya Sabet and much more
Co-piloted by Remy Siamak and Sheila Afsoon Walizadeh.

GOLHAYE RANG A RANG-OMID WALIZADEH

I've got a powerful and slightly conceptual track premiere for you today. Powerful, because, well, it's Siavash Amini, the Tehran-based Iranian ambient and sound artist whom I've been following for about a decade now via his releases on Umor Rex, Flaming Pines, Opal Tapes, Room40, and the Swiss Hallow Ground imprint, the latter of which is putting out this record, titled Songs For Sad Poets on September 23rd. Conceptual, because the collection of eight tracks is inspired by the "legacy of the so-called cursed poets (»poètes maudits«) as well as the German-language tradition of song cycles and expands the structure of the classic art song through a process of lyrical abstraction." On this album, Amini is collaborating with the New York-based author Eugene Thacker, who supplies the poems which intricately weave themselves into the dark, brooding and desolate drones. But the words here are not spoken. They are expressed by virtue of this sound. Spending over nine minutes with this piece while reading the printed poetry really sets the mood, accompanied by music [I'll embed the image of the piece below]. Words like "wilted", "dead", ablaze", "withered", "black", and "silent" indeed set the mood for rumbling bass, dissonant cries, and shuffling noise, reflected in music, reflected in words. Together, the two creators deliver a project focused on the idea of the "fragility of the human being set against the vast horizon of climate, planet, and the cosmos that produces a ‘sadness without cause.’" "Powerful" is not a word that I throw around lightly - and if you listen to this track, I think you will agree with me.

"The structure and inspiration for textures of this track (and the whole first volume) come directly from Eugene’s text, but not in the exact order they appear in the poem. Imagine a choir singing some parts of the text simultaneously– in this case 1|5, 2|3  correspond to the first three minutes, 3|4|6 to the more quiet middle part and 7|8 to the ending. There are two tunings used simultaneously in some parts to express this superimposition in a more audible manner."

Songs for Sad Poets

A Quiet Glow (For Chūya Nakahara)

TRACK PREMIERE : Siavash Amini & Eugene Thacker - A Quiet Glow (For Chūya Nakahara)

Tracklist: 
Ramesh -Zeyarat
Najat Al Saghira - Ana Bashak El Bahr
Mona Abdel Ghany - Law Lailah
Lale Belkis - Umut
Betti - Bi Kassi
Googoosh - Mojezehgar
Ramesh - Roudkhoneha
Penahi - Dance music
Ramesh - Aroose Noghrepoosh
Leila Forouhar - Kalaghaye Khabarchin
Warda - Haramt Ahebak
Hayedeh - Gol Vajeh
Elaheh - Boose Baran

#iran #egypt #turkey #world #funk #ramesh #warda #lalebelkis #betti #googoosh #hayedeh #femalevocalists #archives #femalevocalists

Female Vocalists from Iran and Beyond. 'Miracle Maker' (09.08.2022)

Syncing up with Radio Alhara and stations around the world for #SonicLiberationFront: In Solidarity with Iran.

The broadcast, protesting violence against women in Iran, following the murder of 22 year old woman Mahsa Amini in Tehran. Featuring 100% women and nonbinary Iranian artists, the project is curated by Pouya Ehsaei: 

_"Iranian history in the past hundred years is a story of resistance against violence and oppression. Most recently, on 16 September, the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, ignited a nationwide uprising in Iran. Mahsa was detained and beaten up by the morality police for wearing her hijab in an “inappropriate” way and died in custody. Since then Iranians, particularly women, have been on the streets shouting “Women, Life, Freedom” demanding a free country, a fair government and the abolition of compulsory hijab. In response to this movement, the Iranian government is violently attacking and arresting the protesters and has shut down the internet to limit communications.
We are standing by the people of Iran who are risking their lives for freedom. In a climate where the Iranian regime is creating a toxic environment to spread fear and prevent Iranian people from raising their voice, we want to thank all of the artists who have responded to this invite and offered their mixes and, more importantly, their names in the name of freedom. These are the voices the Islamic Republic wishes to silence. These are the voices that used to be sung in private and are now shouting together in a fog of tear gas, in the middle of fire. These are the voices that lead Iran to freedom. #womenlifefreedom"_

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/sonic-liberation-front-gisou-golshani-29th-september-2022

Sonic Liberation Front - Solidarity with Iran - Gisou Golshani 290922

@sagzi

_tracklist
Remix (تصور کن _Qomeyshi)
برایم بخوان محمد _Elias Alavi
Ghost Dog _rza
Iiiiiii Hiiiiiiii _DJ Rashad
The Myth of Normal _Gabor Maté
az oonja _Baadeh
Can You Dance _KRS-One
Movie Star (Freestyle) _070 Shake
Snakes _Arca
Traditional Music of National Species Vol. II - 07 dances VII _Rashad Becker
Painful Enlightenment _Jana Rush
QASR WA DAWLAT _BULBUL
°Remix (°Tying Knots [Qashqai women weaving carpet, Field recording from the project "Algorithm of Beauty"] _Y.Yazdani & C.Wienland [Khamoosh Recording Archive] - °Memory Pressure _Rian Treanor & Ocen James - °170819 _nihiloxica)
Najva _ Gholam
ATASH _ BULBUL
TOF BATO TALIB _Roya Mehtar
Don’t Succeed _Maoupa Mazzocchetti & Mika Oki
She’s A B.... _Uki Remix
wut _ vyper
Soul Searching _ Subgenius
Remix (Ey Karevan Aheste Ran _Moharam 98 - Iloveu _Deepdreamcreepcream)
da’yie _ Deepdreamcreepcream
کُنار غریو_Anonymous singer

HEAL THE SHIT OUT OF ME - sagzi

This collection, consisting of original music by all Iranian women artists, is dedicated to the recent uprising of people, especially the women in Iran who have endured silencing, censorship, and forced control over the past four decades. Throughout Iranian history, women have been at the forefront of music and performing arts. However, in the past 44 years under the Islamic regime, women in Iran have been banned from singing, dancing, and performance. Facing threats to the safety of themselves and their families, to their career and reputation, female artists are forced to quit, leave Iran, or to go underground facing grave risks. Despite this, Iranian women have remained active and at the forefront of their art, pushing boundaries from Iran and different corners of the world. 

Iran has risen up to a revolution. On September 16, 2022, A young girl named Mahsa Jina Amini was killed in the hands of Iran’s morality police, a police force assigned to enforce Islamic dress codes on women through harassment methods. Since then, major protests have broken out across the country and throughout the world. What started as a spark in protesting justice for Mahsa Amini has since turned into a revolution with people fearlessly protesting across the country. Government forces have brutally killed, arrested, and tortured many protestors including children and teengars. Despite this, the protests are getting larger and larger and the fight for freedom of oppression for women and girls has become the greatest of its kind throughout history. 

As a group of Iranian women, this fight is closest to our hearts. We release this collection in solidarity and towards a fight for a free Iran. We dream of a future where women and girls can openly and safely practice, grow, and shine within arts, especially electronic music. From us to you, the free and soon-to-be free world, and to a free Iran. Zan, Zendegi, Azadi [translates to: Woman, Life, Freedom]. 
credits
released January 20, 2023 

Poster by: Ghazal Foroutan 
Mastering: Kamyar Khanzaei

MENTRIX - Be Mahsa Be Nika

Electronic part of the performance piece "Ask my Ash" for Saxophone, Cello, Percussion and electronic!
Premiered by Blackpage Orchestra in June 17.

Ask My Ash (ELectronic part)

opaltapes.com/album/sacred-horror-in-design

Developed from a commission by CTM Festival as an audio/visual project in collaboration with Tarik Barri, and inspired by their 2017 theme of ‘Fear Anger Love’ and its relationship to his childhood following the 1979 Iranian revolution, the record reveals a dramatic blend of acoustic Persian instrumentation and contemporary electronics. Sote aims to devise an idealised fusion of the musical heritage and tradition of Iran with the forward-thinking vision which has propelled his storied career producing techno, hardcore and computer music for labels like Warp, Ge-stell, Morphine and Repitch.

Now living in Tehran, his music has frequently grappled with the strict cultural restrictions imposed in his country over the past few decades, finding a space and setting to nurture new developments in experimental sound and performance; first documented on last year’s ‘Hardcore Sounds From Tehran’ on Opal Tapes.

Working with Arash Bolouri who plays the santour (Persian hammered dulcimer), and Behrouz Pashaei on the long-necked, four-string setar, Sote frames and responds to their traditional artistry. On occasions he directly manipulates the music emanating from their ancient instruments, cultivating and thickening up a surreal and beautiful tonality plucked from their strings with a series of processing techniques, but mostly each track is a peaceful arrangement and partnership, Sote electro-acoustically augmenting their movements within his own cybernetic framework. The resulting form gives the impression of semi-improvised gesture between three skilled partners, a deft call and response that uses digital techniques to extend the intentions of the performers into a modern, shady, but ultimately optimistic narrative; creating an paradoxical amalgam of the mythic and the profane as strong as any folk music.

Across the six tracks the strange strings tend to conduct the overall experience, tuned to the unusual colour and complex microtonality found in the classical music of Iran. Blurts of noise, sour tones, and a vaguely technoid or dubwise impression expose the inner rhythm and counterpoint embedded in this strummed music, building a new understanding and doorway into unfamiliar timbres and environmental patterns which govern us. At times it finds the artist at his most compositionally delicate and measured—listen to the sense of space afforded to a beautiful solo that drifts throughout “Boghze Esfahen” and then into “Plural”—and redoubles his focus on what new insight might be gained from the emotional, mathematical and polyrhythmic principles underpinning Persian music.

The electronic parts on final track “Holy Error” are sourced from Sote’s residency at EMS Stockholm in late 2016, utilising their remarkable in-house modular Serge system and divesting from conventional Iranian tonal motifs for a spikier duel with the instruments.

Synthesis: FM 
Dastgah: Nava & Chahargah 
Instruments: Santour, Setar & Kamancheh (by Kian Farahani)

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Saint Abdullah - Zeynab

Taken from Sote’s upcoming album MOSCELS on Opal Tapes, out May 15.

Pre-order: https://opaltapes.com/album/moscels
More: www.orbmag.com/music/premiere/

@opal-tapes
@sotesound

MOSCELS

Premiere: Sote - MOSCELS O

و نیم مرده و بی رمق
همدیگر را یافتیم
با گام های لرزان در برف
اما امید همچنان از دوردست ها میوزد
شاید وقتی آسمان صاف است
بال زنان چشم در من میدوزد
او با نور و آتش زمین آمد
و من ارزش اشکت را ندارم عزیزم
نه آن را در سیلاب اشک خواهم شست
و نه چیزی در زمینش خواهم کاشت
چه پیراهن زیبایی دوختم
در آستانه ی سفید بهشت
بال زنان چشم در من میدوزد
او با نور و آتش زمین آمد
و من ارزش اشکت را ندارم عزیزم

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Skippers - Half Dead | پشیزبالان - نیم مرده

Avant-garde electronic music from Tehran, Iran
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