Name: 5.Electromagnetic Field by Xashrav
Duration: 7 min 2 s
Description: It's like Electronic Downtempo with piano, drum grooves, winds, samples and also a little bit of dance.

Following an exclusive video premiere of Sylvain Texier‘s project as Ô Lake back in 2018, I have praised his debut release, titled Refuge, highlighting it in my Best of the Year lists a year later. This summer, Texier is back with a new release, Gerry, subtitled Music inspired by the motion picture from the eponymous film of director Gus Van Sant, following a story of two men (both named Gerry) who are tested in the California desert on their friendship and a will to survive. Originally commissioned by Travelling film festival, this work was designed to be performed as a cine-concert. “Singular, poetic and contemplative, the film offers immense musical possibilities, due to the length of its shots and its near absence of dialogues,” says Texier of the project. Although not an official soundtrack, the music follows the film and its aesthetics closely every step of the way. Just as the director experiments with the artistic approach on the duration of each visual shot, Texier focuses on the space between the notes, the atmosphere and silence. On the surface, “Death Valley” is a simple, lovely piece, but listen deeper, with the aid of closely placed microphones, follow the melody walk upwards into the light, bathe in the soft resonance produced by the natural reverberation of the piano board, and you will surely unveil all its beauty. I love everything about this project, especially the idea of writing music for an inspiring visual piece. Perhaps I shall try my hand at it also…

"From the very beginning of the creative process, I wanted my music and the film to be one and the same, for this new soundtrack to be as close as possible to the director's intentions and to be considered the real soundtrack."

Gerry

Death Valley

TRACK PREMIERE : Ô Lake - Death Valley

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Xashrav started studying music in 1998, Tehran, Iran by learning how to play the classical piano. Figuring out he was gifted with an absolute pitch, he also started studying music theory, harmonies and composing for 12 years and then shifted to the alternative rock scene with playing drums and electric guitar.
Xash was obsessed with playing and making music with numerous music bands in different genres an approaches such as progressive rock, alternative metal and traditional persian fusion. Alongside the bands "Mavara", "Achromatic", "Catharsis", "Dangshow" etc. Xash recorded and published pieces and studio albums worldwide and performed live shows in Iran and the international music scene.
After years, with focusing on playing the piano/synth, drums and samples simultaneously on stage, he started writing songs and composing for his solo project with his debut album “Atlantic Ghost Crab” in Decebmer 2014 and the album was released in September 2017.
All the composing, arrangements, instruments (such as piano, synth sounds, rhodes, bass, drums, strings, pads etc.) also all of the sounds, melodies, harmonies, engineering, samples, programming and mixing in his projects are written, played and performed by Xashrav himself but since there has always been an acoustic instrumentation and an organic approach to his music, the songs often include vocal, cello, wood and brass wind parts also written by Xash but performed by guest musicians and songs are recreated with a band on stage.

5.Electromagnetic Field

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