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| | | sub rosa (belgium) #sr 277 cd alireza mashayekhi / ata ebtekar / sote “persian electronic music: yesterday and today 1966-2006” double compact disc set - alireza mashayekhi - shur, op.15 (1966)
- alireza mashayekhi - mithra, op.90 (1982)
- alireza mashayekhi - development 2, op.24 (1970)
- alireza mashayekhi - east-west, op.45 (1973)
- alireza mashayekhi - chahargah 1, op.75 (1979)
- alireza mashayekhi - panoptikum 70, op.27 (1970)
- alireza mashayekhi - stratosphaere 1, op.46 (1973)
- alireza mashayekhi - yaad, op.66 (1970)
- ata ebtekar / sote - miniature tone
- ata ebtekar / sote - nashid
- ata ebtekar / sote - saint homayun
- ata ebtekar / sote - synthetic overture (satan's lullaby)
- ata ebtekar / sote - micro tuning
- ata ebtekar / sote - breadth digit (glass lung)
- ata ebtekar / sote - robot radif
- ata ebtekar / sote - tahrir (love-birds drowned in sorrow)
- ata ebtekar / sote - picture of a whisper
- ata ebtekar / sote - cry
- ata ebtekar / sote - lovaz
- ata ebtekar / sote - niaaz
- ata ebtekar / sote - plainsong
| | click the play button to hear an excerpt of "development 2, op.24" |
| december 2007: repressed & back in stock !!!
killer collection of classic tape-music from the persian composer alireza mashayekhi; whose “shur” (the first track here) is prob. my single favorite piece on the titanic “electronic panorama” box on philips prospective 21e siècle (arguably the most coveted set of early electronic music...)
it’s remarkable that there’s never been a survey of masayekhi’s work until now as, in my opinion, it successfully bridges traditional persian/iranian modes (already a fascinating area of music) with the 60s/70s electronic music vocabulary (of which i’m quite enamored...) - much massed tar/sehtar playing run through ring-modulation and other electronic treatments, much full-gain synthesizer hysteresis; all masterfully assembled into dense, edit-heavy etudes...
the mashayehki set is here augmented by a bonus disc of contemporary music by ata ebtekar (known to some of you for his single on warp under the name sote) - very much indebted to mashayekhi’s melding of persian instrumentation/tunings and electronic manipulation/synthesis a few decades prior... while i’m on record for not being the biggest supporter of “old meets new” collections (especially when they deal in the work of two completely different composers), ebtekar’s music is inarguably good; very abstract (i.e. non-beat-oriented) digital cutups using similar source material, and, for the most part, quite noisy/overloaded...
this feels like the historical electronic music reissue of the year; just so much insanely detail-oriented synth/tape work that it’s almost impossible to take it all in over one sitting... highest recommendation. |
| | sub rosa press release... |
| persian electronic music : yesterday and today 1966-2006
alireza mashayekhi - ata ebtekar/sote
sr277
from alireza mashayekhi to ata ebtekar/sote, the quantum leap of the very unknown electronic music composed in iran from the sixties till today. two iranian music masters who work (mainly) on ancestral structures to create something radically new, who travel around the world to finally live and work in their country - two vivid creators through the hazards of history.
alireza mashayekhi : a short biography
alireza mashayekhi was born in 1940 in tehran, iran. he is one of the pioneers of modern music in iran. mashayekhi's works have been performed in iran and abroad for more than 35 years. mashayekhi believes that contemporary composers should create music in wide range of styles. his own compositions have tended towards three major direction: pieces that are directly inspired by iranian music (e.g. symphony no. 5, persian suite and shahrzad) and compositions that are not directly related to iranian music (e.g. symphony no. 6, concerto for violin and orchestra, sonata for piano) and multicultural compositions (e.g. symphony no. 8 and the electronic composition east-west). at the time of stalin in the ussr, many pieces were composed with predetermined identities in honor of marxism and leninism by the request of the governmental authorities or by the artist's own wishes. among these pieces those with artistic rightfulness remained and they were honored in both east and west, but the political weight of the other ones did not succeed to help them survive. - alireza mashayekhi
alireza mashayekhi is regarded as a pioneer iranian avant-garde composer whose ideas and works, which have been performed in iran and abroad for more than 35 years, have greatly influenced the contemporary music in iran.. - hooman asadi of the university of tehran, iran
ata ebtekar aka sote : a short biography
ata ebtekar aka sote is an electronic composer, sound artist and recording engineer who was born on september 2nd, 1972. his goal is to create unique and timeless pieces of music that are not available anywhere except in his mind. sote is interested in keeping the tuning of persian classical scales (radif) and melodies from old persian folk songs within a new electronic framework. since he has a firm conviction that rules and formulas have to be deconstructed and rethought, he alters some of these modal systems from their original tonality and rhythm (tradition). he has released several cds and vinyls on dielectric/rlr, spundae and especially on warp. |
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