Label: Room40

今回も素晴らしいコンセプトで制作!!厳格なエレクトロニックノイズと豊かなクラシック・コンポジションをブレンドし独自路線を開拓するイラン孤高のサウンドアーティストSiavash Amini。自国の伝統音楽の研究や人の感情と宇宙の関連をコンセプトとした作品など、毎度面白いアプローチを仕掛ける人物ですが、今作はイラン史上最古のソロピアノ録音2曲を使用。様々なデジタル手法を用いて復刻した音源をネタに、彼らしい広大で玄人好みのエレクトロアコースティックに仕上げた超魅力的な構造。お馴染みエンボス加工スリーブ。







What remains after mutilating and reassembling an essential historical recording? How is it connected to a particular event in a grotesque and cyclical novella riddled with medical procedures of an aesthetic and deforming nature?

Malakoot – this spiral, centres on a decision made one afternoon by a character.

On a similar afternoon, full of anxiety, pressed by an unknowable presence in this city , I decided that the soundscape for such an inspiring work of fiction was a mutilated one; things collapsing in on themselves, self-decapitating, full of cuts and sutures.

The material for all the surgeries was two of the earliest solo piano recordings in Iran's history , played by an incredibly ordinary but, at the same time, fascinatingly suspicious character.

The procedures were performed both on the snippets and cuts of the recordings themselves and with the help of various digital methods, on synthesized resurrections made from their transcriptions.

music by Siavash Amini based on early Iranian solo piano recordings.
Thanks to Lawrence, Jordan and Tom without whom this release couldn't have happened. Design by Traianos Pakioufakis.