Label: Creel Pone

凄い音源がCreel Poneラインナップ入り!!イランの現代音楽に大きな影響を与えている前衛作曲家でありパイオニア、その作品は35年以上にわたりイラン国内外で演奏されている偉人Alireza Mashayekhi。中古市場で滅多に見る事の無い氏の初期音源を纏めた最高にお得な編集集成版が登場。自国Ahang Roozより発表された1974年の1st LP、米Retro Recordsから1980年に出た無題の2作品、そして未発表の音源までを追加したこの上ない充実の内容であり、Jon Appletonも使用したNEDシステムを用いた音源も収録。







This (originally, the first of the two eponymous Retro LPs on its own; #AM180) was the 42nd of the original "Proto Creel Pone" (P.C.P.) titles assembled ca. 2003, once again extended vastly here in 2025 via the inclusion of the other (impossible to find! It took 15 years; #AM280) eponymous Retro Records title of Synclavier Synthesizer System I/II music, as well as the 1974 Ahang Rooz set of his formative experimental chamber work (incredible!) and, in the spirit of this 20th Anniversary push to find all extant/relevant material, the extra/bonus add-on of the entirety of his apropos un/issued Tape-through-Digital-Workstation "Opuses" at the tail-end of the second disc & the entirety of the third (check the tracklisting down below to your left; this is an epic "Extension" ala the Alwin Nikolais [CP 000.36 CD] set in how a single LP could be fleshed out to almost 4 hours of music!)

Persian composer Alireza Mashayeki has long been something of an inscrutable figure; nestled deep within Darmstadt-generation of composers, he left Iran in the late 50s to study first at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, then at the Instituut Voor Sonologie in Utrecht w/ Gottfried Michael Koenig. Debuting on the vaunted Philips "Electronic Panorama" set (see [CP 000.10 CD]) his recorded output in the interim has been few & far between, and in fact the LPs covered here form the entirety of his vinyl-era output! Consisting largely of grinding 16-bit synthesis utilizing the nascent NED systems (the very same Jon Appleton - see [CP 046 CD] - et.al were working with simultaneously; essentially the "Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer") these pieces form a palpable link between those early MIT/New England pre-Nyquist algorithms & such contemporary-era software-wreckers as Florian Hecker, Russel Haswell, et.al.

Presenting all available detail of AM180 & AM280 across 5 panels (the s/t Ahang Rooz LP on the 6th, recreated from the Web 0.9 .gifs on file) this is a wonderful replication of this 22-year old love-letter to Mashayeki's conceptual brilliance.