Rock, electroacoustic, and traditional Iranian mix in Behrouz Pashaei LP

Fusions too often prove superficial or homogenize traditional elements into an empty blur. Not so in the new outing from Behrouz Pashaei, who draws deep from the well of his exceptional traditional Iranian musicianship, interweaving it into a new, emotional electroacoustic direction on Encounter.

Premiere: “Lips Seeking the Forbidden” video as Tehran’s Sote joins SVBKVLT

With insistent phasing tones ringing in your ears in phasing, tense microtonal tunings, sawing timbres in the background, Sote’s Ministry of Tall Tales for SVBKVLT opens immediately with deep-inflicted wounds. The artist Ata Ebtekar talks to us about desperate mental states as we try to share that pain with the video for “Lips Seeking the Forbidden.”

Peter Kirn - February 21, 2024

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