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A Guide to Iran's Electronic Underground
SCENE REPORT A Guide to Iran's Electronic Underground By Tristan Bath · April 06, 2017 "By the time I was a teenager living in Tehran, underground music was all rock, metal, and hip-hop," says Siavash Amini from his home in the Iranian capital.
Liberating Music: Inside Iran's Growing Experimental Music Scene
The first countries that come to mind when thinking about a living and breathing electronic music scene are Germany, England and France - the usual suspects. Few, however, will mention Iran - a country whose music came to incorporate more and more western influences starting from the 50s.
Absence - A Compilation of Iranian Artists | Fluid Radio
"Faced with the task of writing about artists from Iran it is tempting to oversimplify and go with the easiest way to address them - the way most western media has always treated art coming not just from Iran but from middle east in general.
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9T Antiope: Of Murk and Shallow Water EP
9T Antiope, the duo of Nima Aghiani and Sara Bigdeli Shamloo, hail from Tehran and live in Paris, and from the sound of this self-released EP, they may as well be time travelers, for all we know.
Great Records You May Have Missed: Spring 2019
It's impossible to hear all the music that comes out every day, but with this list we hope to direct your attention to generally overlooked albums our writers and editors have been returning to over the last few months.
The Wire 442
On the cover: Lyric & Robert Hood : The first family of techno reflect on salvation through dance music and the emancipatory power of technology. By DeForrest Brown, Jr. Plus: Susan Alcorn : With pedal steel undergoing a resurgence outside of its natural habitat in country music, the US player prepares to release her first album as bandleader.
The Wire 425
On the cover: Moor Mother : As Camae Ayewa prepares for her appearances at Birmingham's Supersonic festival, Philadelphia's globally active artist, performer, poet and activist discusses time, destiny and futurism. By Emily Pothast. Also in this issue: Ellen Arkbro : Her latest album CHORDS takes the Swedish composer into a new realm of sound and space.
9T Antiope return to eilan records with Grimace
9T Antiope have released their sophomore album for eilan records. Grimace follows their label debut , which was released in early 2017. Vocalist Sara Bigdeli Shamloo's solemn poetry and composer Nima Aghiani's stark, cinematic soundscapes occupy rhythmically distinct but tonally overlapping planes in order to, as the label writes, "narrate tiny bits or huge landscapes of the chaotic worlds they vision, along with their inhabitants."
[Album Streaming]: 9T Antiope - "Grimace" | SonOfMarketing
9T Antiope is the experimental duo that includes Iranian musicians Nima Aghiani and Sara Bigdeli Shamloo. They recently released a new full-lenght. Grimace is out now via Eilean Records. It follows 2019's Nocebo and Harmisitice, a collaborative work with Siavash Amini. Full streaming is available via Bandcamp. Listen below.
9t Antiope - Grimace - Nowamuzyka.pl
Mikrus. Dobrze jest móc znów wrócić do katalogu francuskiego wydawcy Eilean rec. Od dłuższego czasu czekałem na album, który umożliwi mi dłuższy opis któregoś z ich podopiecznych. Taka sposobność nadarzyła się za sprawą wielce intrygujących artystów. Warto więc porzucić swoje bieżące zajęcia i wsłuchać się w przeszywający, najnowszy album 9t Antiope „Grimace".
Drone duo 9T Antiope debut on PTP with new album Nocebo
9T Antiope, the Paris-based, Iranian drone duo comprised of composers Nima Aghiani and Sara Bigdeli Shamloo, will debut on PTP with a new album, Nocebo. Nocebo is the second phase of a trilogy of releases titled Isthmus:Nocebo:Placebo which, according to the label, "recounts the stories of beings, who have given up on their space and time, thus forcing themselves into complete isolation and eventually a self-induced comatose state."
The Wire 421
On the cover: Stephen Malkmus : He redefined US indie rock as the frontman of Pavement and leads The Jicks through pastures strange and proglike. But does Stephen Malkmus's intimate new solo album expose the man behind the smirk? By Raymond Cummings.
موسیقی نویز چارچوب تحلیلی و زیبایی‌شناسی متفاوت و خاص خود را دارد. هنوز هم بسیاری این نوع موسیقی را با برچسب‌هایی چون «گوش‌خراش» توصیف می‌کنند و یا حتا قائل به موسیقی بودن آن نیستند. موسیقی نویز به لحاظ تاریخی سبقه اجتماعی و سیاسی محکمی در اعتراض دارد با این حال، به ویژه در نویز قرن بیست و یکم می‌توان همان زیبایی متعارف و دسترس‌پذیرتر انواع دیگر موسیقی را پیدا کرد. اجرای مشترک ۹T Antiope (گروه متشکل از سارا بیگدلی شاملو و نیما عقیانی) با راینر کولبرگر (فیلم‌ساز و ویژوال آرتیست اتریشی) در همین رده قرار می‌گیرد. اجرای کمیسیون شده و تبادلی میان SET و CTM که می‌توان آن را گل سرسبد اجراهای این فستیوال دانست. کامپوزیشن استخوان‌دار با معماری خوش‌ساخت، پرداختِ به کانسپت قوی، پلات‌بندی، فراز و فرود و روایت معنادار که در آن همه چیز با روندی حساب شده به پیش می‌رفت.
Stream 9T Antiope & Siavash Amini's Harmistice - The Wire
"Formed in 2014, 9T Antiope's name is borrowed from a double asteroid found within the main belt in our solar system," writes Maha ElNabawi in The Wire 412. "Conceptually, the duo's language is often driven by that of the cosmos, where destruction becomes an act of creation, as debris from a predicted galactic collision is expected to merge and subsequently form a new galaxy."
Music Review: 9T Antiope - Nocebo
REMS, the debut solo album by Nima Aghiani (one half of 9T Antiope with Sara Bigdeli Shamloo), still haunts me. It lingers and still I shudder, not because its onslaught of power noise is especially frightening on its own, but because of the emptiness that the noise clears, the clearing of a silent space in its pounding doom.
The Quietus | Features | Quietus Charts | The Quietus Albums Of The Year So Far Chart 2019
Over the past four weeks, my Quietus co-founder John Doran has been broadcasting a series on the phenomenon we're calling New Weird Britain on Radio 4. I've been tuning in not just with pride that my friend is on the airwaves, but also a genuine sense that this perhaps marks one of the greatest achievements of our digital websheet in the eleven years since we launched.
9T Antiope & Siavash Amini - Harmistice
Four gripping works of odd contradictions, ambiguity and intensity - just as the punning title promises - from an Iranian team-up of sombre duo 9T Antiope and the ever-busy Siavash Amini. As ever with 9T, lyricist Sara Bigdeli Shamloo gives, with a clear and handsome voice, expressive textuality to a style where it is usually absent.
9T Antiope announce new album Nocebo, premiere track "Living Through Sleeping Through"
Paris-based, Iranian duo Nima Aghiani and Sara Bigdeli Shamloo - who record as 9T Antiope - are presumably very happy to be sharing new music. Their third album Nocebo simultaneously follows and expands upon 2017's Isthmus. As it is the second installment of a trilogy titled Isthmus:Nocebo:Placebo, we now collectively arrive at the mid-point of this sonic journey.
9T Antiope & Siavash Amini - Harmistice | Fluid Radio
Warning: Harmistice is loud. In a perfect world, it should have the black-and-white dividing lines of a warning label plastered over its front cover, a temporary tourniquet in the form of a Parental Advisory message holding in a leak caused by its noisy onslaught. The blood, as well as the warning label, sticks to its sleeve.
Album of the Day: 9T Antiope, "Nocebo"
ALBUM OF THE DAY Album of the Day: 9T Antiope, "Nocebo" By Jordan Reyes · March 01, 2019 For an album using a clinical term as a title (the nocebo effect is essentially the inverse of the placebo effect), 9T Antiope's Nocebo is an intensely personal document-dense, visceral, and sensory.
Premiere: 9T Antiope - Living Through Sleeping Through
Escapism is a key tenet of noise music. Through raging, transcendent catharsis, to electrifying live intensity - noise, in all of its myriad forms, is a genre built around moving elsewhere within ourselves.
ROCKERILLA 466 Giugno 2019
(di Raffaello Russo)OLIVER CHERER - Un trasformista nostalgico - Recensione album TANIKA CHARLES - Intervista (di Gianni Tarello) OLD FASHIONED LOVER BOY - Intervista (di Riccardo Cavrioli) W.H.
Harmitice by 9T Antiope & Siavash Amini
9T Antiope & Siavash Amini | HarmasticeHallow Ground (LP/DL) Harmitice is the second vocal-based album Siavash Amini has been involved in just six months, and it is testament to his ability as a composer, and collaborator, that it is so remarkably different than its predecessor.
9T Antiope ~ Isthmus/Nocebo
As Nocebo is the second of a trilogy, we're traveling back in time to start with Isthmus. Two years ago, the Iranian duo of Nima Aghiani and Sara Bigdeli Shamloo (9T Antiope) released their second album as part of Eilean Records' winter slate. The album, like most of the duo's music, remains incredibly hard to classify.
The sound of despair might be best explained through rawly animal terms—of grunting and howling that grinds the ear to pulp. To create music in a historical moment such as this (a uniquely despairing one) is to reckon exactly with that animal shout, but also to find a space in which to drag some kind of poetry from it. Nocebo, the latest release from Iranian-born, Paris-based duo 9T Antiope—out from New York label PTP (Purple Tape Pedigree)—excavates exactly these emotions. It might only be the second month of the year, but we’ve already found something necessary, haunting, and beautiful. Read the article on igloomag.com >
CTM Festival 2019: Dance music is not in crisis, it's more hopeful than ever
This year, Berlin's CTM Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary with a truly diverse lineup of innovative club and experimental music. FACT's John Twells endured the entire 10-day marathon and witnessed a seismic shift in the global dance continuum. I first visited Germany in 2002 and had little travel experience.
9T Antiope seek out the detrimental effects of negative expectations in an excerpt at the comatose core of Nocebo's noise & drone
9T Antiope (aka Nima Aghiani and Sara Bigdeli Shamloo) is releasing album Nocebo via New York's PTP Recordings on February 15, with a preview excerpt of 'The Whole Ocean Floods In - The Whole Room Pours Out' premiering on AQNB today.
Listen to the psychological sonic disorder of 9T Antiope's Nocebo
Is this music to drive to? Is this music to dance to? Is this music to riot to? This is music to reshape your reality to. This is music to unlock your nightmares to. This is music that will never make you feel comfortable. This is the sound of 9T Antiope's Nocebo cassette that is [...]
The Wire 399
On the cover: Royal Trux : Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty's harmolodic scuzz rock shock unit crawl back from the beyond after several years of solo action. By Tony Rettman. Plus Raphael Rogiński : The Warsaw based guitarist plies his inimitable trade across rock, jazz, folk and improv, from Jewish diasporic music to ingenious interpretations of John Coltrane.
music won't save you
9T ANTIOPE & SIAVASH AMINI - Harmistice (Hallow Ground, 2019) Non è certo una novità l'incredibile vitalità della scena sperimentale iraniana, costituita come poche altre da contatti e intersezioni tra artisti. Una di queste associa le impetuose sculture sonore di Siavash Amini e il drone-folk visionario del duo di Nima Aghiani e Sara Bigdeli Shamloo....
9T Antiope & Siavash Amini - Harmistice
Band: 9T Antiope & Siavash Amini Album: Harmistice Genre: Electronica / Noise / Ambient Label: Hallow Ground VÖ: 7. Juni 2019 Webseite: 9T Antiope / Siavash Amini Es ist kein Kampf, aber ein intensives Ringen, was diese drei Musikerinnen und Musiker hier veranstalten.
The Wire 398
On the cover: The Residents : Beyond the eyeballs, still oddballs: The Residents look back on a decades-long career and present a macabre new album concerning the spectacular train crashes of the last century. By Sam Lefebvre. Plus Seymour Wright : The improvising saxophonist has made London's Oto Project Space his base for collaboration, experimentation and the transformation of ideas into sound.
The Quietus | Features | Three Songs No Flash | Fear, Anger, Love: The Quietus At CTM Festival 2017
At 2017's edition of CTM Berlin, a festival now in its eighteenth year, Karl Smith finds a project dedicated not just to forward-thinking music and experimentation but also to a sense of unification in a time when it is sorely needed
New From Eilean... | Fluid Radio
On these two Eilean. Rec releases from Antiope, and Monolyth & Cobalt respectively, the generic ambient listener's achilles heel is buckled. Tension gives way to surefire emotion, and the listener is overwhelmed with love... Let us start with Monolyth and Cobalt. Said to be the last music the duo release under the name, the affair here is a triumph.
[EP] 9T Antiope - Of Murk And Shallow Water | indiemusic
" Une histoire d'amour et de ténèbres ", dirait Amos Oz. Déchiffrant les pierres runiques de leur premier album " Syzygys ", 9T Antiope s'engouffre désormais dans une noirceur sans précédent. Une forme expérimentale plus appuyée que la première, plus sinueuse aussi, mais qui libère une voix claire de nymphe vénéneuse.
The Quietus | News | LISTEN: Experimental Music From Iran
The Flaming Pines label this week released Absence, a compilation curated by Iranian musician Arash Akbari collecting more than 70 minutes of all new music by artists involved in the experimental scene of Iran. Above, you can check out track three on the compilation, 9T Antiope's 'Venator'.
9T Antiope | Discover music on NTS
The "9T Antiope" duo band consists of Iranian musicians "Nima Aghiani" and "Sara Bigdeli Shamloo". The band formed in 2014 alongside the "Migrain Sq." trio band, which also includes "Pouya Pour-Amin" and has existed since 2002. Working since 2014 with this new band, their debut album "Syzygys" was released in December 2015 by "Unperceived Records".
This Week's Six Pillars Show - New Music From Iran IX
This week we sample 'Absence', a 70 minute CD compilation of minimal experimental music from Iran, which unsurprisingly and pleasingly, sounds like it came from nowhere in particular. Many contributors have been played before on Six Pillars and we're pleased to see them taking off. Absence was released February 8, 2016 on Flaming Pines, an...
9T Antiope - Grimace (Recensioni mini album, 2019)
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9T Antiope - Isthmus :: Le Recensioni di OndaRock
Il duo iraniano del progetto 9T Antiope si forma nel 2014 dalla collaborazione tra del musicista Nima Aghiani e la vocalist Sara Bigdeli Shamloo; l'esordio è del 2015 con "Syzygys" e dopo poco più di anno, nel 2017, pubblicano - con la collaborazione dell'affermato musicista ambient-drone iraniano/francese Siavash Amini e
9T Antiope - Grimace :: Le Recensioni di OndaRock
La Eilean Records aveva già prodotto il secondo album del duo di musicisti iraniani 9T Antiope nel 2017, " Isthmus", lavoro che era una metafora dei due mondi (occidentale e orientale) costretti a separarsi per motivi religiosi e politici.
9T Antiope & Siavash Amini - Harmistice :: Le Recensioni di OndaRock
L'Iran è un paese dalle mille contraddizioni, combattuto da decenni tra estremismo religioso e desiderio di libertà di una delle popolazioni con la più bassa età media del mondo, tra l'infamia di essere appellati come stato "canaglia" da chi manipola l'opinione pubblica occidentale e un fermento culturale delle nuove generazioni insospettabile per chi si lascia ingannare da falsi luoghi comuni.
9T Antiope - Of Murk and Shallow Water (self-released)
Το ιρανικό σχήμα με έδρα στο Παρίσι παράγει ένα ηχητικό τοπίο που δεν έχει καταγωγή ή προορισμό. Αντίθετα, μοιάζει να προέρχεται από ένα ονειρικό βασίλειο κάποιας μηχανικής φαντασίας. Η ηχητική μάζα και οι αυθόρμητες συχνότητες που συνιστούν τη μουσική τους μοιάζουν με χιλιάδες μικρά αιχμηρά κομμάτια γυαλιού.
9T Antiope
9T Antiope Of Murk And Shallow Water (Self Released) Oubliez un instant le monde qui vous encercle et vous asphyxie. Retenez votre souffle l'espace de 17 minutes, le temps de tomber en catatonie. Plongez vous dans le temps qui passe et laisse des cicatrices. Avec leur EP Of Murk And Shallow Water, le duo iranien...
Various Artists ~ Tiny Portraits
Flaming Pines' Tiny Portraits series returns with four singles inspired by international streetscapes. This is the best of the batches to date, offering an incredible array of variety and a few sonic surprises. The series' subtitle is "small renderings of place in memory". To aid the listener, a sound map is updated whenever a batch...
9T Antiope - Nhung Nguyen - Sophia Loizou
Γιορτή της Γυναίκας σήμερα. Κάθε γιορτή είναι ξεχωριστή καθώς απομονωμένη σε μια ημέρα, υποδηλώνει την διαφοροποίηση της από τις υπόλοιπες του χρόνου, αυτές στις οποίες η θέση των Γυναικών υπολείπεται ξεκάθαρα των προνομίων που απολαμβάνουν από τη γένεση τους οι Άντρες. Ο δρόμος που καλούνται να βαδίσουν είναι δύσβατος ανάμεσα στη σιωπή, τα πρότυπα και...
[LP] 9T Antiope - Syzygys | indiemusic
Projet curieux, exaltant et galvanisant, l'expérimentation de 9T Antiope est relative aux équations astrophysiques et émotionnelles, celles qui décortiquent la mécanique du ciel et du cœur. " Syzygys " est comme une pierre runique, fascinante et indéchiffrable.
9T Antiope "Grimace"
eilean] Rarefatte divagazioni attraverso sghembi paesaggi sospesi in una dimensione emozionale colma di tangibile inquietudine. Sempre più seducente e permeabile si palesa l'universo sonoro di 9T Antiope, duo iraniano giunto al suo quarto lavoro e per la seconda volta investito della preziosa opportunità di segnare un punto sulla mappa eilean.
music won't save you
9T ANTIOPE - Grimace (Eilean, 2019) Dei quattro lavori finora pubblicati dal duo formato da Nima Aghiani e da Sara Bigdeli Shamloo, ai quali si aggiunge la recente collaborazione con Siavash Amini ("Harmistice", 2019), "Grimace" è, almeno in superficie, quello più accessibile. Quanto meno, con i suoi appena ventiquattro minuti, si tratta di quello più...
9T Antiope & Siavash Amini - Harmistice :: Le Recensioni di OndaRock
L'Iran è un paese dalle mille contraddizioni, combattuto da decenni tra estremismo religioso e desiderio di libertà di una delle popolazioni con la più bassa età media del mondo, tra l'infamia di essere appellati come stato "canaglia" da chi manipola l'opinione pubblica occidentale e un fermento culturale delle nuove generazioni insospettabile per chi si lascia ingannare da falsi luoghi comuni.
African Paper | 9T ANTIOPE / SIAVASH AMINI: Harmistice
Es gibt sicher Angstträume, die von bedrückender Stille sind. Handeln solche Träume vom Krieg, so ist ihnen wahrscheinlich eher eine laute, von schrillem Lärm und heftigen Detonationen durchsetzte Tonspur angemessen. "Harmistice", dessen Titel ein Wortspiel zwischen "harm" und "armstice" (Waffenstillstand) darstellt, erzählt von solchen Träumen und wählt dazu eine dunkle, über weite Strecken industriell-noisige Klanggestalt.
Hainbach, Sote oraz 9T Antiope & Siavash Amini - Nowamuzyka.pl
Pocztówki ze świata. Pamiętacie jeszcze pocztówki dźwiękowe? Kształt pocztówki krył w sobie cienką warstwę tworzywa sztucznego, a w nim wyryte były rowki z analogowym zapisem dźwięku. Odtwarzane na gramofonie były chodliwym towarem w krajach bloku socjalistycznego. W ten sposób muzyka z zachodu trafiała pod nasze strzechy.
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The Best Albums of 2019: #80 - 61
BEST OF 2019 The Best Albums of 2019: #80 - 61 By Bandcamp Daily Staff · December 10, 2019 If you've come here looking for some kind of overarching throughline in these 100 records, I'll tell you right now: you can forget it.
2019 Rewind: Contributors' Charts - The Wire
Jennifer Lucy Allan Tunes Of Negation Reach The Endless Sea (Cosmo Rhythmatic)Klein Lifetime (ijn Inc)Bill Orcutt Odds Against Tomorrow (Palilalia)Viridian Ensemble A Cephalopod (TBC Editions)Mosquitoes Vortex Veering Back To Venus (Feeding Tube)Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/Oren Ambarchi In The Past Only Geniuses Were Capable Of Staging The Perfect Crime (Also Known As
Nejlepší hudba roku 2019
Karel Veselý (hudební publicista, spisovatel) Nejlepší pocit na světě je, když muzika posluchače teleportuje do úplně jiného místa a času. S albem Triad od vietnamsko-čínského rappera jménem Triad God jsem se na jaře přesunul do neonové megapole ponořené v smogu a dešti.
ACL 2019 ~ Top Ten Drone
Drone music doesn't need to be scary; there's nothing inherently frightening about elongated tones. Yet the drone genre does seem predisposed toward darkness. Just look at the cover art for Black to Comm; or the compositional corpses found in the BABEL hardback shown to the left.
Against a silent 2019 - This year's 20 top records
2019: η χρονιά της ωριμότητας! Κάπως έτσι θα την αποκαλούσαμε κι αυτό για δύο λόγους. Ο πρώτος, ο βασικός λόγος που γράφονται αυτές οι γραμμές, έχει να κάνει με την κορυφαία εικοσάδα των δίσκων που ξεχωρίσαμε για φέτος, όπου συναντάμε την ωρίμανση της δουλειάς που επιδεικνύουν ονόματα, τα οποία ακολουθούμε τα τελευταία χρόνια.
2019 sans le confort(misme) - 100 albums : #20 à #1 - Indie Rock Mag
100 albums, en plus des concerts (à suivre) et EPs (par ici), avec pour seule règle de n'en retenir qu'un par artiste ou projet, hors collaborations. Un lien sur le titre du disque en question pour lire la suite lorsqu'il s'agit d'une chronique (...)
Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #31: 2017 End-of-Year Edition
Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds is back. It's a whole year since the last edition of this column, for which I can only apologise. I've been writing about music for around a decade now, usually for little or no monetary reward, and 2017 was the year in which I briefly gave up (almost unconsciously) in the midst of other stresses and strains.
Στην αναζήτηση των νέων, σύγχρονων, μουσικών τάσεων - Το Περιοδικό
Δεν είναι καθόλου καινούρια τούτη η στήλη. Έκανε την πορεία της για αρκετό καιρό, στο παρελθόν ("Δίφωνο", "Jazz& Τζαζ") πέρασε στην διαθεσιμότητα και έρχεται και πάλι στο προσκήνιο του φιλόξενου "Περιοδικού". Κυρίως νέες μουσικές θα παρουσιάζει αλλά δεν θα παραλείπει να μεταφέρει δημιουργικές προτάσεις από το κυρίως ρεύμα της δισκογραφίας.
De Beste 106 van 2019 - Volg de lijst!
Op zondag 5 januari blikt Radio Scorpio naar jaarlijkse gewoonte nog één keer terug op de muzikale hoogtepunten van het voorbije jaar, dit traditioneel met een stevige eindejaarslijst van 106 albums, naar analogie met de frequentie van de radiozender. De lijst wordt gepresenteerd tijdens een marathonuitzending van maar liefst 11 uur vanuit de studio in de Naamsestraat.