Omid has been a guest on Six Pillars since the days of Myspace, (around 2006) and his career in USA has flourished since we first were in touch. Based in California, Omid began creating heavily sampled hip hop and other forms of electronic music for film and music release after a bachelor in recording arts … Continue reading
July 12th – the sweetest vocals from Ramallah by singer /songwriter Asnam L. Masrah, أصنام المسرح, with her series of solo home-made recordings and electronica collaborations with Muqata’a (Boycott). Interview below. In Arabic her lyrics: Complex questions and cloudy mysteries emptiness judging consequences errors Should I write about our present society? or should I go … Continue reading
Heavily involving with SlomoGang a bunch of hip hop and graffiti artists in Tehran, founder Alex Ak is himself a young producer with a good few releases under his belt. Half Italian, half-Iranian Alex Ak produces and writes all his music himself , a good deal of which up till now has been hip hop … Continue reading
As part of our #IranUKSonics residency running until Dec 20th, we feature a series of interviews with each of the five selected participants. Born in Shiraz, now a street artist and producer in the capital of Iran, Heckmat(t) is part of hip-hop label Maktab-B and has collaborated with DJs and MCs, and DJs himself. With … Continue reading
The ever-rising trend of breaking in Tehran (often called professional aerobics over there). Several documentaries have been made about this and although you don’t often hear the participants speak about what it means to them, in this video the appreciative noises by the crowd tell all. Below that, an amateur video of one mans’ trip … Continue reading
So we’ve been playing Malkovich Music tracks for over two years now (despite swear words and superfluous gesturing) but they guy needs a boost so please download his music for *free* and pump up attention on this USA-based Iranian rapper. Continue reading
Propelled by the story of Deeyah (aka the Muslim Madonna) and her encouragement of other Muslim girls to make music, Jus1Jam came all the way from Bradford for a discussion on being a Muslim and a musician at the same time, and to read her lyrics as poetry.Deeyah’s career caused a lot of trouble and … Continue reading
