The Wire Magazine‘s October 2016 issue, 392, features this article on the electronic music being made in Iran today. The Wire maintains its quality of work via magazine purchases, but as it is not deliverable in Iran, they have agreed for us to post it here. The article is also available as .pdf, hosted on … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
This and next episode on Six Pillars we commissioned two shows from Tehran-based producer Siavash Amini, aka The Waterfront. This week we looks at new ambient music released from Iran in 2014. Next Tuesday we’ll be hearing about IDM/Techno and noise from Amini. Earlier episodes of New Music from Iran, and this time last year … Continue reading
This week on Six Pillars we’ve commissioned two shows from Tehran-based producer Siavash Amini, aka The Waterfront. This week’s episode looks at new ambient music released from Iran in 2014. Earlier episodes, and this time last year in fact, we heard Amini discuss his methods for composition and research online and about the state of … Continue reading
This week’s show revisits the album The Storm Leaves Us Quietly by Siavash Amini, aka The Waterfront (released 2012), who speaks on being in Iran and making ambient electronic music, his second album and working with a European label when he himself has not yet left the country. The jocular and prolific Amini makes a … Continue reading
Siavash Amini, aka The Waterfront, speaks to us from Iran on making music, his new and only second album The Storm Leaves Us Quietly and working with a label in Spain. This interview was recorded in early September 2012. Sadly Soundcloud removed all of ResonanceFM’s audio irrespective of whether it was speech or music based … Continue reading
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