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ARTIST
9T ANTIOPE & SIAVASH AMINI
TITLE
Harmistice
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
HALLOW GROUND
CATALOG #
HG 1902LP
HG 1902LP
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
7/5/2019
9T Antiope
have made a name for themselves in the vibrant experimental music scene of Iran over the past years. Now based in Paris,
Sara Bigdeli Shamloo
and
Nima Aghiani
are expanding their stylistic scope and team up with long-time friend
Siavash Amini
for their debut release on Hallow Ground. After 2017's
Tar
(HG 1703CD/LP) and
Foras
the year after 2018 (HG 1805LP),
Harmistice
is Amini's third LP for the Swiss-based label and his first in collaboration with other artists. Recorded in Paris and Tehran, the four tracks are the result of "all the long hours of speaking online, being kilometers away, it is a love child of those short times we actually got to be physically in one place." Vocalist and lyricist Shamloo enters a dialogue with Aghiani and Amini's sound art, which is from restrained but interlocks voice and noise with striking subtlety.
Harmistice
seamlessly blends the visceral with the sublime, the abstract with the oh-too-real. From the very first second of "Blue As In Bleeding",
Harmistice
evokes a sense of suspended terror. Shrill frequencies and aleatoric bursts of feedback give way to a hard-hitting bass drum until Shamloo's voice arises from the chaos with an uneasy clarity. It's the perfect opening for a record that is built upon stark contrasts like this one. Amini and Aghiani bring together synthetic sounds with acoustic instruments, creating a tangible tension on which Shamloo's sometimes sensitive, sometimes emotionally detached delivery thrives. "It's all based on a dream, a nightmare about war," she says in regards to her lyrics that move between poetic abstraction and first-person prose, blurring the lines between lived experience and sinister premonition.
Harmistice
takes inventory after the oneiric damage has been dealt in real life. As a whole,
Harmistice
is thus as ambiguous as its title suggests. As an all-too-lucid dream about unspeakable things that are being lent a voice it overwhelms the senses with an unheard-of volume. Drawn from the depths of the subconscious,
Harmistice
may just be the most challenging album in either 9T Antiope or Amini's discography. 180 gram white vinyl.
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