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01. Saba Alizadeh - Blood City
02. Saba Alizadeh - Dream
03. Saba Alizadeh - Colors Wove Me In Teheran
04. Saba Alizadeh - Would You Remember Me?
05. Saba Alizadeh - Elegy For Water
06. Saba Alizadeh - Scattered Memories
07. Saba Alizadeh - Ladan Dead End (Kamancheh Version)
08. Saba Alizadeh - Fever
09. Saba Alizadeh - Greetings To Earthfire
10. Saba Alizadeh - Fluid
ARTIST
TITLE
Scattered Memories
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
KR 060LP KR 060LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/19/2019

2021 repress forthcoming in October. On his debut album Scattered Memories, the composer, musician, and true master on the Iranian spike fiddle kamancheh Saba Alizadeh blends his instrumental virtuosity with spherical electronics, samples of Persian music instruments and field recordings from his hometown Tehran. Born in Tehran in 1983 as son of the world-renowned tar and setar virtuoso Hossein Alizadeh, Saba Alizadeh studied the Iranian spike fiddle with Saeed Farajpoury and Keyhan Kalhor, plus photography and later experimental sound art with Mark Trayle at the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. His musical activities that lead him all around the globe for performances (amongst others, at Carnegie Hall) branch into two different areas: on the one side Alizadeh is a highly-reputed virtuoso on his traditional instrument, on the other he likes to approach music from a more experimental/technological aspect in his electronic/electro-acoustic pieces. This not being enough, he founded Noise Works in 2014, a platform and label for organizing experimental concerts and for the transfer of knowledge of music technologies among young Iranian musicians which makes him a central figure at the forefront of the current, very vivid Persian music scene that gained a lot of attention through artists like Siavash Amini, Porya Hatami, and of course Sote who included a track by Alizadeh on the compilation Girih: Iranian Sound Artists (2018) that he had curated. In 2018, Alizadeh self-released his debut Scattered Memories on CD in Iran which now, in a reworked version, sees its deserved worldwide release on vinyl. Over the course of ten tracks, Alizadeh melts his two musical worlds into one: tradition meets modernism, eastern sounds meet western production, folklore meets contemporary electronics. An album that will appeal to an open-minded "world music" audience as well as fans of current streams like ambient or drone in its most subtle forms. 180 gram vinyl; Includes download code.