Siavash Amini - eremos
(c) 2023 American Dreams Records
Artist....: Siavash Amini
Album.....: eremos
Source....: WEB/MP3
Tracks....: 4
Genre.....: Electronic
Label.....: American Dreams Records
Encoder...: LAME 3.100
Quality...: 320 kbps / 441kHz / Joint Stereo
URL.......: http://https://deezer.com/album/478788475
Tracklist:
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1. Wayward 8:31
2. The Darkness About the Pole 10:32
3. A Desert of Immobile Winds (Pt. 1) 8:19
4. A Desert of Immobile Winds (Pt. 2) 9:40
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37:02
Total:89.15 MB / 37:02
Release Notes:
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ôEremosö is a Greek adjective meaning uninhabited, desert, or remote, but ôthe
important thing for me is 'uninhabited',ö says Iranian sound artist Siavash
Amini, explaining the title of his new LP. For over a decade, Amini has crafted
tight, detailed sound pieces drawing from electronic music, electroacoustic
experimentation, and classical music traditions, working in solo and group
configurations û see collaborations with Iranian duo 9T Antiope, American
scholar and poet Eugene Thacker, French ambient composer Saσad, and more. On
eremos, Amini considers two passages from Iranian philosopher-poet Ibn SinaÆs
Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, a mystical Romance on which the more widely-read Hayy ibn
Yaqdhan by Ibn Tufayl is based û the first passage musing on space, desolation,
life, and non-life; the second with light, darkness, precipice, and
transcendence. Across four longform compositions, he interprets those selfsame
themes with patience, curiosity, and necessity.
ThereÆs a rootlessness to AminiÆs sound and toolkit û unplaceable but nomadic û
outside chronologyÆs nagging sway. Take lead single ôThe Darkness About the
Pole,ö which opens with a sustaining coarse hiss û is it sand through the
hourglass? Needle tracing a recordÆs center label? Wind? Heavier components
enter as sharply-outlined fog. Theirs is a slow arid dance from nowhere
traveling somewhere, moving through ghost towns, quarantined museums, and desert
plains ù not a denizen in sight.
Though the music is instrumental, Amini enlisted a collaborator and world class
desolation expert for additional, worded context:
torrential sandstorms
and nocturnal rains
cleave an abyss in two -
a distant muted arc
of small melodies -
locusts in a cosmic disarray
mark dead time
ù Eugene Thacker
Uninhabited, indeed.