Alireza Mashayekhi/Ata Ebtekar

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This sounds very exciting, but I'm not familiar with Alireza or Ata Ebtekar at all. Is there anybody out there that's dipped into classic Persian Electronic Music at all?

PERSIAN ELECTRONIC MUSIC-Yesterday and Today 1966-2006 2CD (Sub
Rosa/)

2CD DIGIPACK + 20 PAGE BK

From Alireza Mashayekhi to Ata Ebtekar/Sote, the quantum leap of the very
unknown electronic music composed in Iran from the Sixties till today. Two
Iranian music masters who work (mainly) on ancestral structures to create
something radically new, who travel around the world to finally live and
work in their country - two vivid creators through the hazards of History.

Alireza Mashayekhi : a short biography
Alireza Mashayekhi was born in 1940 in Tehran, Iran. He is one of the
pioneers of modern music in Iran. Mashayekhi's works have been performed in
Iran and abroad for more than 35 years. Mashayekhi believes that
contemporary composers should create music in wide range of styles. His own
compositions have tended towards three major direction: pieces that are
directly inspired by Iranian music (e.g. Symphony No. 5, Persian Suite and
Shahrzad) and compositions that are not directly related to Iranian music
(e.g. Symphony No. 6, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra,Sonata for Piano)
and multicultural compositions (e.g. Symphony No. 8 and the electronic
composition East-West).

At the time of Stalin in the USSR, many pieces were composed with
predetermined identities in honor of Marxism and Leninism by the request of
the governmental authorities or by the artist's own whishes. Among these
pieces those with artistic rightfulness remained and they were honored in
both East and West, but the political weight of the other ones did not
succeed to help them survive.
Alireza Mashayekhi

Alireza Mashayekhi is regarded as a pioneer Iranian avant-garde composer
whose ideas and works, which have been performed in Iran and abroad for
more than 35 years, have greatly influenced the contemporary music in Iran..
Hooman Asadi of the University of Tehran, Iran

Ata Ebtekar aka Sote : a short biography
Ata Ebtekar aka Sote is an electronic composer, sound artist and recording
engineer who was born on September 2nd, 1972. His goal is to create unique
and timeless pieces of music that are not available anywhere except in his
mind. Sote is interested in keeping
the tuning of Persian classical scales (Radif) and melodies from old
Persian folk songs within a new electronic framework. Since he has a firm
conviction that rules and formulas have to be deconstructed and rethought,
he alters some of these modal systems from their original tonality and
rhythm (tradition). He has released several cds and vinyls on
Dielectric/RLR, Spundae and especially on Warp.

We're glad Sote's finally graced us with a full cd, this needs the time to
work its magic, to envelop the listener... Recommended. (Reviewed by
Aquarius Records)

Sote is for sure the most puzzling artist I've ever come across. His single
on Warp had been a shock. (Igloo magazine)

Tracklisting

CD1 Alireza Mashayekhi
01- Shur, Op.15 (1966)
02- Mithra, Op.90 (1982)
03- Development 2, Op.24 (1970)
04- East-West, Op.45 (1973)
05- Chahargah 1, Op.75 (1979)
06- Panoptikum 70, Op.27 (1970)
07- Stratosphaere 1, Op.46 (1973)
08- Yaad, Op.66 (1970)

CD2 Ata Ebtekar / Sote
01- Miniature Tone
02- Nashid
03- Saint Homayun
04- Synthetic Overture (Satan's Lullaby)
05- Micro Tuning
06- Breadth Digit (Glass Lung)
07- Robot Radif
08- Tahrir (Love-Birds Drowned In Sorrow)
09- Picture Of A Whisper
10- Cry
11- Lovaz
12- Niaaz
13- Plainsong
 

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sote did a record a while back on dialetic, it was more or less persian music stuck thru a few sonic manglers, wasn't really feeling it, not as much as the much better chop ups of egyptian music by mutamassik from a few years back, that stuff was ace.
 

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Mashayekhi was freely available for download on EarLabs some years ago. It probably still is; the site is a pretty interesting archive for electro-acoustics.
 
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