............Ata Ebtekar and The Iranian Orchestra For New Music performing works of Alireza Mashayekhi
This is a limited edition vinyl-only release on Isounderscore. A wonderful label from San Francisco, California.
Release Date: January 20th, 2009
Label Website: www.isounderscore.com
Tracklisting: A1. Ornamental A2. Little Tales3 B1. Pearly Gates B2. Little Tales 4 B3. Broken Silence
B4. Little Tales 1 C1. Meta XY D1. Phonata D2. Little Tales 2 D3. Tonus
Quote from LP insert:
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"For this collaboration project, Alireza Mashayekhi’s selected classical and orchestral pieces are deconstructed by Ebtekar using sound sources such as live concert recordings and studio
recording files, drawing upon electroacoustic music aesthetics and techniques. These sound sources and compositions were
transformed via electronic processing, rearranged and decomposed utilizing sound generators, effect boxes, modular
synthesizers and samplers. Finally, Ebtekar programs synthetic sounds and adds new electronic harmonies, melodies and
soundscapes to the sonic palette of Western classical music and Persian instrumentation for a unique musical experience."
From Isounderscore Press Release:................................
An ambitious, extremely complex, and sonically rich project that gives us an immense pleasure to release. An incredible
collaboration between Ebtekar and Alireza Mashayekhi's Iranian Orchestra for New Music in Tehran, Iran involving dozens
of trained musicians. Ebtekar has recently returned to the Bay Area from his three year stay in Iran where he closely
worked with legendary composer Alireza Mashayekhi. The album spans 50 minutes crystallizing acoustic instruments and....
electronic music composition with ten tracks fully realized by Ebtekar and Mashayekhi's orchestra.
Presented here is a full-length album involving dozens of trained musicians performing works written by legendary Iranian classical and electronic music composer Alireza Mashayekhi in which Ebtekar was granted freedom by Mashayekhi himself to arrange and transform these compositions into fully realized pieces using his techniques of synthesis and electronic manipulation.
"Ornamental" continues to explore even further than that which was presented in Sub Rosa's 2007 anthology, "Persian Electronic Music (Yesterday and Today 1966-2006)". The album also continues the radical experimental departure from his early electronic music work as Sote in the 12"'s published by Dielectric and Warp Records.
Ebtekar's work continues to be painfully singular and shines bright in its ability to eliminate barriers the world over between noise, silence and modern electronic music composition.
All music recorded in Tehran, Iran.
Mastered by Thomas Dimuzio at Gench Studios in San Francisco, CA
Artwork and Design by Brandon Nickell