Saba Alizadeh – I May Never See You Again SMR003 – 08 July 2021Saba Alizadeh – I MAY NEVER SEE YOU AGAINSaba Alizadeh‘s “I May Never See You Again” represents on 9 tracks an incredibly exciting act of mutual inspiration – when Iranian scales and Western electroacoustic understanding powerfully unite. I May Never See You Again by Saba AlizadehBuy the beautiful 180gr vinyl, CD or stream the album here Iranian composer and Kamancheh virtuoso, Saba Alizadeh releases his second album “I May Never See You Again” on the newly founded Hamburg label 30M Records.Born in Tehran in 1983 to world-renowned tar and setar virtuoso and composer Hossein Alizadeh, Saba Alizadeh studied the Iranian Kamancheh – an ancient Persian violin – becoming one of the foremost players of the instrument of this day. Alizadeh later studied experimental sound art with Mark Trayle at the California Institute of the Arts and inspired by the conceptual approaches taught there, started composing music that deconstructs and abstracts Iranian traditions and scales into a new musical language and style.Influenced by Iranian harmonics, musique concrète and sophisticated, forward-looking beat science, Saba Alizadeh’s “I May Never See You Again” represent an incredibly exciting act of mutual inspiration – when Iranian scales and Western electroacoustic understanding powerfully unite.The nine predominantly instrumental tracks on the album fuse tradition and innovation inspiring meditations on the subject of memory. On the one hand, the credibility and resilience of one’s own memory is musically dissected, whilst on the other hand, Saba Alizadeh proceeds conceptually, deploying erstwhile dictators’ speeches in his music as a means to question the course of history.“I May Never See You Again” also features handpicked collaborations with musician Andreas Spechtl and electroacoustic sound artist Rojin Sharafi. Spechtl, singer of the band Ja, Panik, found fame in the German-speaking world primarily thanks to his song lyrics, in which he deconstructs words in a similarly abstract way as Saba Alizadeh does the music.Spechtl joins Alizadeh on two tracks for the album, while Vienna-based Iranian Sharafi joins on one. Saba Alizadeh 17 April 2021 No Comments Saba Alizadeh is an Iranian composer, musician and reputated virtuoso of the Kamancheh (Iranian spike fiddle). Influenced by Iranian harmonics, musique concrète and sophisticated, forward-looking beat science, Saba Alizadeh’s “I Read More »
Saba Alizadeh 17 April 2021 No Comments Saba Alizadeh is an Iranian composer, musician and reputated virtuoso of the Kamancheh (Iranian spike fiddle). Influenced by Iranian harmonics, musique concrète and sophisticated, forward-looking beat science, Saba Alizadeh’s “I Read More »