A Trail of Laughters, by Siavash Amini

A Trail of Laughters

by Siavash Amini

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unruh2525 I have loved Siavish Amini for a few years now and this album takes his art into utterly unpredictable and beautiful directions. Also if Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek) likes it then that's the only stamp of approval necessary. I have a sincere question for Mr Amini which is not intended to insult anyone's faith or deepen our stupid-enough divisions but if I were to ask an Iranian mullah "How can instrumental music possibly be an affront to Allah ?" how would he reply ? Favorite track: Daniâl My son, Where did you vanish?.

Joe Muggs This is deep sonic magic - properly transporting to some deep, deep spaces inside the mind. Up there Oöphoi and Asmust Tietchens's work with Thomas Köner for creation of such enveloping eerie landscapes... Favorite track: Daniâl My son, Where did you vanish?.

Giuseppe Frigeni oneiric, hallucinatory, dense, ominous, soundscapes from a new entry in my collection.
A distant, subterranean, hazy feeling of middle-eastern ghosts in desolate and windy sandscapes
I will look for other works

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Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek) A fantastic audio trip!

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1.	The Oncome 12:02	buy track
2.	Crocuta crocuta 07:28	buy track
3.	Daniâl My son, Where did you vanish? 07:24	buy track
4.	Kaftâr-Khal 11:44	buy track

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From Siavash Amini
A series of distressing dreams started this whole thing. A few years ago someone pointed out that my repeating dreams of being lost in what seemed to be a maze of pits, reminded them of stories about wonders of wells and pits in the Book of Marvels.

More than a year ago I started having those dreams again, so I read the book. There were similarities with a few of the stories but nothing more. One of the stories made an impression on me more than the others. After being done with the vain project of finding my dreams in a book from 12th century, I started obsessing about every detail of that certain story. Borrowing from distressing artifacts of my own subconscious and mixing them with all the details described or all the things left out of that particular one story, a musical project was starting to take shape in my mind.

Working outside the systems suggested by 12 tone equal temperament, has been a passion of mine from the start of my musical life. I released one track on my first EP doing that, a failed experiment. After that I kept on studying the subject. Whenever I got the chance, I tested out an idea borrowing from other systems of tuning and their suggested compositional techniques.

Imagining a musical equivalent to those distressing dreams and the scenes from the book was a very good opportunity to test out the oddest juxtapositions of the said systems, a formidable but suitable task. The sound, in my mind had to be murky, hazy, highly textured, crackling, resonant yet dingy and distant. It eventually took the shape of an album. The techniques I learned and used during the making of these pieces will remain in use in my musical activities for a long time. This album with all its shortcomings is about distressing dreams/realities of being lost in the darkness of a pit and the sounds/creatures that lead you to it, based on my own dreams and a few lines from an old book.

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released June 11, 2021

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" Siavash Amini has consistently provided room for reflection through creation of space – set between both buoyant and melancholy planes of noise in amicable juxtaposition. "

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