Premiere: In new kāve LP, pre-classical Persian verse meets the machine
Machine Learning Poetry, the new LP from Tehran's kāve, is not pastoral or pretty. It's 10th-12 century poetry made into...
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Moments fragile, brutal, and sublime, in three new releases from Iran’s Zabte Sote label
Zabte Sote is a wellspring of inspiration, not because of some fetishization of Iran or least of all its pain,...
When Tehran lights up Köln, pull up your experimental electronic caravan and celebrate
Here comes the twist – in a year in which so much of the adventurous end of the electronic music...
Iranian Duo Temp-Illusion has assembled a perfect sampler of bleeding-edge production
The duo of Shahin Entezami and Behrang Najafi has produced a tape/digital release of reworks that buzzes and screams with...
