Siavash Amini - A Trail of Laughters (2021) [Official Digital Download]

Electro-acoustic sound sculptor Siavash Amini's latest full-length is inspired by a series of repeating nightmares and Muhammad ibn Mahmoud Hamadâni’s ‘Book of marvels’. It's safe to say it's a transportive experience in textural microtonality: suffocating at times and distressing at others, but with occasional cracks of sunlight.

Amini has been vocal about his desire to work outside of the 12 tone equal temperament, so for these recordings he was passionate about using other systems of tuning to represent his dreams. The result is four long passages of sound that smudge through the consciousness, blurring instruments into synthetic tones and suggesting distance, history and the wild labyrinth of the mind.

'The Oncome' submerges microtonal passages of sound in crashing waves of noise. This is aesthetically Persian music, but feels completely out of time - it could be rooted in the past or being beamed from the far future. 'Crocuta Crocuta' is more ominous, with thick low end that eventually caves into ghostly wails and eerie vapors.

Each track expands Amini's universe, digging deeper into his subconscious and dragging out symphonic fragments or passages of industrial grit. It's a terrifying voyage into a complex electro-acoustic web of literature, antiquity and sonic futurism; ambient, it ain't.

Tracklist:
1. The Oncome (12:03)
2. Crocuta crocuta (07:28)
3. Daniâl My son, Where did you vanish? (07:24)
4. Kaftâr-Khal (11:44)


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