Back in January 2023, on the 17th, we brought the issue of the Iran Revolution to into the realms of music and experimental sound. The Wire Magazine’s Clive Bell was there to review.
WOW Festival Podcast
Around the time of it’s inception, I had been attending these think-ins for WOW festival. My[…]
Arts Fundraiser for Woman, Life, Freedom Tonight
London’s Iranian Avant Garde musician and sound arts community and their friends put on a fundraiser at Iklectik. Electronica, piano, cello, soprano, Welsh-Iranian folk, singer-song-writer and visuals. Plus an art exhibition of the “Say Their Names Art Project”, portraits of the fallen in Iran, by artists of other backgrounds.
A Sea of Salted Wounds – A Love for Panahi
But film makers all over the world always make films about the ills of their society. Perhaps the ministry ought to sit down to 24 hours of modern Western art-house for some perspective? It’s just a sign of our times.
“I want a sound like the earth cracking open.” 15 Questions Interview.
On the eve of a new vinyl release on Morphine Records, Berlin on Lebanese improvisor Mazen[…]
The Sign to Return is in the Earth’s Spin
A new double-vinyl release on Berlin’s Morphine Records is a collaboration between avant-garde Lebanese trumpeter Mazen[…]
Women, Life, Freedom Radio Special
I asked women from Iran to think about what we overseas should know, and what we might do, and there are surprising, important results. I also got to question a seasoned and renowned activist Steve Marsling.
Iran – Your / Our /Their Story
A film on the personal as political and the personal as transferable. Stories of migration, bravery, distance and loss.
Turntables Inside Drawers – Show Flat
I am using a silver sari-bell which was gifted to me while I was living in India, a kind of dog tag to me now, that meant the wearer was easily traced around the large rooms and levels of Indian homes
Bodyless Sound Art Show – October, Shoreditch
Feeling honoured to be in the same show as the great Beatriz Ferreyra, who I met[…]