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Persis

by IRAN

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Sohan (Qom remixed by Ongon) 07:24
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Magnitogorsk ( Oh My Blast Metallurg Remix by vonnneumann) 06:19
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rekwm ( Magnitogorsk remixed by Elio Martusciello) 07:38
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Xenopolis rmx (Simone Lalli) 05:05
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Regium Lepidi Revisere (Luigi Ceccarelli) 07:49
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Acanthus ( Cuma remixed by Cristian Maddalena) 10:06
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Aral ( Remixed by Claudio Rocchetti) 06:59
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Bam, la frana (Bam remixed by Roberto Fega) 05:12
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I write as if this

was a work of translation

Valerio Magrelli

To play is to translate what cannot be written, to say the unspeakable. Persis is the new album by Iran: starting from the seven tracks of Aemilia, published by Aagoo Records in 2020, eight musicians among the most representative of the Italian electronic / avant scene (with the honor of having on board, among others, prestigious and historical names such as Luigi Ceccarelli and Elio Martusciello, composers and teachers of electronic music in the conservatory) have imagined new journeys, simply going elsewhere (each piece in Aemila has the name of a city), often very far from where the original versions of the pieces lead . It is therefore improper to speak of a remix album in the classical sense; we think rather of other geographies, other visions, other delusions. Ongon explores Qom using his guembri, vonneumann have a glimpse about Magnitogorsk on the path of the ambient glitch, while Elio Martusciello digs through the debris of the same radioactive city and writes a rekwēəm for a dying planet. Simone Lalli finds other avenues for the rhythmic obsession of Xenopolis, Luigi Ceccarelli opens the bowels of Regium Lepidi like an electroacoustic pathologist, Cristian Maddalena questions the Sibyl of Cuma. Claudio Rocchetti further dries up what remains of the Aral Sea and celebrates entropy, Roberto Fega closes in glory by singing a hymn to the failure of history while observing the earthquake, the landslide of Bam. Always remembering that, as Ayatollah Khomeini said, listening to music is allowed as long as it is not for personal enjoyment.


Print by Aagoo Records

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released November 19, 2021

Ongon, vonnneumann, Elio Martusciello, Simone Lalli, Luigi Ceccarelli, Cristian Maddalena, Claudio Rocchetti, Roberto Fega

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IRAN Reggio Emilia, Italy

Born in 2015 as an improvisational duo with Nazim Comunale on analog keyboards and Andrea Silvestri on guitar, after 2 years of free-form extemporization and some live chaos, Iran started working with drummer Rodolfo Villani on 7 structured tracks, recorded 2 years later with Francesco Massaro on clarinet and Alessandro Cartolari on baritone sax as guests. Today Roberto Rettura play the drum ... more

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