I May Never See You Again, by Saba Alizadeh

I May Never See You Again

by Saba Alizadeh

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1.	I May Never See You Again 03:41	buy track
2.	Phasing Shadows (with Andreas Spechtl) 06:33	buy track
3.	Silences Inbetween 03:34	buy track
4.	Norooz 99 02:53	buy track
5.	Ablution 06:12	buy track
6.	Only Hope Breaks The Dark Waves 02:56	buy track
7.	Touch (with Andreas Spechtl) 08:59	buy track
8.	Hybrid (with Rojin Sharafi) 06:00	buy track
9.	Azin 02:27	buy track

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Iranian composer and Kamancheh virtuoso, Saba Alizadeh releases his new album "I May Never See You Again"on the newly founded Hamburg label 30M Records.

Born in Tehran in 1983 to world-renowned tar and setar virtuoso and composer Hossein Alizadeh, Saba Alizadeh studied the Iranian Kamancheh – an ancient Persian violin – becoming one of the foremost players of the instrument of this day. Alizadeh later studied experimental sound art with Mark Trayle at the California Institute of the Arts and inspired by the conceptual approaches taught there, started composing music that deconstructs and abstracts Iranian traditions and scales into a new musical language and style.

Influenced by Iranian harmonics, musique concrète and sophisticated, forward-looking beat science, Saba Alizadeh's "I May Never See You Again" represent an incredibly exciting act of mutual inspiration - when Iranian scales and Western electroacoustic understanding powerfully unite.

The nine predominantly instrumental tracks on the album fuse tradition and innovation inspiring meditations on the subject of memory. On the one hand, the credibility and resilience of one's own memory is musically dissected, whilst on the other hand, Saba Alizadeh proceeds conceptually, deploying erstwhile dictators’ speeches in his music as a means to question the course of history.

I May Never See You Again also features handpicked collaborations with musician Andreas Spechtl and electroacoustic sound artist Rojin Sharafi. Spechtl, singer of the band Ja, Panik, found fame in the German-speaking world primarily thanks to his song lyrics, in which he deconstructs words in a similarly abstract way as Saba Alizadeh does the music.
Spechtl joins Alizadeh on two tracks for the album, while Vienna-based Iranian Sharafi joins on one.

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released July 8, 2021

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30M Records was founded in 2020 in Hamburg, Germany. It is the international full service label for a new generation of artists in Iran. 30M Records releases music from a vibrant scene of a country many yet only know from the news.

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