Salim Ghazi Saeedi releases new album
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Topic: Salim Ghazi Saeedi releases new album
Posted By: Windhawk
Subject: Salim Ghazi Saeedi releases new album
Date Posted: October 18 2012 at 13:10
CONTACT:
Salim Ghazi Saeedi
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Iran - Tehran
Release
date: 20 Oct 2012
namoWoman
:: In between worlds of sexualities, dualities and
tonalities
Tehran, Iran - By recreating themselves, artists
transcend their time and place and now Salim Ghazi Saeedi
has endeavored to overlook the life in his hometown,
Tehran, by composing his 6th album, namoWoman. An
instrumental avant-prog and prog metal album, namoWoman
hires microtonal Persian music influences while
introducing a newly constructed language (conlang) named
"l3abEl" (pronounced Babel) in which the album's booklet
is written.
Salim is the man of extremities while always seeks
reconciliation and harmonization among the most remotely
contradictory elements. So developing as a rock/metal
artist in a rock alien environment in his hometown or
expressing himself by personalized mediums like a conlang
of his own, all comes natural to his lifestyle. In his
2012 album, Salim has hired an expressionist microtonal
approach toward art rock/metal that he describes himself
as "empty spaces filled with occasional wild electric
guitars and expressive melodies while having oriental
dance elements undercover".
About the concepts behind namoWoman composition, Salim
says "I have always found the assumption of impossibility,
an important trick against my mind - a human mind that
usually prefers patterned and inductional methods of
cognition." Salim adds: "As an artist, creating and
experimenting yet unexplored mental realms has always
fascinated me and in order to trick my mind into pushing
toward new possibilities, I like experimenting around
fundamental concepts like human sexuality. Ideas like
considering human sexuality beyond its dualistic nature
let me to enter a new mindset and fascinations about
worlds of non-Carbon based life, gradually fed my
creativity for namoWoman. Maybe I can say this mindset
forced my mind to respond on vital levels and challenged
its own existence..."
The album cover features Carvaggio's painting of Medusa,
which according to Sigmund Freud is "the supreme talisman
who provides the image of castration". Salim says:
"namoWoman cover design is a symbolic representation as if
the way of transforming dualistic conceptuality passes
through castrating one's sexual identity and
reconstructing it anew. All songs in this album appear as
perspectives of such creative realms".
Here, Persian music quarter tones are coming in between
western music intervals - as Salim has outlined in a music
theory article on his website, "Persian Modes: Reading
Between the Lines of Western Music". While quarter tones
harmonize namoWoman album's musical language, the l3abEl
conlang accompanying its booklet tries to establish the
harmony in realm of words.
namoWoman
is available in digital and CD format at http://www.salimworld.com" rel="nofollow - www.salimworld.com
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