OMID WALIZADEH - Modern Persian Speech Sounds

OMID WALIZADEH - Modern Persian Speech Sounds (B ta'arof US)

The overall effect is haunting and richly textured, with strings and woodwind instruments layered over beats that thump and skitter, wobbly dubstep basslines and rhythmically repeated snippets of Farsi speech. Even in the digital recording, the crackle of an old vinyl recording can be heard in some of the pauses. “Just to be able to play with all this Persian material was so exciting,” Walizadeh says. “I’ve been trying to make them mesh for so long.”via thenational