{"id":695,"date":"2021-01-08T13:02:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T13:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siavashamini.com\/wps1917\/?page_id=695"},"modified":"2021-01-11T09:40:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T09:40:53","slug":"press","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/siavashamini.com\/?page_id=695","title":{"rendered":"Press"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The<\/b><\/a><\/span> Quietus<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Features Siavash Amini’s Baker’s Dozen<\/b><\/div>\n
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“Siavash Amini was once lazily dubbed ‘the Iranian Brian Eno’, but the ambiguity and textural low-end in his music means his work might better be compared to Mika Vainio. Amini’s new album,\u00a0A Mimesis Of Nothingness, shares a heaviness with Vainio, as uncomfortable electronic music with compositional complexities.”<\/i><\/div>\n
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Pitchfork<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Interview with Philip Sherburne<\/b><\/div>\n
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The Vinyl Factory<\/a><\/span>‘s 10 Albums of August<\/b><\/div>\n
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“Amini\u2019s glassy, modern classical compositions provide suspenseful and emotive soundscapes for Shafiee\u2019s haunting images of Tehran. The<\/i> record is accompanied by a booklet exploring a selection of Shafiee\u2019s work, with the overall project highlighting the pairs interest in exploring sensual experience and metaphysical places”<\/i><\/div>\n
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The Wire Issue 441<\/a>\u00a0<\/span> A Mimesis of Nothing Review (excerpt)<\/b><\/p>\n

“this music is insular, hermetic and abstract.\u00a0Amini often gets tagged as ambient<\/i> and\/or drone, which even allowing for those terms\u2019 dilution of meaning through their use as shorthand is off the mark here. \u201cMoonless Garden\u201d is a calming cinematic take on isolationism with some kind of avian squawk coming and going \u2014more animals of uncertain taxonomy can be heard on \u201cObservance (Shadow)\u201d \u2014 but on the whole this is more varied and more forbidding.”<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“in recent years Amini\u2019s music has been drawn like a magnet to the exploration of the metaphysical, with the varying dimensions of space, acoustic projection, and minimal sound design all being thoroughly investigated and pursued. Amini focusses on the experience of place, from the viewpoint of an individual as well as on a collective scale, and how the subconscious mind influences and interprets those experiences and physical sensations.”<\/i><\/div>\n
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Bandcamp Best Experimental Music of 2019\u00a0<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

“as Amini channelled his experience into deep, cavernous sounds that drift between documentary-like realism and abstract expressionism, echoing the hypnagogic state he endured. As a result,\u00a0Serus\u00a0is a heavy listen, but it also exudes the calm and reassurance that comes from turning distress into art.”\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Bandcamp Artist Feature<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

“His creative technique has remained almost unchanged over the past decade or so. Amini still uses a very simple recording setup\u2014essentially just a guitar\u2014alongside a very limited amount of software. What does keeps changing are his influences, which affect his work deeply. \u201cTo be able to create, you need to have a lot of inputs. For me, that plays a big role. I try to immerse myself in things I find interesting,\u201d shares Amini. The inspirations range from literature\u2014whether it be poetry, fiction, or\u00a0 philosophy\u2014to cinema or other music, both contemporary and classical.”
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Pitchfork Review<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

“Amini\u2019s work often flits between chamber instrumentation, sumptuous dark ambient, and head-splitting noise, and he finds the perfect foil in 9T Antiope, who pair electronic glitches and drones with almost shockingly beautiful singing. Together, they conjure a terrifying expanse of blackened buzz over which 9T Antiope vocalist Sara Bigdeli Shamloo slides between classical technique, bluesy affect, and, on the dreamlike \u201cBlack as in Burst,\u201d a bone-chilling whisper.”<\/i><\/p>\n

The Wire Issue 427 Serus Review<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

“While Amini\u2019s Serus is a significantly\u00a0darker, denser and more complex\u00a0exploration of the texture and temporal\u00a0nature of sound production, it still requires\u00a0a backstory to be fully understood in\u00a0relation to the preceding releases. 2017’s\u00a0Tar concentrated on the collective and\u00a0the individual unconscious, and the\u00a0tension between the twa, in the way it (re)produced emotions, sounds and images.\u00a0Foras the following year intensified this\u00a0exploration, particularly in relation to the\u00a0external influence governing our internal\u00a0responses. Serus meanwhile examines its\u00a0extreme effects on the composer, as the\u00a0monstrous drone of opener \u201cA Recollection\u00a0Of The Disappeared\u201d engulfs its listener\u00a0in the raw affect of someone who’d\u00a0experienced a nervous breakdown. This in\u00a0between state of wakefulness and sleep\u00a0emerges in orchestral motifs that rise\u00a0in and out of textured noise on \u201cAll That\u00a0Remained Pt 1\u201d and \u201cAll That Remained Pt\u00a02\u201d, while \u201cSemblance\u201d buoys suspended in\u00a0a cloud of its own grumbling inertia.”<\/i><\/p>\n

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“Amini works in prickly textures, mimicking the crackle of synaptic activity as the brain prepares for sleep. The soundscape eventually deadens around its halfway point, clearing clutter as violin played by Nima Aghiani groans like it\u2019s part of a Haxan Cloak track, then sprawls out, then finds footing, then sprawls out again in cinematic fashion. These dreams are movies, to paraphrase a Built to Spill lyric, and the plot is littered with twists.”<\/em>
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For the sake for brevity only a small selection of press quotes from 2019 and onwards has been included. The music released before that time has been reviewed in The Guardian, Fact, A Closer Listen, DiS, The Quietus and Headphone Commute to name a few, please contact me for a complete press quotations list if you need one.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2020 2019 Bandcamp Best Experimental Music of 2019\u00a0 “as Amini channelled his experience into deep, cavernous sounds that drift between documentary-like realism and abstract expressionism, echoing the hypnagogic state he endured. As a result,\u00a0Serus\u00a0is a heavy listen, but it also exudes the calm and reassurance that comes from turning distress into art.”\u00a0 \u00a0 Bandcamp Artist… Read More »Press<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"full-width","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"on","neve_meta_content_width":100,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"on","_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siavashamini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siavashamini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siavashamini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siavashamini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siavashamini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/siavashamini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/siavashamini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/695\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siavashamini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}