{"title":"Sote","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSote is an Iranian electronic music composer who was born in Germany and is currently based in Tehran. He has a unique sound that blends traditional Persian music with experimental electronic elements, creating a truly innovative and captivating musical experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter studying and teaching Sound Arts in Northern California, USA, Sote has gained a deep understanding of the technical aspects of music production. This knowledge allows him to push boundaries and explore new sonic territories, resulting in compositions that are both thought-provoking and mesmerizing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith his distinct style, Sote has garnered comparisons to other groundbreaking artists such as Rian Treanor, Grischa Lichtenberger, Klein, Mark Fell, Saint Abdullah, Heith, David Toop, Slikback, Maral, Hiro Kone, Demdike Stare,and many more. His music stands out for its intricate layers of sound and its ability to transport listeners to another realm.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"parallel-persia-remixes","title":"Parallel Persia Remixes","description":"\u003cp\u003eCutting edge innovators Rashad Becker and Mark Fell re-work material from Sote's extraordinary 'Parallel Persia' album alongside a killer non-album track by Ata Ebtekar aka Sote himself. Highly recommended if yr into the complex tunings and arrhythmic geometry of Dariush Dolat-Shahi, Autechre, Xenakis... Last year's 'Paralell Persia' album took the trajectory of his preceding 'Hardcore Sounds From Tehran' (2016) and 'Sacred Horror In Design' (2017) to thrilling new heights for Diagonal. Turning traditional instrumental music inside-out with computers and modular synths, he arrived at a thrilling mix of sound that stood out as one of the year's most original and striking releases. Wrapped around the incendiary core of 'Artificial Neutrality' which features Pouya Damadi's Tar and Arash Bolouri's Santour sculpted into fiery folk futurism by Sote, the remixes by celebrated mastering engineer and improvising composer Rashad Becker and minimalist rhythmatist Mark Fell exert incredible new spins on Sote's originals that remain faithful to the material in their inimitable styles. Rashad Becker's Dramatic Reenactment of 'Pseudo Scholastic' combs and curdles the original into 7 segmented minutes of squirming tones and melted rhythms that, through twists and turns, come to recall Korean classical court music and Florian Hecker as much as they recall the original. Mark Fell, meanwhile, impresses with his quadruply extended 20 minute Parallel Yorkshire mutation of 'Modality Transporter', where he unravels its syncopated flex in endless permutations of laser-guided pulse drops, puckered strings and choral stabs that come to sound like Autechre letting off fireworks at a Dariush Dolat-Shahi show\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diagonal","offers":[{"title":"12\"","offer_id":50431879381323,"sku":"2045986","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_56e2e8f6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726860546"},{"product_id":"sound-system-persepolis","title":"Sound System Persepolis","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiagonal welcome the return of Iranian composer and sound artist, Ata Ebtekar (SOTE), for his first outing for the label since 2019's \"Parallel Persia\" and \"Artificial Neutrality\". 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Some pieces function as challengers of musical structural habits, provoking the short attention span culture, others present a problem-solution scenario, collectively via a neoteric noise aesthetic and detailed melodic weaving. Ultimately, the objective was to engineer an assortment of works full of sound, euphonic and vivid in nature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe making of this album was intentionally a very personal process, going into self therapy territory at times interpreting the composer's contemplating mind dealing with tolerance, destruction, compassion, misery, grace and tyranny in an auditory manner. 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