Hermes Records: the vanguard of contemporary music in Iran
Ramin Sadighi is the founder of Hermes Records, a Tehran-based label founded in 1999 with the aim of producing and promoting the work of Iranian musicians and composers. Their artists draw on both Iranian and Western classical influences, producing work that encompasses the genres of contemporary classical, film music, ...
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Stay Close…but to what?
A project such as Stay Close must invariably engage with the notion of musical Orientalism; the processes by which a Western gaze selectively promotes and displays key aspects of Eastern musics with the effect of exoticising and caricaturing a complex map of individuals involved in the production and reception of this ...
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