Ethereal Echoes
A guitar lick written before my daughter was born became a deeply personal remembrance of my father four years later.
Zolahr Sounds
This is the released music by Zolahr Sounds. Depending on the track, the electronic production is joined by oud, setar, mazhar, guitar or percussion. Each release page has a locally hosted preview and links to the streaming services. More sketches and unreleased pieces are on SoundCloud.
A guitar lick written before my daughter was born became a deeply personal remembrance of my father four years later.
Morteza Naderi's Persian setar meets electronic beats, bright melodies and a pulse that keeps moving forward.
Mazhar, oud and restrained electronics move together through a calm, hypnotic track.
A spontaneous guitar riff, acoustic panels scattered through the flat and the sounds of the room itself: most of the track came together in a single day.
Morteza on oud, me in the studio, and a track that leans heavily into psytrance without fitting neatly inside the genre.
My first experiments with Native Instruments India became the foundation for a trance-inspired track with Morteza on oud.