- Post-rock
- Art rock
- Experimental rock
- Avant-rock
- Epic
- Live
Comment: this bunch of 11 compositions
comes neither from The United States of America, Great Britain,
Canada nor any other outstanding post-rock countries but instead of
it an Iranian quintet is behind this masterpiece. Fortunately the
music (and recent double album embracing a couple of recuperative
live performances as well) is not succumbed to the sanctions (much
thanks to Italian imprint Hortus Conclusus). The nucleus of these
long-running tracks is based on slow picturesque developments as if
depicting a full-fledged autumn full of bright colours and contrast
between warmth and chill. And if there is the autumn around there is
also some sort of purgative sadness around. The purpose of post-rock,
I mean the main branch of it, consisting of massive guitar-induced
sound masses and flirtation with eargasmic crescendos, has rarely had
to deal with sonic alchemy on its own. It's purpose has been to
provide tour de forces, it is like achieving happiness as a process
comprising movement from one point to the next one and so on until
once one will feel nirvana and absence of suffer in his/her mind and
spirit. Yet clarified sadness and light melancholy may be important
premises in achieving ennobling happy sensations. Technically
post-rock is a multifaceted genre where one can perceive rolling and
orchestrated guitars, bold bass lines and rumbling drums to create
new ways to fasten and sometime start destroying and rebuilding them.
In some ways it is a sort of polyphonic music where instruments are
played and modified in their own way yet all the stuff ultimately
will constitute a sublime coherent whole even though all of that may
run at different speeds at a time. Additionally to happiness as
mentioned already above beauty as a phenomenon either seems to be a
compound one – one beatific sensation is magnified by another until
one can consider it to be overwhelming. It can freely be discerned in
music, probably at most. This is an enchanting pickup by including
many layers emotively and artistically.
