For collaboration, booking and work proposal please contact:
info@rojinsharafi.com
Download Press Kit here
Credits
Design by Aida Ebrahimi
Photos by Hessam Samavatian and Igor Ripak and Kristof Thomas
© Rojin Sharafi 2019
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| Mica Music Austria: (In German) „ICH GLAUBE AN DIE KOMBINATION VON INTUITION, HANDWERK UND ERFAHRUNG.” |
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| The Quietus ‘Even with experimental sounds more rampant than ever in the modern musical diet, the truly unexpected seems harder to find…’ The artist has discussed her various approaches to time and narrative, citing convoluted storylines, flashback/flashforward, plus fluid, frozen, and solid time as key compositional tools in her arsenal. All of this isn’t to say that drama and crescendo don’t play their role – check out the battling peaks and troughs of ‘Sayonara’ or the Autechre-esque rush of beats on ‘The Last Urn Broke’ – but Sharafi’s skirting a place where such concepts have little role to play. This is one of the most ecstatic and fiercely original hours of music you’ll come across in 2019. |
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| Groove Mag Urns Waiting To Be Fed ist ein Spiegelkabinett aus bis zur Unkenntlichkeit verfremdeten Klängen aus Sharafis Heimat Teheran und schmatzenden Klangmaschinen mit einem Hang zum organisierten Chaos. |
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| The Quietus The music of Rojin Sharafi is uniquely mangled by its own logic. The young musician (born in Tehran, currently based in Vienna) plays by no known rules and sculpts by no known methods.The topography of the music on Urns Waiting To Be Fed comes from another world. It doesn’t simply loop; it certainly doesn’t sound as if it is built from verses, choruses, or even just ‘sections’; it doesn’t even feel like a guided improvisation.This is one of the most ecstatic and fiercely original hours of music you’ll come across in 2019. |
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| DJ Mag Whatever’s going on behind the scenes, ‘A Barrel Of Monkeys’ is a typically abstract electronic piece, dealing in defamiliarised bouncy noises to create a rich musical logic all Sharafi’s own. |
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| The Wire – Adventures in Sound and Music Issue 426 / August 2019 In Location, Hyperreality reviewTehran-via-Vienna composer Rojin Sharafi is refreshingly daft, flashing a head-tech as she refracts her zither in various ways, moving back and forth between noise and rhythm while a dancer jerks around like a broken fembot. |
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| The Guardian Among this wave’s most exciting new figures is Rojin Sharafi. The 23-year-old’s challenging interdisciplinary compositions experiment with narrative and structure, as in her Girih contribution, Pulp. “I’m very interested in work that engages different senses, interacts with the audience, changes strategies, and is not very predictable,” |
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| FACT Magazine Debut Album announceUrns Waiting To Be Fed is the new album from Rojin Sharafi, a sound artist and composer based in Vienna. Sote describes the record as “an abstract music that narrates”, which blends the microtonal sounds of traditional Iranian instruments with synthesis and electro-acoustic elements. |
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| Exberliner Finally, Rojin Sharafi (Dec 8, 22:35), is perhaps the most exciting name on the bill. The young composer is known for her original electro-acoustic productions, which touch on noise, folk, ambient, metal and contemporary music and is one of the rising stars of experimental music worldwide. |
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| The Attic Rojin Sharafi – Urns Waiting To Be Fed (Zabte Sote) ”Rojin Sharafi – Urns Waiting To Be Fed, an abstract music that narrates. Makes you form your own image from the event, story and built up history. Elements turn into characters, characters into myths, myths live together, grow, react and go their paths. The paths that surprise you. The beauty of uncertainty and the beauty of parallel lives. Couldn’t guess where they are going to lead you; in each track and in the whole album. You follow and they chase you.” Picked by Ata ‘Sote’ Ebtekar |
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| RA: Resident Advisor Features SET x CTM Festival ReviewFirst was Rojin Sharafi, who mixed performance art with electronic production, making abstract sounds with a red metronome, a reel of duct tape and a laptop, like a survivor of the apocalypse scavenging for leftover scraps of sound. |
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| RA 680. Sote Podcast |
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| Ö1 Zeitton 14 06 2019 (In German) |
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For collaboration, booking and work proposal please contact:
info@rojinsharafi.com
Download Press Kit here
Credits
Design by Aida Ebrahimi
Photos by Hessam Samavatian and Igor Ripak and Kristof Thomas
© Rojin Sharafi 2019
| INTERVIEW |
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| Mica Music Austria: (In German) „ICH GLAUBE AN DIE KOMBINATION VON INTUITION, HANDWERK UND ERFAHRUNG.” |
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| REVIEW | |
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| The Quietus ‘Even with experimental sounds more rampant than ever in the modern musical diet, the truly unexpected seems harder to find…’ The artist has discussed her various approaches to time and narrative, citing convoluted storylines, flashback/flashforward, plus fluid, frozen, and solid time as key compositional tools in her arsenal. All of this isn’t to say that drama and crescendo don’t play their role – check out the battling peaks and troughs of ‘Sayonara’ or the Autechre-esque rush of beats on ‘The Last Urn Broke’ – but Sharafi’s skirting a place where such concepts have little role to play. This is one of the most ecstatic and fiercely original hours of music you’ll come across in 2019. |
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| Groove Mag Urns Waiting To Be Fed ist ein Spiegelkabinett aus bis zur Unkenntlichkeit verfremdeten Klängen aus Sharafis Heimat Teheran und schmatzenden Klangmaschinen mit einem Hang zum organisierten Chaos. |
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| The Quietus The music of Rojin Sharafi is uniquely mangled by its own logic. The young musician (born in Tehran, currently based in Vienna) plays by no known rules and sculpts by no known methods.The topography of the music on Urns Waiting To Be Fed comes from another world. It doesn’t simply loop; it certainly doesn’t sound as if it is built from verses, choruses, or even just ‘sections’; it doesn’t even feel like a guided improvisation.This is one of the most ecstatic and fiercely original hours of music you’ll come across in 2019. |
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The Wire – Adventures in Sound and Music Tehran-via-Vienna composer Rojin Sharafi is refreshingly daft, flashing a head-tech as she refracts her zither in various ways, moving back and forth between noise and rhythm while a dancer jerks around like a broken fembot. |
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The Guardian Among this wave’s most exciting new figures is Rojin Sharafi. The 23-year-old’s challenging interdisciplinary compositions experiment with narrative and structure, as in her Girih contribution, Pulp. “I’m very interested in work that engages different senses, interacts with the audience, changes strategies, and is not very predictable,” |
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FACT Magazine Urns Waiting To Be Fed is the new album from Rojin Sharafi, a sound artist and composer based in Vienna. Sote describes the record as “an abstract music that narrates”, which blends the microtonal sounds of traditional Iranian instruments with synthesis and electro-acoustic elements. |
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| Exberliner Finally, Rojin Sharafi (Dec 8, 22:35), is perhaps the most exciting name on the bill. The young composer is known for her original electro-acoustic productions, which touch on noise, folk, ambient, metal and contemporary music and is one of the rising stars of experimental music worldwide. |
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| The Attic Rojin Sharafi – Urns Waiting To Be Fed (Zabte Sote) ”Rojin Sharafi – Urns Waiting To Be Fed, an abstract music that narrates. Makes you form your own image from the event, story and built up history. Elements turn into characters, characters into myths, myths live together, grow, react and go their paths. The paths that surprise you. The beauty of uncertainty and the beauty of parallel lives. Couldn’t guess where they are going to lead you; in each track and in the whole album. You follow and they chase you.” Picked by Ata ‘Sote’ Ebtekar |
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RA: Resident Advisor First was Rojin Sharafi, who mixed performance art with electronic production, making abstract sounds with a red metronome, a reel of duct tape and a laptop, like a survivor of the apocalypse scavenging for leftover scraps of sound. |
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