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SOTE [Ata EBTEKAR]

"Sacred Horror in Design"

(LP. Sub Rosa. 2018 / rec. 2017) [IR]

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Sote (Ata Ebtekar)

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https://soundcloud.com/media-roots/media-roots-radio-interview-w-ata-ebtekar

http://www.recordlabelrecords.org/sote.html

Ata Ebtekar aka Sote is an electronic composer, sound artist and recording engineer who was born on September 2nd, 1972. His goal is to create unique and timeless pieces of music that are not available anywhere except in his mind. Sote is interested in keeping the tuning of Persian classical scales (Radif) and melodies from old Persian folk songs within a new electronic framework. Since he has a firm conviction that rules and formulas have to be deconstructed and rethought, he alters some of these modal systems from their original tonality and rhythm (tradition). He has released 2 records on RLR, one a dancefloor limited edition vinyl titled 'wakeup' (the followup to his Warp records release 'electric deaf') and Dastgaah, a full length cd illustrating his beatless persian electronic music techniques.

http://recordlabelrecords.org/sote-12-(limited-edition.html

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Juvtzx5K8kA

http://recordlabelrecords.org/sote-dastgaah.html

A hypermodern version of traditional Persian music. Sote, who already released a single through Warp and a 12in.on Dielectric, now turns the music tradition completely inside-out. Ata Ebtekar, as the artist is called, returned to his home-country Iran last year to create a laptop version in which ethnic acoustic elements have been completely altered and put into new ambient propositions, giving the music a completely different framework. Reworked voices, glitchy high-pitched shards of sounds, alienated peeps and twisted snare-instruments have been glued together in such a way, that the originin can hardly be detected. A 34-minute long alienated drug experiment in the middle of a modern foreign desert country."

http://www.rbmaradio.com/shows/main-stage/episodes/sote-live-at-ctm-festival-2015

For Ata Ebtekar aka Sote crafting otherworldly sensations is at the core of all musical creation. Born in Hamburg, based in Tehran, the world-travelling sound artist has set the bar high for himself when he appeared on the experimental scene with his ‘92 debut Electric Deaf on Warp. Subsequently, Sote has explored the interface of classical Persian instrumentation and electronics, working with Alireza Mashayekhi’s Iranian Orchestra for New Music as well as curating a retrospective of Persian electronic music. Throughout the years, he has found a unique musical language that allows his pieces to defy the laws of conventional composition and conjure up sonic textures that reference nothing but their creator’s imagination. Using the full spectrum of electro-acoustic techniques, microtonal systems and polyrhythmic motifs, Sote offers alternatives in which the perceivable world that informs his modular synthesis gets deconstructed, re-contextualized and eventually transcended.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ

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iVV Volume IV. Inspired by ephemeral archives, public pools in the desert, public pools in the Rhineland, forests in the Rhineland, humidity, gravity, alacrity, velocity, indemnity, steam, bread, fireworks, drought, and sleep. “Pay For Rain" .in viscera veritas vol IV. Ata Ebtekar & The Iranian Orchestra For New Music - Pearly Gates [Isounderscore, 2009] aus - Clocks (Sons Of Magdalene Dub) [Preco, 2008] Rainer Veil - Negative Space [Modern Love, 2014] Jack Dice - Low Glow [Modern Love, 2014] MJ Cole - 39 Step [Prolific Recordings, 2013] Foetus - Pareidolia (Fennesz Remix) [Ectopic Ents., 2007] Melt Banana - Wrest The Fist (Just For Reflection) [kool.POP, 1997] Grinderman - When My Baby Comes (Cat's Eyes With Luke Tristram) [Mute, 2012] Chris Watson - River Mara At Night [Touch, 1996] Orcas - Petrichor [Morr Music, 2014] Frank Bretschneider - Kippschwingungen Part 1 [Line, 2012] Perera Elsewhere - Drunk Man (Prefuse 73 A.A. Meditation Mix) [FoF Music, 2014] Jack Dice - Radium Dial [Modern Love, 2014] Squarepusher - Ruin [Warp Records, 1998] Mark Van Hoen - Don’t Look Back [Editions Mego, 2012] Marc Leclair - 236e Jour [Mutek_Rec, 2005] Francis Harris - Minutes Of Sleep [Scissor and Thread, 2014] HTRK - Poison (Mika Vainio Remix) [Ghostly International, 2013] Folke Rabe - To The Barbender [Fylkingen Records, 1983] aus - Opaque (Clee Rader Mix by Epic45) [Preco, 2008] Chelsea Wolfe - Armour Fell Asleep [Jeune Été Records, 2010] get weird. turn left. -------------------------- (Silent auction. Secret location.) Your past is being auctioned at a secret location In silence The home you once knew has joined the ranks of the ephemeral archives Now we pay for rain All you ever wanted was to be a charming drifter on the run from his past (John Hughes lies) Now you’d like nothing more than a buttered bun A fizzy drink And to be sat soundly in the exponentially monochromatic memory of your youth And to know as little as possible of the future Where we pay for rain Daydreamer to daydrinker (I’ve got my hand half covering my mug) (Vague warmth licking at my palm) If you’re lucky The structures of your youth Become a theme park for nouveau riche/perma-amnesiacs At least they conserve them The original feeling lost But the structures stand Unlucky? They get stoked by supplicants Packed like sardines in a slumlord’s absent reverence of the place So Strangle the czar and seek comfort in buttered bread (Choose your own sequence of events for success) So Describe the smell of chlorine vapor hanging heavy in a balmy public pool shower sliced diagonally by dust static in the sun’s rays It IS Too much to hold in one hand

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Ata Ebtekar & Mazdak Khamda - Word of Farewell

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"Ata Ebtekar aka Sote (b.1972) is an electronic composer, sound artist and recording engineer who is interested in recasting the tuning of Persian classical scales (radif) and melodies from old Persian folk songs within a new electronic framework. Since he has a firm conviction that rules and formulas have to be deconstructed and rethought, he alters some of these modal systems from their original tonality and rhythm. He has released several CDs and vinyls on Dielectric/RLR, Spundae and Warp. Sub Rosa offers you a Persian history lesson that finally exposes this region's rich and significant contribution to the realm of electronic music."

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