Info: In a country where youth culture has been heavily restricted for so long, it’s significant when a cultural form such as this has an opportunity to reach a wider audience – aided by the abstract nature of dark ambient, drone and noise. In comparison, the dance music scene has a harder time taking root in Iran due to the illegality of men and women dancing in public together. However, the growth of the experimental electronic scene is going to be about more than a mere novelty reaction to a political paradigm shift. The darkness here is a consequence of the mood of the artists – darker after the country was put on a black list and more restrictions were applied to many things, including monetary transactions to and from Iran. As a consequence, Iranian artists have a great difficulty getting the resources to better develop their projects. Despite this, the enthusiasm and will for Iranian musicians to promote their music shines through. credits releases September 25, 2017 Edited by #UnexplainedSoundsGroup Curated by #RaffaelePezzella (Sonologyst) and #Morego_Dimmer (aka #MohamadReza_G.) Graphic design by Abby Helasdottir #Visions_Of_Darkness_In_Iranian_Contemporary_Music #VDICM #XerxesTheDark #Sonologyst #Nyctalllz #DarkAmbient #Drone #Noise #Experimental #Industrial #AmbientDrone #RitualAmbient #Alphaxone #ALiPhi #Limen #XSIX #SSMP #Narcissa_Kasraï #IDFT #Soheil_Soheili #Hossein_RangChi #PooYar #Rhonchus #DSM #Nojan #Reza_Solatipour #Crows_in_the_Rain #Downtown_of_HongKong #Mehdi_Behbudi #Vahide_Sistaani Bandcamp: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/visions-of-darkness-in-iranian-contemporary-music-csr242cd Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/xerxes-the-dark-longing-to?in=coldspring/sets/visions-of-darkness-iran Store: http://store.coldspring.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=6609
