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Numb Years

by Aria Rostami

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Brooklyn-based Persian producer Aria Rostami is set to drop an esoteric eleven-track album on his Intimate Inanimate label later this year. A musician since 1997, a producer since 2004 – recent years have seen Aria Rostami release an EP and album on Spring Theory, long players on Crash Symbols and Audiobulb, not to mention collaborating with Daniel Blomquist for projects on Jacktone and Glacial Movements Records. Many of these are concept records that focus on topics such as new technology’s influence on communication between civilians of the United State and Iran, how culture is exchanged, preserved and/or changed within the diaspora and how things are lost in translation for the children of immigrants, as well as the decay of form and the illusion of control. ‘Numb Years’ is his next album and will be released with a poem and essay. In these Rostami talks about his parent’s immigrant experience, being part of the second generation, the events in the United States since the election and what he’s learned from the untold stories about his aunt that was murdered before his father was born. Below is an excerpt from that essay:
“On July 1st, 2017 I moved to Brooklyn, New York from San Francisco, California. I left a good paying job and a home city I grew to love over 11 years. I moved to New York City for an opportunity to make art and experience life that was not available in San Francisco. I got an entry level job that paid minimum wage and mostly lived off of savings. I was living like I was 20 all over again... two small meals a day to save money, working for 9 hours a day at a mind-numbing job, coming home and working on music until 5am... Really, music was the only balancing point of the whole experience. So I started making music that brought in the noise of New York... The shrieking and hissing of transit, it’s unavoidable, I hear it everywhere... I made an album in a month. “Numb Years” captures everything I felt in that concentrated period of time.” Composed of densely layered textures and scintillating sounds, the album itself is an eclectic selection of leftfield cuts that span pearlescent downtempo through to frenetic percussive jams. With ‘Numb Years’, Aria Rostami continues to raise the bar and assert himself as one of electronic music’s most fascinating and
talented rising artists.

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released December 20, 2017

All songs written and recorded by Aria Rostami
Additional production assistance by Daniel Blomquist
Mastered by Warren Hildebrand
Album photo by Brian Vu
Album design by Brian Vu and Aria Rostami

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Aria Rostami currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Rostami started releasing music in 2011 and has releases on labels such as Spring Theory, Glacial Movements, Dark Entries, Crash Symbols, Zoom Lens, Audiobulb and Jacktone Records. Aria Rostami occasionally performs and releases work with Daniel Blomquist. ... more

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