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Hangman

Posted On: 16th of September, 2023
Posted In: Jina Mahsa Amini, Hangman, woman life freedom, ZÖJ, zojduet, kamancheh, voice Iran, kaiber, runway, midjourney, gelareh pour, brian o dwyer, Hushang Entehaj, McKenna Motion, Parenthèses Records, Tradition, Continuum, Melbourne Recital Center, current

This is Hangman, Zöj’s first single from Fil o Fenjoon honouring #womanlifefreedom and #mahsaamini anniversary is out today.
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From Gela:

This track’s been recorded at MRC when Brian and Myles left me in the main room and said, just play something. I turned the pages on my book and found this amazing poem by Hushang Ebtehaj, and played and sang this piece for the first time. What you hear is what Myles captured in that moment. Feel free to turn on the caption and read the translation.
Please make sure you post/do something to honour this important revolution today. For freedom for #Iran, for freedom for all women in this world.
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Thank you all for your support and love.
Woman . Life . Freedom
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PR welcomes

Posted On: 6th of July, 2021
Posted In: Parentheses Records, Mark Cain, Fremantle, Western Australia, Ethnic Music, Traditional Music, Daramad, Osmosis, KULCHA Multicultural Arts of WA, wind instrument, reed, percussion, gamelan, Linsey Pollack

For the label’s fifteenth release, Parenthèses Records is proud to unveil CAMEOS, the new album from West Australian composer, educator, instrument maker and multi-reed specialist Mark Cain.

CAMEOS is a collection of 18 short and enigmatic pieces Cain has written and/or improvised in his home studio in Fremantle, Western Australia. Some pieces were created for the puppet theatre work, Turtle and the Trade Winds and Oddysea with musician colleague, Jamie David. Others were devised for the Cinematic Scores series event in which he composed the accompanying live score to the 1922 American ethnographic documentary, Nanook of the North. Others are pieces he’s recorded that have only now found a home on Cameos.

With CAMEOS Cain charts his interests in traditional music, ethnic instrumentations and improvisation and collides it with his love of wind and percussion instruments from various pockets of the world, including instruments he has made. A lifelong artistic dedication that has been at the core of his work with bands such as Nova Ensemble, Ozmosis, Daramad and his current group, Eastwinds. CAMEOS is a vital and playful record that reveals new perspectives on traditional sounds, an album that countains an atypical sonic universe, revealing new archipelagos on the music map, Cameos could, an album that could easily sit between Stephan Micus and the late John Hassell.