The other side

2018

This album is in praise of “femineity”, a pure, abstract, and essential quality on the other side of “masculinity”. Femineity, an attribute not uncanny to all of us, whether man or woman, it is an inner part of all human being.
“The Other Side” from musical point of view, is a pendulum between the Orient and the Occident, the West and East. It is a pendulum moving between the idiomatic string quartet, to the overtones and qualities associated with electronic music. Gypsy tunes, Middle Eastern lqa’at and cyclic meters, quarter tones, vocal articulations and ornamentations, and more influences which all make the work a challenge for string quartet and the performers. It includes the extreme fast and slow tempi and multi layer textures, all done well by the Iranian based young but professional female performers of Scheherzade Quartet.

Distribution

Producer: Barana Art Institute
Composer: Hooshyar Khayam
Scheherzade Quartet:
Violin:Tina Jamegarmi
Violin:Yeganeh Hosseininia
Viola: Niloofar Sohi
Cello: Negar Norad
Recording: Persian Sound City, Barana Studio
Sound, Mixing and Mastering: Gholamreza Sadeghi
Cover Art: Landscape frome the «Surnl-e» series by Pariyoush Ganji, ink on paper (2013)
Designer: Sima Mortazavi
Photography: Kaveh Karami
PR: Sama Babaei
Production: Amir Ravanchi, Saba Ashrafi
Special thanks to: Kaveh Baghcheban, Makan Khoynezhad