Pouya Pour-Amin // Prison Episodes CD

Flaming Pines, a label run by Kate Carr, an acoustic artist from London, England, has arrived.

This work is a CD released in 2019 by Iranian acoustic writer Pouya Pour-Amin.

Contains 7 neo-classical drone songs.It is a digipak specification.

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Flaming Pins:

"Prison Episodes, an opus five years in the making, is Pouya Pour-Amin's cry of anger and sorrow against our times. Structured as a series of sketches, this harrowing and powerful album explores the experiences of a political prisoner from her or his incarceration to breaking point.

In this era of political extremism, repression and very often despair, this album could not be more timely. Composed in Tehran, Prison Episodes is a meditation on political repression, defiance and the limits of endurance and hope. it offers a soundtrack to our global political moment.

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Artist bio:

"Pouya Pour-Amin is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and actor from Tehran, Iran. He has worked with Tehran`s Camerata contemporary music ensemble both as a double-bass player and a composer, and presented works at SET Fest in Tehran, CTM in Berlin as well as composing for theater, film and TV in Iran. He is also active, along with Sara Bigdeli Shamloo and Nima Aghiani in the band Migrain Sq. Pour-Amin first appeared on Flaming Pines as part of the Absence showcase of experimental music from Tehran, curated by Arash Akbari. This is his first full release on the label. "

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A note on the artwork:

"The artwork for this album is by the prominent Iranian contemporary artist and grave marker Barbad Golshiri. Entitled Quod 2010 it features words in Persian of the prison memories of A'ezam, a political prisoner of the 1980s, retold by Akbar Sardouzami. The text reads: reads:
'A'ezam has been degraded and tortured, living in timelessness and facelessness. She has nothing, and has turned to nothing, she says. Then one day she finds a rusty pin in her solitary confinement. She starts to draw squares, and the squares become her world:'Then I saw if I draw a square within another square and reach the depth, the square turns to a point. The cell was too dark, but I could see a point in the middle of the square that helplessly looked up at me and said: you should testify that I've been a square. You are the only one who knows that I have been and still am a square.'

Artist: Pouya Pour-Amin

Label: Flaming Pines