AKBARI, ARASH — Nasur
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nāsūr (ناسور) —meaning “a wound that refuses to heal” — traces the fragile hours between midnight and sunrise: a time suspended between agitation and surrender. The album exposes the psyche of a sleepless subject drifting through internal unrest, insomnia, and anger.
Across its continuous sonic landscape, distorted drones, dissonant signals from a prepared guitar, low-frequency pulses, and fragments of processed field recordings (captured between 2021 and 2024) try to pull the listener into a psychological turbulence where time folds and disorientation settles in.
The final movements of nāsūr surrender to a bleached emotional terrain, where numbness and quiet acceptance replace turmoil. Sunrise doesn’t offer redemption, but rather a mute equilibrium, where the storm has passed, leaving behind a pale silence.
Written, produced, and performed by Arash Akbari
Recorded and composed in Tehran, spring 2024
Field recordings between 2021-24
Mastered by Tobias Lorsbach
Artwork by Arash Akbari
www.arashakbari.com
Released by Owl Totem Recordings, OTR-04
Distributed by Fonodroom, FD-46CD ~ linktr.ee/fonodroom
Factory-pressed CD, packaged in an LP-style double sleeve with a soft-touch finish. Limited to 100 copies.
owltotem.bandcamp.com/album/n-s-r
- “Nāsūr” is the latest release by Iranian artist Arash Akbari. In Persian, nāsur (ناسور) refers to a chronic, suppurating wound—one that does not heal easily. It’s a wound we all carry within us, formed through sleepless nights, overthinking, and the weight of memories tied to the people we’ve lost... - Pegah(@noir.notes.pegi) / Bandcamp
Across its continuous sonic landscape, distorted drones, dissonant signals from a prepared guitar, low-frequency pulses, and fragments of processed field recordings (captured between 2021 and 2024) try to pull the listener into a psychological turbulence where time folds and disorientation settles in.
The final movements of nāsūr surrender to a bleached emotional terrain, where numbness and quiet acceptance replace turmoil. Sunrise doesn’t offer redemption, but rather a mute equilibrium, where the storm has passed, leaving behind a pale silence.
Written, produced, and performed by Arash Akbari
Recorded and composed in Tehran, spring 2024
Field recordings between 2021-24
Mastered by Tobias Lorsbach
Artwork by Arash Akbari
www.arashakbari.com
Released by Owl Totem Recordings, OTR-04
Distributed by Fonodroom, FD-46CD ~ linktr.ee/fonodroom
Factory-pressed CD, packaged in an LP-style double sleeve with a soft-touch finish. Limited to 100 copies.
owltotem.bandcamp.com/album/n-s-r
- “Nāsūr” is the latest release by Iranian artist Arash Akbari. In Persian, nāsur (ناسور) refers to a chronic, suppurating wound—one that does not heal easily. It’s a wound we all carry within us, formed through sleepless nights, overthinking, and the weight of memories tied to the people we’ve lost... - Pegah(@noir.notes.pegi) / Bandcamp