آبـان (Aban)

2024

digital and limited edition red translucent cassette tape with hand embossed obi wrap.

release date: October 4, 2024

Limited Edition of 150 cassette tapes co-released and available for purchase via Sming Sming Books and and crystalline morphologies!

Pre-orders ship in October.

Each composition in Sholeh Asgary’s electro-acoustic album آبـان Aban moves the listener through a series of unpredictable atmospheres, where tonal and sonic events erupt from sustained and reverberating textures. The album’s pulsating colors are punctuated by shifting timbres, moments of silence, and Asgary’s voice, which appears both human and ghostly—fragments of wailing and singing emerge from an adjacent world. Informed by Iranian cosmologies, آبـان Aban is engrossing and gratifying with its myth-making and spatial invention, created as a regenerative form of resistance.

Track Listing

Aban (8:39)
Nectarine (7:07)
5 (9:04)
Anahita (6:40)

All tracks recorded, composed, and performed by Sholeh Asgary in 2023–2024.

Mixed by Sholeh Asgary. Mastering by Thomas Dimuzio at Gench Studio, San Francisco (gench.com)