Sheen Trio - Gozar (2023) [Official Digital Download]

GOZAR the Sheen Trio’s debut album is released by BERTHOLD records on May 5th 2023. The line up: Shabnam Parvaresh on bass clarinet, flute and FX, Ula Martyn-Ellis on Guitar, and Philipp Buck on drums.

The album title (also the name of a track) means “passage” in Persian. Parvaresh composed all but one of the pieces. The music traces her life story from Teheran, Iran to Germany where she now lives. Moving between traditional Iranian motifs and modern experimental jazz, much of the music describes moments in Parvaresh’s journey. “In Teheran we grew up in a bubble,” says the composer. “I was so different to others. My parents listened to Ella Fitzgerald and John Coltrane, and we would watch movies. You had to call a person who would come in a taxi with a Samsonite bag full of VHS films, good ones including from the Cannes Festival. I’ve no idea how he got hold of them.” In the years before Parvaresh left Iran it was possible to connect to the internet, but with great difficulty. “It also wasn’t allowed to just go into a music store and buy rock or metal or pop music,” she recalls.

TRACKLIST

1. Sheen Trio - 5 Days 8 Hours and 35 Minutes
2. Sheen Trio - Flashback
3. Sheen Trio - Rudy the Spider
4. Sheen Trio - Fragment
5. Sheen Trio - Gozar (The Passage)
6. Sheen Trio - Katsuobushi
7. Sheen Trio - Terminal C
8. Sheen Trio - Liquid Summer
9. Sheen Trio - Collapse
10. Sheen Trio - Avang (Pendulum)



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