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   https://rojinsharafi.bandcamp.com/album/o-o-orifice

   'O.O.Orifice' is the fourth album by Vienna-based Iranian sound artist and composer Rojin Sharafi. This work explores the space of "in-between" — the distance of "before" and "after" as it pertains to a life-altering event - the moment that creates a cut. This cut, this fracture, this wound is something that reopens now and then. It calls to you, asking to be heard, smelled, and felt.

   When your ear was pierced,
   When your chest was pierced,
   When your heart was pierced,
   When your throat was pierced,
   When your head was pierced,
   When your hand was pierced,
   When your nose was pierced—

   The cut creates a new space. An in-between space that disrupts the unity of order. A space with an origin all to its own—not inside, not outside; neither full nor empty. It is nameless until you discover it and give it a name. It creates coordinates that challenge your perception, and this is what this work strives to do.

   'O.O.Orifice' follows a common thread, allowing for different stories to be told with a focus on the cut. Analog synthesizers, microtonal acoustic and digital instruments, scattering rhythms and poetry converge to form a narrative about love and attraction, psychoanalysis, internalized shame, language and its complexities, loss of home, and rejection.

   Each track has characters that shape its subplot through color and texture, with events and atmospheres that either complete the story or alter its initial direction. And what ties all these stories together is orifice—the space in between, the gateway, an opening that is both pain and, simultaneously, a channel flowing into depth—the part beyond the pain.

   Each cut left a mark on your body, on my body, and screams not to be forgotten.
   credits
   released November 15, 2024

   written, recorded, produced by Rojin Sharafi
   additional mixing by Patrick Pulsinger
   sonic optimization by GENG PTP

   cover art by Hessam Samavatian
   addl art & design by Winona Hudec
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   https://soundcloud.com/strumandiodine/si035-rojin-sharafi

   "I made this mix some days after finishing working at a toxic workspace - a dance production- as a musician. This mix made the healing process easier and more pleasant for me. I needed to dig into sounds, rhythms and textures that kept inspiring me in the last months. It’s fulfilling to be able to share these gems."

   Iraj Rahman-pur - Rara (Laki)
   Emptyset - Borders - 01 Body
   9T Antiope - Placebo - 01 Dose I (Danse Macabre)
   Boris & Merzbow - Away from You
   Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois - Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois - 03 United P92
   Judgitzu - Umeme - Kelele - 01 Umeme
   Nihiloxica - Nihiloxica - 02 Choir Chops
   Lanark Artefax - Moo Orphaned Drift
   Primus - Eyes Of The Squirrel
   Giant Swan - 55 Year Old Daughter
   9T Antiope - Placebo - 01 Dose I (Danse Macabre)
   Xiu Xiu - Girl with Basket of Fruit - 04 Ice Cream Truck
   Slikback & Hyph11E - Slip B - 04 Hyph11E - Black Pepper (Slikback Remix)
   Parisa - Tasnif, Avaz & Saz
   Autechre - Exai - 05 T ess xi
   serpentwithfeet - soil - 05 mourning song
   Flora Yin-Wong - Holy Palm - 05 Aurochs
   Zaliva-D - Zaliva-D - Forsaken - 01 A1 - Zaliva-D - Can't Go Back
   FRKTL - Excision After Love Collapses - 06 دَفْق (Crash Blossoms)
   Sote - Artificial Neutrality
   Sepideh Raissadat - Bayât-e Tork
   Caterina Barbieri - Fantas Variations - 02 Bendik Giske - Fantas for Saxophone and Voice
   Isabella Forciniti - Freak Antòni
   Jan Jelinek - The Ballad Of Soap Und- Die GEMA Nimmt Kontakt Auf

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