{"id":66133,"date":"2020-11-23T19:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=66133"},"modified":"2020-11-23T19:07:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T18:07:02","slug":"labour-nine-slum-sorcery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/labour-nine-slum-sorcery\/","title":{"rendered":"The witchcraft of LABOUR on new album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The album <em>nine-sum sorcery<\/em> is the first release from Berlin duo LABOUR. It marks an&nbsp; ambitious project led by Iranian Farahnaz Hatam and American Colin Hacklander, known since 2018 for their large-scale performances in concert halls and museums such as the Kraftwerk Berlin, the Martin Gropius Bau and the Kunsthalle Z\u00fcrich. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>With their avant-garde style, the duo aims to link Iran, Kurdistan, Europe, the United States and Africa through myth and music. To do so, they feature guests like Kurdistan&#8217;s famous pop star Hani Mojthedy, as well as visual artists such as the Turkish Enes G\u00fc\u00e7 and Zeynep Schilling, and the Slovak Evelyn Bencicova.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018witchcraft\u2019 refers to the ancient legend of Gog and Magog, the Persian modal music system Dastgah, the archaeologist and professor of ancient mathematics Hamid Parsani, the Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani, and the Iranian poets Sohrab Sepehri, Ahmad Shamlou, Rahim Loghmani. For Farahnaz Hatam and Colin Hacklander, creative expression and philosophical research are inseparable. They are seeking to &#8220;<em>create a space within the music where we can create the possibility of reaching into another place and perhaps asking the question: what is the nature of being?<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"LABOUR feat. Hani Mojtahedy Presents: nine-sum sorcery - Part One\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wvoK172QBtI?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption> LABOUR feat. Hani Mojtahedy  &#8220;nine-sum sorcery &#8211; Part One&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The album can be understood as a hidden incitement to dark energies, a countdown that finishes with terrible, oil-drenched power that will be released in the Earth\u2019s final reckoning, in which everything will be reduced to dust. This ritual is brought to light by enigmatic electronic compositions that are accompanied by percussion by LABOUR, as well as the haunting vocal performances of Mojtahedy, who delivers Kurdish and Persian verses: a poem by the Iranian modernist Sohrab Sepehri, followed by verses from the poems of Ahmad Shamlou and Rahim Loghmani. The melodic vocal line she uses follows the dastgah \u2013 a modal musical system that is one of the main components of traditional Persian music&nbsp; employed here through the dastgahs Homayoun, Mahour, Hijaz and Nava.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LABOUR is also organising a residency in Berlin in order to get closer to Sabar, Mbalax, Sufi, Dakar and Senegal thanks to exceptional collaborations with singer Souleymane Faye, the fresh and avant-garde Ibaaku, drummer Birame Ndiaye Rose, Viviane Chididid and Mbene Diatta Seck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album <em>nine-sum sorcery<\/em> is available on all streaming platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"1010\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eea18e47-2905-4bcb-bfc2-02a255ca00b2-1010x1010.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eea18e47-2905-4bcb-bfc2-02a255ca00b2-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eea18e47-2905-4bcb-bfc2-02a255ca00b2-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eea18e47-2905-4bcb-bfc2-02a255ca00b2-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eea18e47-2905-4bcb-bfc2-02a255ca00b2-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eea18e47-2905-4bcb-bfc2-02a255ca00b2-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eea18e47-2905-4bcb-bfc2-02a255ca00b2-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eea18e47-2905-4bcb-bfc2-02a255ca00b2-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eea18e47-2905-4bcb-bfc2-02a255ca00b2-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eea18e47-2905-4bcb-bfc2-02a255ca00b2-73x73.jpg 73w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eea18e47-2905-4bcb-bfc2-02a255ca00b2.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The album nine-sum sorcery is the first release from Berlin duo LABOUR. 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