In 1996, DJ Shadow released his debut album Endtroducing….., made up almost entirely of samples from various discs the American artist bought in record shops. This flagship and critically acclaimed piece of work soon became a cornerstone of the sampling culture. More than a decade later, in 2009, an Israeli musician known as Kutiman led […]
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Making Iran’s Traditional Sounds Universal
Siavash Mozaffari, a professional musician based in San Francisco, plans to travel to Iran to record sounds from the country’s traditional instruments and gather them into a sample digital library. With this project, he aims to make Persian music more accessible to the Western world. On Kickstarter, where his “Sonic Journey Through Iran” project has […]