Noise against Silence - Compilation Release

Tuesday, 3rd January 2023

We have been busy over the break to give you a different kind of New Year’s Greeting. A noisy one from Tehran, including a great line-up, to wish everyone EQUALITY and PEACE! The world is in shambles and things seem to be more complicated than ever but with so many people fighting for the right thing we can’t help but be hopeful still.

Here is more info and a link to bandcamp below:

https://noise-a-noise.bandcamp.com/album/noise-noise-23-noise-vs-silence-vol-i-iv

Iranian Label Noise à Noise is releasing their compilation Noise à Noise 23: Noise Against the Silence in four volumes: Noise and Glitch, Contemporary and Avant-Garde, Ambient and Drone, and Field Recordings. This compilation opens the Western calendar year 2023 with contributions from Iranian artists living in Iran and abroad, and with pieces submitted by colleagues near and far. We wish everyone a year with more peace, more equality, physical and emotional safety, and the right to speak your mind wherever you are.

This compilation is coming in two separate parts on Bandcamp, each holding two of the volumes of it, also a unified release is considered for those who want to either want to buy the whole collection with a discount, or if they plan to purchase the box-set (more news about physical editions coming soon). Album are is is to be updated/ replaced here.

Artist line up: Ali Balighi (IR/US), Alireza Amirhajebi (IR), Alya Al Sultani (Iraq/ UK), Arshan Najafi (IR), Ashkin Shabani (IR), Babak Sepanta (IR), Balam Ronan (CH), Blatta Joux (DE), Cedrik Fermont (NL/DE), Chem XP (US), Ehsan Saboohi (IR), Fuzzle Schnozzle (IR), FREQ.EXP (IR/ DE), Ibukun Sunday (NGR), Jesus Valeni (VE /IT), Katharina Stadler (Austria/ Georgia), Kian Hossein (IR), Leonie Roessler (DE/NL), LIZA Ensemble (IR/ DE), Mohamad Nikpour (IR), Negar Kharkan (IR), Nour Kara and Juliette Capel (IR/ FR), Ramin Ashtary (IR), Robbert van Hulzen (NL), Sahar Homami (IR/CA/DE), Shain Souri (IR), Silo Portem (SCT), Soheil Soheili (IR), Wondering O (EE), WIRE Ensemble (IR/ DE), Zhoobin Askarieh & Ali Sasha (IR).