Posts TaggedAta Ebtekar

Iran’s Majesty and Decay: An Interview With Sote

Foxy Digitalis depends on our awesome readers to keep things rolling. Pledge your support today via our Patreon. Tehran’s Sote aka Ata Ebtekar and I go back over a decade. I was already a big fan of Persian Electronic Music: Yesterday And Today 1966 – 2006 (Sub Rosa, 2008) when Ebtekar reached out to me about a potential cassette release […]

Video Premiere: Sote “I’m Trying But I Can’t Reach You Father”

A determined intensity saturates Sote’s new album, Majestic Noise Made in Beautiful Rotten Iran. Scathing melodies are pushed through a particle accelerator to form new temperaments and glaze existing scales in a plating of molten chrome. Sote never rests. As a composer, he is constantly deconstructing his ideas and reconfiguring them in new, sometimes unimaginable ways. […]