Tattoos And Other Markings
Other Minds, 2025
9/10
Listen to Tattoos And Other Markings
A composer and performer who is well versed with the violin and live electronic processing, Thea Farhadian fleshes out 4 involved tracks that surround the idea of memory and embrace worldly and classical ideas.
“Mokats Mirza” opens the listen with warm, sonic ideas that embraces glitchy bouts and plenty of mystery for its 12+ minutes, and “Eulogy” follows with no lack of sci-fi qualities that unfold with strategic repetition and an oddly soothing delivery.
The back half brings us “Inscriptions” and “There Was And There Was Not”. The former emits a distinct ambience of distant rumbling and insect like hissing, while the latter and best tune is quite jarring, unpredictable and nearly mechanical.
An effort that questions what we remember, forget and that which defines us, Farhadian’s vision is nothing short of captivating, as evidenced by this highly iconoclastic body of work.
Travels well with: Michael Mizrahi- Dreamspace; Anthony Joseph Lanman- Hommages