Mystic AM

Collaborative project of Rod Modell and label founder Ario Farahani. Conceived as an immersive fictional soundtrack piece. Utilizing an extensive collection of old Iranian records as source material, the album is an intoxicating mise-en-scéne of whispering melodies, undulating rhythms, synaesthetically rich with mazy hall-of-mirrors FX and high grade hashish potency. Textures seep into one another in washes of colour, and hallmarks of classical Persian sounds filter through – the slow stroll of the daf