Beautiful Apparitions, by Parham Ghalamdar

Beautiful Apparitions

by Parham Ghalamdar

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1.	The Magical Hand of the Night 02:32	buy track
2.	Believe Me, After You... 03:10	buy track
3.	My Beautiful Bird, Pt. 1 01:38	buy track
4.	Greengrocer 01:29	buy track
5.	My Death Is Infamy for You 03:05	buy track
6.	You Can Reduce the Distances 11:00	buy track
7.	My Heart, I Mistakenly Gave You My Heart 05:13	buy track
8.	My Beautiful Bird, Pt. 2 03:50	buy track
9.	Where Did the Spring Go? 04:56	buy track
10.	Six Days in the North and I Didn't Even Miss You 01:03	buy track
11.	I Returned Without You 02:09	buy track
12.	Winter is the Nude Garden 02:35	buy track
13.	My Beautiful Bird, Pt. 3 04:11	buy track

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Tehran-born, Manchester-based artist Parham Ghalamdar provides a suite of raw & candid amateur-performed Persian folk, pop songs and poetry - all pulled from the audio on his parents archive of homemade VHS recordings documenting intimate, joyous & illicit gatherings in turn-of-the-century Iran.

"Beautiful Apparitions is a collection of audio excerpts from digitized VHS tapes recorded by my parents in early-noughties Iran. The footage depicts the secret double lives of Iranians drinking, dancing, and singing to celebrate life when owning a VHS player was illegal in the Islamic Republic. The footage is an amateur performance of pop and folklore songs about love, loss and life. Although many Iranians must have recorded such vivid moments, they are rarely made available publicly. Such tapes would usually have been well hidden, lost, or purposefully destroyed."

— Parham Ghalamdar

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released October 7, 2022

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