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Iranian Progressive Rock in your language!
"Progressive rock knows no border! Salim Ghazi Saeedi, an Iranian progressive rock composer launched his multilingual website!" My music has always been instrumental, knowing no language barrier in nature. But still my mind does not stop from…
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Iconophobic: Music Beyond the Visible
The world does not always arrive as a coherent picture. Sometimes it comes in fragments: a face, a gesture, an image that refuses to settle into meaning. I find myself lingering over these impressions, listening for something that the eye cannot…
Read article →Multicultural Sonic Unconsciousness
After releasing Iconophobic album, something extraordinary happened. Critics started comparing my sound to composers and bands I have never listened to. Here are four examples: "In many ways it would be more natural to hear this kind of music…
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Music is Bloody! A True Story
A "progressive" musician knows no border; but it seems that Salim Ghazi Saeedi's ancestors enjoy hunting him down in his veins! Iran, Tehran - Salim grew up in Iran; a country too proud of its ancient art. Nevertheless Salim from his early…
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Oud and Electric Guitar: Ancient Lore vs. Modern Technology
"an instrumental jewel that would have corpses dancing in the graveyard." - Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck, MuzikReviews.com, Jan 2011 [more] Iran, Tehran, 1/1/11 - Unusual as it may sound, a musician of classical Persian background working in…
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Iconophobic: Satire, bizarre phobias and embryonic love
Iran, Tehran - Rock music is of course not rooted in Iran, but the enticement within the genre has strikingly pierced Salim Ghazi Saeedi’s heart in his hometown. Living in a country with total domination of traditional culture, Salim has globally…
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I make music, do you know the words?
Progressive rock is about innovation and transcending borders... As a musician, I naturally take the burden of the music part; but when it comes to communicating about the music there comes language barriers. In a non-organic solution, I could…
Read article →Pictorial Rock
I dream… and dream… and dream…I live in my world of fantasy.Walking in this world, I compose as I hear, and rest as I quiet. Pictorial rock is a term I use for my music that is usually based on series of mental images, a nightmare or maybe dreams…
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