Arian Shafiee is a Brooklyn-based Middle Eastern guitarist and improviser known for his work in the off-kilter dance-punk band Guerilla Toss. Inspired by aspects of non-western tuning and extended techniques, he crafts moments of dense, shimmering harmony and aggressive gesture through a unique approach, hinging classical impressionism to no-wave and early minimal music. Growing up with Iranian/Turkish parents, he peripherally absorbed various middle eastern music styles, blurring their lyrical and harmonic mainstays into his writing and improvising. His current trajectory of work focuses on the deconstruction of middle eastern pop music, using technology as a means of producing episodic compositions which verge between synthetic and natural sound worlds.Subscribe to Pioneer Works:
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