Touch introduce a new artist to their roster, a 26 year old called Sohrab from Tehran. His startlingly beautiful first release 'A Hidden Place', is a six track album of elaborate ambient electronics and textured drones. Sohrab's music is understandably informed by a life isolated from outside cultures, and even displaced in his own country, which makes his instinctively blissful yet subtly menacing music all the more remarkable. In 'Susanna' we glean lulling rhythms reminiscent of Biosphere's 'Dropsonde' while in 'Pedagogicheskaya Poema' we're reminded of BJ Nilsen and Stilluppsteypa's 'Space Finale', but of course these sounds are informed by Sohrab's own natural taste for occluded darkness. Highly recommended to fans of Deathprod, Hildur Guddnadottir, Fennesz or Kevin Drumm.A1 Susanna 9:51 A2 Somebody 5:59 A3 Pedagogicheskaya Poema 3:28 B1 Himmel Uber Tehran 5:31 B2 A Hidden Place 9:27 B3 Zarrin 6:16
