I AM THE NEW BABY IN THE AVANT GARDE, EXPERIMENTAL SCENE AND I AM TAKING BABY STEPS, HERE'S SOME BASIC INFO ON ME: I PLAY OVER 40 INSTRUMENTS AND NOISE. I HAVE A FAIRYTALE CONCEPT ALBUM OUT CALLED ANGRA MANYU, IT IS ABOUT A BREATHING RITUAL, IT HAS 65 TRACKS OF IMROV. I RECORDED IT ON A HOME RECORDER AFTER SCHOOL A FEW YEARS AGO AND WAS SHOCKED WHEN IT TOOK OFF AND I WAS INVITED TO PLAY SXSW IN 2004. I WAS EVEN MORE EXCITED WHEN MY FAVORITE DRUMMER, MARTIN ATKINS OF MINISTRY AND PIGFACE INVITED ME TO PLAY FREE-FORM DRUMS WITH HIM ON MY FRAME DRUM IN THE PIGFACE TOUR 2004 AFTER I OPENED FOR PIGFACE IN HOUSTON. BUT IT WAS ONLY FOR A FEW PIGFACE GIGS BECAUSE I WANTED TO GET BACK TO MY OWN PROJECT. WHEN THE CD WAS DONE I DECIDED TO TURN DOWN OTHER LABEL OFFERS AND JUST START MY OWN LABEL SO I COULD HELP OTHER ARTISTS GET NOTICED. I NOW OWN A RECORD LABEL CALLED ELLAHY AMEN RECORDS BASED IN PARIS FRANCE AND AUSTIN TX, IT IS HOME TO 6 YEAR OLD JAPANESE AMERICAN ARTIST MAYA BOND AND THE BRILLIANT LEXION BLACKLORD. BEFORE I DID THIS I WROTE FREELANCE ARTICLES ABOUT UNDERGROUND MUSIC FROM AGE 14 FOR SMALL LOCAL PAPERS THAT WOULD LET ME WRITE AT THAT AGE, MY FIRST JOB WAS INTERVIEWING TRENT REZNOR FROM NIN, HE WAS VERY NICE. I STUDIED PLAYWRIGHTING AND DIRECTING WITH EDWARD ALBEE, SHAKESPEARE AND DIRECTING WITH SIR PETER HALL, SAMURAI COMBAT/ANCIENT WEAPONRY WITH MANY MASTERS SUCH AS BRIAN BYRNES AND QUANTUM PHYSICS HAS BEEN A BIG AREA OF STUDY FOR ME. I AM PERSIAN, BORN IN IRAN BUT LIVED ALL OVER THE WORLD GROWING UP. HOWEVER, I DID GO TO SCHOOL IN IRAN AND SPEAK FLUENT FARSI. I LOVE QUANTUM PHYSICS, CREATING MY OWN REALITY, CHARLES AZNAVOUR, COOKING EUROPEAN DISHES, SWIMMING, BOATING OR WADING IN THE CLEAN COLD CREEKS AND LAKES BY MY HOUSE, PLACES WHERE I CAN SEE LOTS OF BIG BRIGHT STARS AT NIGHT, SMELLING FRESH WARM HAY IN THE SUN, HORSE RIDING, SNOW, GOOD MUSIC, DRESSING UP FOR FANCY BALLS AND GALAS, EUROPE, PERSIAN POETRY, READING LOTS OF BOOKS, TENNIS, TENNIS TOURNAMENTS, ATP, GOING TO CHURCH, DOING CHARITY WORK, THEATRE, PHOTOGRAPHY, BEING ORIGINAL AND CHOPIN, OH HOW I LOVE CHOPIN...
(WHAT I DO NOT LIKE...THIEVES WHO STEAL IDEAS FROM ARTISTS.) SCROLL DOWN FOR SOME QUOTES ABOUT ME BY OTHERS SUCH AS TREY FROM MR. BUNGLE/MIMICRY, NAUT HUMAN FROM ASPHODEL AND ALAN FROM SUN CITY GIRLS IN MY "SOUNDS LIKE" SECTION."ANGRA MANYU"
MANY OF YOU HAVE KINDLY ASKED ABOUT BUYING THE CD SO HERE IS INFO: I ONLY MADE A FEW THOUSAND COPIES AND WILL NOT MAKE MORE JUST TO KEEP IT UNDERGROUND, AND DID NOT PUT IT IN STORES FOR SAME REASON, BUT I HAVE ABOUT 400 COPIES LEFT. YOU CAN BUY MY CD ANGRA MANYU AT MY LABELS STORE PAGE http://ellahyamenrecords.com/store.htm WITH PAYPAL OR WRITE TO ME FOR OTHER OPTIONS, WE ARE A BIT LIKE A NONPROFIT SO PROCEEDS GO TOWARDS SIGNING OTHER BANDS TO OUR LABEL. MY CD IS A FAIRYTALE ABOUT A GIRL WHO USES A BREATHING TECHNIQUE CALLED CHAOS TO CALM TO ENTER THE UNKNOWN REALMS OF HER OWN MIND, QUANTUM REALMS, WHERE SHE MEETS ALL SORTS OF STRANGE CHARACTERS AND COMPLICATED EMOTIONS, IT IS FULL OF SHAKESPEARE AND MAY, I HAVE NOTICED, AT TIMES BE BETTER INTERPRETED BY THOSE WITH A PLAWRIGHTING, LIT OR THEATRE BACKGROUND, (FOR EXAMPLE MANY HAVE THOUGHT MY SONG BARE BODKIN MEANT A NAKED BOTTOM WHEN IT IS HAMLETS LINE ABOUT SUICIDE WITH A BARE KNIFE.) I ALSO USED MY BACKGROUND IN PHYSICS TO ADD SOME EXPERIMENTS INTO THE ALBUM, I CALLED IT INTRODUCING LIVE CREATURES IN THE FORM OF PHOTONS INTO CERTAIN NOISE SONGS AND MANY HAVE SAID THE ALBUM PLAYS DIFFERENT EVERYTIME, SONGS AND OR STATIC APPEAR AND DISAPPEAR AT TIMES, THATS MY FAV PART, I LIVED NEAR NASA IN SEABROOK AT THE TIME SO I FELT INSPIRED TO EXPERIMENT..
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