Last year, as his country descended into chaos around him, one Iranian musician was fighting to complete a creative vision that brought together post-rock artists from all around the world. Exclusively for IDIOTEQ, one of those artists takes us behind the scenes of this extraordinary new album. Late September, 2022. Iran is in turmoil as a wave of protests sweeps the country following the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. From three thousand miles away in the UK, the author of this piece is trading audio files and anxious Instagram messages with Iranian multi-instrumentalist Siamak Ghorbanian Aghdam. We’ve been working on this collaboration between our musical projects – Atonalita (his) and The Glass Pavilion (mine) – since before the unrest began, but now the...