Label: Important Records

ジョン・ハッセルのコンポジションに影響された大推薦タイトル！！奇抜なダブやアフリカン、ドローンを出版するBoomarm Nationに諸作を残し、徐々に人気を獲得してきたイラン出身の兄弟デュオSaint Abdullahが遂にImportant Records & Cassaunaに登場！！解説の通りジョン・ハッセルより影響されたフリージャズとエレクトロニクスのミステリアスな融合が聞ける傑作であり、今回同タイトルのパート1 & パート2を同時リリース。程よく振り切れたリズムの構造、また様々な音楽要素を取り込んだ激シブ・アルバム。John Butcherを含む数人の演奏家がゲストで参加。



.... Every new St. Abdullah record is an attempt to present new ideas and To Live A La West is no exception. Spread out over a CD on Imprec and a cassette on sister label Cassauna, To Live A La West is simply moving, a collection of profound and spiritual tracks miraculously existing at the impossible intersection of free jazz and electro where mystery and clarity exist together. Neither complicated or complex but profound, St. Abdullah’s new work is partially inspired by their love for Jon Hassell’s compositions

Artist’s statement:



This album, like all of our albums, are rooted in our human stories. Personal stories, family stories. This one happens to focus on the chapter that began when we moved to Canada as kids, and left Iran for good.

To live in the West doesn't necessarily mean to be Western. That is a choice. As kids, it felt a necessity to be like the western kids.

To imitate their culture, choices, way of life. That's what was acceptable, even desirable—a life lived with less tension was the motto. We were already different enough.

It was never our parents who asked this of us. More the environment.

There was a moment, after grade 6 graduation that our mother has on film (she has everything on film), where we’re begging her to let us go to the dance that took place after the ceremonies.

Our father was strictly a no, our mother was on the fence. In the end she won out, and we got to go. It was such a wild feeling, having only been in the west 3 years at that time.

So maybe that's what this album is about, an imitation? But who we are imitating, I'm not sure anymore. No one directly, certainly, but a cannon perhaps.

Imitate better than they can infiltrate. Faster than they take over our cultures, our lands, our youth, we take over theirs.

Still reflecting...