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Recorded live on Oct 7, 2022, by Tyler Wood in Sparrow Bush, NY.
Mixed and mastered by Tyler Wood at Sauce Farm Studio, Catskill, NY
”Dedicated to the bravery of the women of Iran, and all the people who are fighting to live free of tyranny in my homeland.” - Mani Nilchiani
Remix Examples
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NYC / Morocco
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We've meticulously prepared a collection of remix-friendly audio (loops and one-shots) and video (stems) from the above album and are making them available as free downloads with a Creative Commons BY NC SA license, which allows you to remix and share them solely for non-commercial purposes, as long as you always give credit to Remix ⟷ Culture and Mani Nilchiani, and provide a link to this very same license.
If you end up making killer remixes and you'd like to earn money from remixing our audio, contact us for a licensing agreement.
Audio Downloads
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Video Downloads
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Artist Bio, Photos, and Social Media
Mani Nilchiani is an Iranian musician & designer based in New York and Mexico. In his music, he explores the notion of Home as an evolving transitory space of imagination and memory.
He uses elements of Iranian classical music (Radif) to retrace, explore and retell a story of displacement while researching new genre-bending sonic spaces. With his project “Tan Haw”, he releases music solo and with collaborators. In 2018, Mani co-founded Disco Tehran, an international culture platform, dance party and live performance project and co-lead the initiative until 2023. He’s also a design lead at IDEO where he helps interdisciplinary design teams innovate human-centered products and services.
Mani has performed in venues such as Moma PS1, Public Records, Barbes, Symphony Space in NYC, and La Bestia, Aire Libre and ATEA in Mexico City.
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MANI LIVE AT TANFIS PREMIERE
This video is an excerpt of a 3-hour event which took place on November 30th, 2022 at Public Records in Brooklyn, NY. The full-length video of the event is available on Viewcy.
This was the first live installment of our latest project: "Tanfis," a series of collaborations between traditional musicians, remix artists, and DJs rooted in the SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) region. The evening presented a 3-hour immersive journey seamlessly blending acoustic traditional performances with electronic dance and live video remixing, drawing us all into a cathartic release. Leading this journey were a collective of critically acclaimed artists from Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, and the US:
• Marwan Allam (bass) • Nezih Antakli (percussion) • Layale Chaker (violin) • The Brooklyn Nomads' Hadi and Mo Eldebek (oud, bouzouk, percussion, voice) • Eren Erdogan (zurna, kaval, duduk) • Remix ⟷ Culture's HAT (live video remixing) • John Murchison (qanun) • Haza's Myyuh (DJ and live remixing) • Mani Nilchiani (setar, voice, electronics).
Prior to the event, we recorded and filmed traditional SWANA music performed by the Tanfis artists, created audio and video remixes of those recordings, and collectively designed how the various ingredients would intentionally come together on this one special evening. The series explores the theme of "Tanfis," which is understood in Arabic as the journey of the nafs (self/soul) from a place of stuckness towards liberation, from the holding of breath to the exhalation. In English, tanfis can be translated as "catharsis." The notion of tanfis invites us to meet the crises of our time with transcendent revelry. To lean into our imaginations. To create together, locally, globally, and in solidarity. We are grateful for the support of our community and our co-sponsors Delight Factory and Brooklyn Maqam.