Siavash Amini - Serus '2019

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“Every night is two nights, according to Maurice Blanchot. The night the
body spends in sleep is not the same as the night the dreamer spends in dreams.
The sleeping body may lie under the stars, and the dreamer may dream of the
stars—even of a journey to the stars—but the night of the dream is
a night without stars.” 

rom Siavash 
The Idea of this album, when I first started drafting it, was to continue what
struck me as very interesting yet simple idea; night. I became interested in
different definitions of what night is, our perception of it and what night
means physically to us as well as symbolically. 

I came across the idea of ‘other night’ described by Maurice
Blanchot, during my research. It started me recognising night as something we
experience as ‘the night of sleep’; it is night that we resist in
sleep, by way of dreaming. 

Things became more interesting for me during many nights of not sleeping and
intoxication, and an eventual nervous breakdown. This experience, culminating in
me spending three days in ICU, gave me pause to think about Blanchot’s
words. 

Slipping in and out of consciousness my mind, which had already experienced a
blurring of what one might call the ‘other night’ and the night
itself, by being in half sleep most of the time. I felt myself far way from all
my surroundings and at the same time being very attentive to some details in the
objects around me. It was as if my body and mind where in an in-between state. I
can only describe this as being distant or more precisely being in the dark.
Objects and people showed themselves out of proportion and mostly dim. 

A feeling to describe this sensation, the word for which I only came across
later, is ‘Serus’. There was a sense of repetition and familiarity
in some feelings and emotions that I had towards some objects like sensing I
knew them but not exactly from where or when. It was as if my body was resisting
sleep and my sleepy mind was resisting being awake, only to dream of another
type of the world that I could be awake in.

Tracklist:
01. Siavash Amini - A Recollection Of The Disappeared (9:10)
02. Siavash Amini - Semblance (8:47)
03. Siavash Amini - All That Remained Pt.1 (10:40)
04. Siavash Amini - All That Remained Pt.2 (4:57)

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