Naujawanan Baider - "Volume 1 & 2" 2LP

(Ramble Records)Limited Edition Double Vinyl on heavy black vinyl -gatefold. <a href="https://ramblerecords.bandcamp.com/album/volume-1-2">Volume 1 & 2 by Naujawanan Baider</a> Naujawanan Baidar (Farsi for Enlightened Youth) is the project of artist and musician N.R. Safi (The Myrrors). With roots in the now-endangered sounds of 1960s-80s Afghan cassette culture, Naujawanan Baidar filters the traditional music of Safi's paternal heritage through a labyrinth of buzzing drones, tape manipulation, and fuzz-drenched percussion, warping both traditional and popular forms into a tangled mass of tape-saturated noise inspired by the very medium that once carried them. Traditional folk instruments (both acoustic and home-amplified) like the rubab, armonia, sorna, and tabla, twist and melt into blown-out electrical storms, proving that one does not necessarily need guitars or any other standard western instrumentation to channel the tr