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- artist:Mehrnam Rastegari
- featured artist:Mehrnam Rastegari
- region:New York City
- release year:2025
- style(s):Persian, Psychedelic
- country:USA
- formats:Audio File / Digital
- record posted by:Gangar
- label:Self-Released
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Dislocated Pulse is the dazzling debut album from award-winning composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Mehrnam Rastegari. Master of the kamancheh, the Persian bowed spiked fiddle. Rastegari leads a quartet of extraordinary, NYC-based musicians on a dizzying deep dive into Persian psych rock. Joined here by guitarist Amit Peled, bassist Panagiotis Andreou, drummer Dani Danor, and special guest percussionist Martin Shamoonpour on daf and dayereh, Rastegari leads this powerhouse ensemble through six original compositions and one reimagned Kurdish folk piece. The raw, otherworldly sound of the kamancheh and folk-rooted vocals anchor the music in centuries-old storytelling, while electronic effects carry them forward in time. Persian scales resurface on microtonal fretted electric guitar, echoing the Middle Eastern accent with distortion, while heavy fretless bass and expansive drums drive the sound into a bold contemporary terrain.