Tehran-born, Paris-based artist Sara Bigdeli Shamloo is half of the duo 9T Antiope, but she also records solo under the name SarrSew. Shamloo began playing classical violin at the age of 8, but actually cites heavy metal as her first love. "I have a recorded tape of the two-year-old me singing a metal song and later being the lead headbanger in [my brothers'] bands!," she said in an interview.
While previous SarrSew tracks were composed for theatre and film (Shamloo was studying Theater Directing at Tehran University before she dropped out), Farewell, Warden, from the 2018 album Girih: Iranian Sound Artists, marks her solo debut single. It is a haunting, somber chant sung in English over an eerie, yet meditative lullaby that culminates in an erratic blur of feedback.
Shamloo is currently in the studios with 9T Antiope, recording the album Placebo, the third and final part of the trilogy Isthmus:Nocebo:Placebo, which will be out later this year. As SarrSew, she is working on an album/monologue/performance titled Loss in The Room / An Homage To Death.
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