{"product_id":"zen228","title":"Ash Koosha - I AKA I","description":"\u003cp\u003eNinja Tune are proud to announce the forthcoming release of a new album, \u003cem\u003eI AKA I\u003c\/em\u003e, from \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/ninjatune.net\/artist\/ash-koosha\"\u003eAsh Koosha\u003c\/a\u003e. Born in Iran and currently living in London, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/ninjatune.net\/artist\/ash-koosha\"\u003eAsh\u003c\/a\u003e makes the kind of “\u003cem\u003emind-bending electronic music\u003c\/em\u003e” (Pitchfork), which has had the cognoscenti buzzing for months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Working mainly with his own field recordings, treating each sampled source as a physical object, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/ninjatune.net\/artist\/ash-koosha\"\u003eKoosha\u003c\/a\u003e squeezes, stretches, distorts and moulds units of sound before using a background in classical music - both Persian and Western - gleaned from his time at the Tehran Conservatory of Music to structure and shape the result into affecting, original and often beautiful movements - a process he calls “\u003cem\u003efinding geometry in sounds.\u003c\/em\u003e”\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/ninjatune.net\/artist\/ash-koosha\"\u003eKoosha\u003c\/a\u003e has already lived and done more than most artists do in a lifetime, not least being imprisoned in Iran for his music and having to seek asylum in the UK. More important to him are his current activities, from film and synaesthetic experiments to FACT Albums of the Year and support from the likes of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/ninjatune.net\/artist\/run-the-jewels\"\u003eRun The Jewels\u003c\/a\u003e and Empress OF, to an interest in virtual reality which will lead to a world’s first VR “\u003cem\u003eexperience\u003c\/em\u003e” of his new album, at special ‘viewings’ next year. His process sounds technical and the results are both destructive as well as constructive, but the resulting album \u003cem\u003eI AKA I\u003c\/em\u003e is also fundamentally human, and that’s set to take \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/ninjatune.net\/artist\/ash-koosha\"\u003eKoosha\u003c\/a\u003e to a whole new level. \r\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ninjatune","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":44934215073951,"sku":"ZENCD228","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":44934215106719,"sku":"ZEN228","price":23.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0493\/8563\/5999\/products\/i-aka-i-main.jpg?v=1736246553","url":"https:\/\/merch.ninjatune.net\/products\/zen228","provider":"Ninja Tune","version":"1.0","type":"link"}