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CMU Approved
Approved: Hiatus (Best Of Approved 2010)
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 8 December 2010
Cyrus Shahrad is a journalist, travel writer and award-winning novelist. He also DJs and writes music under the name Hiatus, and released his first album, ‘Ghost Notes’, in October. The album draws heavily on samples of Persian music that was outlawed after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, an upheaval which also led to Shahad’s family fleeing the country when he was a year old. Shahrad rediscovered the music when he more recently unearthed his father’s record collection in Tehran.
The opening track from the album, ‘Save Yourself’, is due to be released on 13 Dec through Lucky Thunder Records. It’s the perfect calling card for the Hiatus sound; melancholy in tone, but with stirring strings that pull the rest of the track along as it gradually swells in size. It’s just beautiful. You can hear that, along with the rest of the album, on SoundCloud.
