No one is making music quite like PAINT, the project of musician and Allah-Las guitarist Pedrum Siadatian. If a song title can be prophetic, it’s “Illusion of Voice” here, in which the vocals of real and hypothetical cast of ensemble characters and collaborators weave through a shadowy labyrinth full of twists of surrealistic transparency. From police blotter audio soundscapes to warbled poetry reads, fourth record Whip of an Ear is an obtusely captivating listen and one of the prolific musician’s best offerings yet.
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PAINT :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Pedrum Siadatian has been on a tear in 2023, creating and releasing two albums that speak to his continued artistic stretching: Zuma 85, which finds Allah-Las, the California rock band he founded with his collaborators in 2008. exploring shambolic and rhythmically dynamic art rock; and Loss For Words, a mostly instrumental jammer by his solo project PAINT. He joins us to discuss kosmische sounds, musical production, and the perils of DIY.
PAINT :: Loss For Words
From the beginning Paint has been less sweatily engaged in real-world, rock-band aesthetics than the Allah-Las. Spiritual Vegas, from 2020, draped a surreal glaze and shimmer over its drawling boogies and vamps. But Loss for Words goes much further, dissolving radio pop like a tablet of Alka-Seltzer in water, leaving nothing but bubbles.
PAINT :: Heaven In Farsi
Here’s one we’ve been listening to and playing regularly on the show since PAINT principal, Pedrum Siadatian, shared it with us this time last year: “Heaven In Farsi”– a tune that is now available, as […]