MIRS - Singles 1218
MIRS (my ongoing music project + collaborations) just re-released 7 standalone singles (including a new soundtrack cut) on a single "disc". The record spans 2012-2018.
Tracklist (with original release dates):
1) Kayla (2012)
2) Take Away (2012)
3) Summer God Complex (2014)
4) Woke up on the Moon (2015)
5) Moonlighting Mission Man (2017) ** - the link is to the visual short film**
6) Saturday (2018)
7) Hafiz Drinks from the Cup of Time (2018)
Where to stream (or buy)
- Itunes
- Spotify
- Bandcamp
- Pandora
MIRS - Singles 1218
Saturday - Mirs (lyric video)
Mirs "Saturday" lyric video just went live. While you are here, please subscribe to the Mirs Youtube channel. For more info on MIRS, please head over to www.mirsmusic.com. Mirs is currently recording the album, RAINBOW SEASON, scheduled for release sometime this summer.
MIRS SATURDAY to release 5/4/18
SATURDAY is the prelude single for the upcoming MIRS record, RAINBOW SEASON. The single will release on all major platforms on Friday, May 4th, 2018.
This track is extra special as it includes some instrumentation from my old SHANKS AND THE DREAMERS bandmate, Art Toussi.
what do you know of water’s worth while standing on the banks of the euphrates
(if inclined, please watch the work first...it runs 15min.)
Tomorrow marks the online premiere of my latest work (today for you) which I have conveniently embedded the link in this post. (if you prefer, on vimeo here)
This project functions as both a standalone film and also, a visual single for "Moonlighting MIssion Man", the latest release from my music project MIRS.
Two birds, one stone on the shallow end, a postmodernist twist on a Rene Magritte expression on the pretentious end. Both, equally as valid.
This is the working synopsis or thesis put through a press release blender: "The film captures an intimate sliver into an Iranian American Sufi Muslim poet (Mahsa Hosseini) as she goes about finding meaning in her life. The visual narrative, shot in a classic cinéma vérité style, provides a strong counterpoint to the hidden, synth-driven, processed vocals in "Moonlighting Mission Man". The video eludes to a dual narrative between the film & the music, though kept hidden from plain sight."
Ultimately, this project started with this question, "Is this a short film or a music video?". And for me, ended with identity. (an ephemeral thing, with real-world consequences).
But back to Magritte, and equally, Jean Baudrillard. Why is the opening question important to me? Media (and its contents) by in large is an open-ended question nowadays, and while I'm personally working through the details of this new paradigm, doing so with a dichotomous media might be my best way of processing it. What is a film? What is a tweet? How are they different? These are important questions in hyperreality when words have less direct meaning, and content rules all.
Merch finally available for my music project MIRS
You can finally pick up an awesome t-shirt in many different sizes for my ongoing music project MIRS by clicking the image below (15% off for the time being). All sales feed right back into the project, so, not only a good way to support but more important, a fresh way to get outside and stunt on your neighbors. Love yall :)
New Short Film (visual single) Premiering Soon - Collab with MIRS
Dropping a new project late Nov, or early next month titled, "what do you know of waters worth while standing on the banks of the euphrates".
MIRS
For the last couple years (actually, since the beginning of this), I've compartmentalized my music projects and my film work into separate spaces. And, I'll continue doing that, but with some important changes.
For one, MIRS is turning into as much a visual project as music, but with music as its fundamental core. The last record we did, CANYON, was a visual album and the imagery was co-tangent with the music. It played as a dual narrative.
In fact, I have been trying that since I started MIRS, with the debut release, SPIN CYCLE. But, I came short of the resources required to pull that off. That was essentially a visual album (before that became a mainstream thing), without it ever becoming a visual album, strictly because I couldn't pull it off (resource wise). Truth is, an idea is just an idea, and they are a dime a dozen.
Every time I start writing music, I preface it as a final act. The last record was supposed to be the final songs I write, and then, this last single, MOONLIGHTING MISSION MAN became the last piece of commercial music I write. Eventually, there will be a last, but I think I'm do for at least one more effort, as a new concept came my way, and I want to attempt bringing it to life. This feeling might change, but, my mouth doesn't want to shut yet.
Though, this one has larger ambitions, which means, I will be up against bigger barriers.
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CANYON - The Visual Album - Personal Thoughts #01
Was just reflecting on the emergence of "Visual Albums" after this article was brought to my attention highlighting CANYON. Truth be told, I did not want to label CANYON as such since it comes at the heels of amazing visual releases, but i've been personally trying to put together a "visual album" since 2010, and failing to execute until CANYON.
My first attempt came at the release of my first MIRS solo EP, SPIN CYCLE. I couldn't pull resources together to execute. The second time came with the release of MEAT ON YOUR LONELY BONEZ, and again, while a treatment was prepared and some meetings arranged, we never went ahead and executed. Which, in hindsight proves valuable, since I feel those concepts lacking cohesion now. But, thats the truth with any work from the past done, or undone.
The interesting question here is how this one came about and why the other two attempts failed. Simply, we reversed the process of production. We first shot CANYON, the film, then we got to finishing the record. Of course, both these things were happening concurrently, but we got the visuals in the can in November of 2015. In fact, a couple rotting pumpkins show up on frame for the astute observer. The rest of the process took the time it takes for any project to develop, especially exasperated by the fact that career responsibilities lay elsewhere.
I'll leave you here with CANYON if you haven't seen it or are just coming across this. My recommendations include a) headphones b) some quiet downtime c) fullscreen. Also, afterwards, check out this mini doc below with the incredible artist. ALI SABET, describing the process of creating the artwork for the whole project.
CANYON is live
We launched the MIRS project CANYON on 09-06-16, All the info about it can be found here. I'm relieved that it's done, but very much enjoyed this particular process with the help of my collaboration with Nima Rezai.
The record is available to stream or buy at iTunes, Bandcamp, or at our very own store which includes a PDF version of the CANYON Artbook here.
We are also selling a very limited number of CANYON Art Prints here, signed and numbered by the incredible artist, Ali Sabet.
This was a SABET + MIRS collaboration with its own very unique process, some of which is detailed in the video below.
CANYON 09-06-16
MIRS project CANYON goes live one week from today. (hopefully)
What is CANYON:
a deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it.
Two steps required:
a) Order the pre-sale
b) Subscribe to MIRS Youtube Channel to experience the correct mode of transmission.
MIRS - Dayz Music Video is Live Now
My guaranteed offer to you if you peruse this:
Headphones + Phone Notifications Turned Off + A Nice Place to Sit + 10minutes = A Meditative State Infused with a Skewed Conception of Time.
This is the first video & probably the only one to accompany the MEAT ON YOUR LONELY BONEZ EP.
The footage is the first reconceptualization of the DROPS IN YOUR STREAM single channel video experiment I ran from Oct-Dec 2014, sans one day. The goal is to have it show up in a few different media.
If you enjoy this video, please comment and subscribe to the all the MIRS Youtube Channel. We are working on a new track at the moment, which will go live with a video as well.
Onwards, upwards & forwards friends,
am
This Weeks Video Rant w/ Amir Motlagh
Welcome to my video update of the second week of Feb, 2015. Below, you will find
things discussed in this (un)episode. The path continues friends.
Tim Ferriss Podcast:
http://fourhourworkweek.com/podcast/
Ali Sabet:
http://www.sabet.com/
http://alisabet.com/
Books:
BOLD - Peter Diamandis
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bold-peter-h-diamandis/1120323831?ean=9781476709567
MIRS Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7dIGmt5zBaE6QRkwAcFwTg
ANIMALS Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/animalsdoingwork
Three Worlds:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4347994/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
Santa Ana Winds:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ana_winds
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nothing lasts forever, even cold November rain (and other metaphors)
Yesterday, a sort of funny little thing happened. I was MYSPACE's "Artist of the Day" for my music project MIRS.
This would have been the absolute pinnacle of web dominance for a music act if it took place in 2006, but just short of a decade later, it's a cute footnote, and a stark reminder that absolutely NOTHING LAST'S FOREVER.
So, you might currently be having the worst days of your life, but if you stick it out, make some changes and proceed with action, it can all change. That also dictates the scary, but real fact that the reverse is also just as true.
And who knows, maybe even MYSPACE, under the best circumstances & leadership, could flip that website around to it's glory days again. Anything is possible. I mean, did you just see the updated PILLARS OF CREATION photo. Seriously, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!
Make plans, and just as vital, roll with those waves.
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