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Welcome to an extra episode of Flowmatic Blood Moon with bonus material in the form of an interview with Mansoor Hosseini, who created the music for the podcast. Since there’s not all that much information on Mansoor available online, and since he, like Shadi Bazeghi, was originally a refugee from Iran, I thought that it might be interesting to learn a little more about his background, and the way he approached creating the music for the project.

Rudiger Meyer

Links:

Mansoor Hosseini (Wikipedia)

Mansoor Hosseini (Composer’s site)

Themus Ensemble

The Other Iran (Exhibition)

Shazia Khan (Photographer)

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Flowmatic Blood Moon er Poetisk Podcasts første tosprogede produktion, og på mange måder frugten af en fælles indsats. Shadi Bazeghis digte forholder sig til traumer, spændinger og virkningerne af krig. De er storskalerede refleksioner over vores planets aktuelle tilstand, rodfæstet i en hverdagslig poetisk intimitet. Mansoor Hosseini, der som Shadi oprindelig er flygtning fra Iran, har skabt en musik som både er moderne og nostalgisk; lydlige landskaber der åbner et dramatisk rum for ordene, og forstærker deres intensitet.

Tekst/Stemme: Shadi Bazeghi
Musik: Mansoor Mani Hosseini
Montage/Lyddesign: Rudiger Meyer

*Flowmatic Blood Moon is Poetisk Podcast’s first bilingual production and in many ways a collaborative effort. Shadi Bazeghi’s poems tackle trauma, tension, and the effects of war. Big-picture reflections on the current state of our planet rooted in a poetic intimacy of the everyday. Mansoor Hosseini, like Shadi originally a refugee from Iran, has created music that is both modern and nostalgic, creating landscapes that open a space for the words and amplify their intensity.

Text/Voice: Shadi Bazeghi
Music: Mansoor Mani Hosseini
Montage/Sound Design: Rudiger Meyer*

– [01] all hail the american night

i said: all hail the american night

— [05] you have a way of repeating things
when you program

— [01] probably but i have expanded the code

PROGRAM ID . hello-world-as-deep-as-a-paper-plate

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[05] so i hand you water

and beer in a wineglass

with ruby-red lipstick on the rim

— what are we without a little elegance

when the masks crack and we

recognize each other

by our glitches

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i am so tired i say and you’re the only one who knows

it’s a vast understatement that i am cold

as hell that time is a continuation

of the economy’s repeating pattern

absolute power circles;

the US military that buys 269,000 barrels of oil every day

war capital that pays for our excess consumption

draining the planet

populations unable to see the forest for the consumables

who turn to warlords for words of comfort

and here

in my head?

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in my PTSD brain

DISPLAY

the dissonance and gravity of the syndromes memory flashes

and a heavy oblivion corroding the spirit

there is nothing besides a poetry

à la wilderness

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[10]

it reeks of smoke and pent-up night here

the dreams grow from your hair

i awake under the bed

with shared pain and blood in my face

you say it is the blood

moon of the century

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DISPLAY september nights the divergence of melancholies

in flowmatic september nights where longing

for the sun and purple

dandelions unfold

on stems of pain

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DISPLAY september nights hoarse flowmatic september nights

an interstellar object moves into Pegasus

at 44 km per second hey

hold on we are here we are not here

EXIT PERFORM you know DISPLAY

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september nights 7-digit september nights

in what language does rain fall

over unrecognizable bodies

Common Business Oriented Language?

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Venus moves into Scorpio and your passion

your ethnic passion reeks!

there are 117 earth days between each sunrise

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– berätta något för mig

– harfi be man bezan

– berätta något för mig som inte redan finns

– tell them you came and saw and looked into my eyes

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on the other side

of the pomme grenade

trees where we lie

100 years ago

or 100 years from now and talk

about writing it all down

about melancholy

as the only reflexive emotion by definition

the only one that can cultivate

our empathy

— for earth

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the earth that constantly must.must.must.

without hope or fear or doubt

absorb all blood

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in order for us to fertilize the camp and battlefields

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[10]

glitterblack velvetnight

crystallized morning dew negligé

on the mulberry tree

i paced around the garden the frost

under my stilettos your body

still reminding me of

solar noon

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i used to get cramps

in the ovaries

in the morning mist

used to feel a kinship

with Himalayan birds

black nightshade

in the morning mist

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i drank absinth that morning habibi

the birds drank chlorine water

they flew from table to table

eating abandoned

bread scrambled eggs fear

you said *what woman

is so enamored of her own oppression

that she cannot see her heelprint

upon another woman’s face?*

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English Translation: Flowmatic, Shadi Angelina Bazeghi, Gyldendal, 2020, translated by Katrine Øgaard Jensen, p.32-36 and p.67-77