Active from 1992 Record labels Narada World, X DOT 25 | Genre World | |
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Albums Niya Yesh, Beyond Denial, Unfolding Members Loga Ramin Torkian, Mamak Khadem Similar Niyaz, Vas, Azam Ali, Pejman Hadadi, Carmen Rizzo | ||
Axiom of Choice is a southern California (United States) based world music group of Iranian émigrés who perform a fusion style incorporating Persian classical music and modern Western musical concepts.
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History
Led by Loga Ramin Torkian, who plays a variant of a guitar of his own invention that is fretted to play quarter tones, the band has a sound combining soaring female vocals, Middle-Eastern rhythms and melodies, and progressive Western production styles.
The band was named after the mathematical concept, the axiom of choice.
The melodies and rhythms of Persia's radif tradition are mixed with Western music. Led by Persia-born nylon-string classical guitar, quarter-tone guitar, and tarbass player and musical director Loga Ramin Torkian, the septet incorporates a global range of influences into its sound. Axiom of Choice remains rooted in the musical heritage of Torkian and fellow Persian émigrés Mamak Khadem and Pejman Hadadi. While Khadem's singing in the Persian language retains the spirit of the past, the playing of Hadadi, one of the leading Persian percussionists living in the United States, gives the group its flavor. Hadadi—who plays daf, tombak, and nagada—previously toured with Hossein Alizadeh, Kayhan Kalhor, and Shahram Nazeri. He continues to be involved with Axiom of Choice and with the Dastan ensemble.
Discography
Songs
Color of DreamsUnfolding · 2002
Mystics and FoolsUnfolding · 2002
A Walk by the LakeNiya Yesh · 2000