About

Tehran-via-London artist Ashkan Kooshanejad works by breaking down samples into unrecognizable blips of sound, and then layering them up into thickets of melody and rhythm.

I AKA I is Kooshanejad's second album under his Ash Koosha alias, following last year's GUUD. He's a multimedia artist, dabbling in film as well as expressing an interest in virtual reality. "At some point in my life I thought it was good to specialize, but now I think it’s good to build a bigger product than just music," he told Philip Sherburne last year; he's diversified, in other words. But I AKA I is a complex sonic statement, one where sound qua sound is the order of the day. Kooshanejad works by breaking down samples into unrecognizable blips of sound, and then layering them up into thickets of melody and rhythm. There is the sense that any individual noise could be one locus on a larger waveform, any melodic line or rhythmic figure a patchwork of them. - Pitchfork