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ABOUT AZAR SWAN:
Azar Swan began in 2012 when the core members of Religious to Damn, Zohra Atash and Joshua Strawn, chose to reframe their collaboration. Religious to Damn relished in the strange results of collaborating with multiple, often virtuoso musicians to produce deceptively straightforward dream pop. Joined by members of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and His Name is Alive, they created what The Village Voice called, “a mix of desert strum, hypnotic pulse, spirited-away synths, Lynchian weirdness, and Fleetwood Maximalism.” Azar Swan opted for a similarly eclectic collision, this time pared down to just Atash and Strawn, embracing their lifelong love of electronic music. 

 Azar Swan’s first two albums, 2013’s Dance Before The War and 2014’s And Blow Us a Kiss were exercises in finding out what might happen when hip hop’s increasingly industrial use of heavy drum samples and distorted synthesizers met with grandiose melodic tribalism and the get-up-and-dance of freestyle. A remix by Coil’s Drew McDowall led to his appearance on the song “Mouth of the Sky.” Bookings alongside Cut Hands (former Whitehouse provocateur William Bennett) and Prurient were followed by 2015’s remix collaboration Variations featuring intense re-imaginings of “We Hunger” by Vatican Shadow and “For Last And Forever” by Cut Hands. 

 Whereas experimental artists often belatedly decide to delve into “pop,” Azar Swan’s trajectory has gone in reverse, resembling artists like Talk Talk for which the more accessible records are a prelude to increasingly strange compositions and uncomfortably raw emotions. Atash says the latest album Savage Exile, released December 1st on the Berlin label aufnahme+wiedergabe “is a beautiful purging of anger.” Produced with the help of Hospital Productions and Prurient right hand man Kris Lapke, NPR remarked on Savage Exile's "gossamer synths that almost choke the atmosphere" while Noisey called the album "properly terrifying.”

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