NɅGAH is an ongoing collaborative project by Farshad Akbari and Omid Dolatkhah, emerging through a shared interest in ambient, experimental music, and improvisational ways of working.
Rather than being conceived as a predetermined collaboration, the project gradually revealed itself through conversation, listening, and repeated practice. What connected both artists was not only a similar musical language, but a shared way of approaching sound as a process of attention rather than composition.
Working together gradually dissolves the distinction between individual contributions. As the music unfolds, listening becomes inseparable from making, and authorship gives way to a shared perceptual field in which gestures, textures, and sonic decisions emerge collectively.
Each release documents one moment within this ongoing collaborative practice.
Cosmic Smile (2026)
Cosmic Smile is the debut album by NɅGAH, documenting the first stage of an ongoing collaborative practice between Farshad Akbari and Omid Dolatkhah.
Recorded live using analog synthesizers and modular systems, the album emerged through improvisation, attentive listening, and minimal intervention after recording. Rather than following predetermined compositions, each piece gradually unfolded through shared interaction, allowing textures, rhythms, and structures to reveal themselves in real time.
The six pieces collected here reflect a process in which listening and making become inseparable, preserving the immediacy of each performance while remaining impossible to reproduce in exactly the same way.
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