Peyman Salimi - Live in Toronto - Dastgâmachine (opening act)

Adelaide Hall

Friday June 13th, Doors 8pm

Tickets: $15 Early Bird/ $30 General/Door $40

Address:  250 Adelaide Street West

https://admitone.com/events/peyman-salimi-toronto-10006262Peyman Salimi Music

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Peyman Salimi and Zoe Guigueno play Toronto on June 13 at Adelaide Hall, joined by drummer Stefan Hegerat. With a bag of new songs, their set moves between quiet, stripped-down moments and upbeat, groove-heavy songs—mixing guitar, bass, synths, and vocals in Persian and English. They’ll be playing Peyman’s older songs like Shab and Raj alongside brand new, unreleased material. Opening the night is Dastāmachine, the new project from Mahmood Schricker and Klager Nronlichter.

Born in Iran and shaped by years in Italy, Peyman Salimi’s music reflects a life lived across different cultures. Now based in New York and pursuing research on multilingual songwriting at Georgia Tech, he writes songs that carry traces of identity, movement, and change.

 Zoe Guigueno (GIG-an-oh) is a New York-based bassist and songwriter with a background in jazz, folk, and indie rock. Known for her clear, direct writing style and restless energy, she has toured internationally, performed on Broadway, and worked with artists like the Mountain Goats and Snarky Puppy.

Dastgâmachine (Mahmood Schricker, Caleb Klager, and Jason Rule) embrace a legible and unique form of psychedelia, incorporating the sounds and production techniques of dub, techno, and musique concrete into the Dastgâ system of arranging classical Persian art music. The three come from disparate scenes and sound worlds: Mahmood (on setar) from a traditional composition background, with years of performance and soundtrack experience; Caleb (on electronics) having gone from studying jazz composition to creating full throttle techno alongside performing in jazz ensembles and live at MUTEK; and Jason (on turntables) having experience with computer music ensembles and over 15 years of radio and club DJing under their belt in multiple countries.

They honed their sound through their riotous monthly “Infinite Jest” residency at Tapestry, giving a platform for alternative musicians from the diaspora in Toronto in the middle of one of the last holdout neighbourhoods not completely subsumed by condos and placeless architecture. Shows at the Aga Khan Museum, Revival, and TD Music Hall exposed more formal audiences to experimental works not frequently heard in that calibre of venue.

Their debut self-titled EP of live excerpts from Tapestry will be released in February 2025 through Mahmood’s label Link Music Lab, founded to explore the intersections and avenues within Persian and Western composition. Link’s live nights present musicians at the forefront of electronics, jazz, and the classical musics of Iran and Europe, while club nights focus on the artists less focused on algorithms and zeitgeists over long-term visions – legacy artists (A Guy Called Gerald, The Tiger Lillies, Rana Farhan, Vladimir Ivkovic) and younger innovators alike (Elena Colombi, Korea Town Acid, Sepehr).