On Music for Tombak & Synth, Paris-based Iranian musician Cinna Peyghamy transforms a technical experiment into something deeply personal. What began as research into contact microphones and live improvisation gradually evolved into a meditation on exile, double identity, and inherited memory. The dialogue between the Persian tombak and modular synthesis — “a piece of wood and skin” confronting a hyper-technological electronic system — becomes both sonic method and autobiographical metaphor.
The album’s greatest strength lies in the extra- ordinary physicality of its sound design. Peyghamy gives space to every resonance, allowing intricate rhythmic patterns, modular modulation, and acoustic textures to breathe and…

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