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Salim Ghazi Saeedi

g, b, dr, key, *1981
Musician of Rock, Folk and World

Salim Ghazi Saeedi was born in 1981 in Tehran, Iran. Salim started self teaching electric guitar and music production from 1999. Salim has found himself composing in genres like art rock, rock in opposition, progressive metal and jazz-fusion - with tinges of oriental music according to critics. Harmonie Magazine compared his guitar playing to King Crimson's Robert Fripp and labled by Artrock.pl as "Persian King Crimson". He is the producer, composer and performer of all instruments in his instrumental music. He has coined the term "Pictorial Rock" as a description of his compositions which is also the title of his blog: "Pictorial rock" he says "is a term I use for my music that is usually based on series of mental images, a nightmare or maybe dreams of a sound sleep... As a listener, you have to wait for the pictures to materialize in your mind!" However Salim has had little chance to expand his music career in his hometown, he has regularly kept on working. While in Arashk band he released Abrahadabra (2006), Sovereign (2007) and Ustuqus-al-Uss (2008). Afterwards he released Iconophobic (2010), Human Encounter (2011) and namoWoman (2012) as a one-man-band. His albums are concept albums hiring elements of classical and electronic music and progressive rock with diversified use of instruments.

Instruments

• Guitar
• Bass
• Drums
• Keyboards

Genres

• Rock
• Folk
• World

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