Ahead of her intimate listening session at PHIL, Katayoun speaks about the records that trace Iran’s musical history, the rupture of 1979 and what it means to preserve an archive that carries cultural memory.
On Saturday 3 October, unopened stocks of records arrive in the PHIL foyer. Nobody has seen what's inside- not the diggers, not the staff. You have limited time to dig and no idea what you'll come across until you're flipping through the sleeves yourself.
Some of the best listening you'll do all festival happens flat on your back. On Saturday 3 October, PHIL hosts a special edition of Sonic Journey, a lying-down or seated listening experience that plays out the entire story of house and techno, start to finish, on a proper sound system. The kind of focused, deliberate listening that gets rarer every year.
