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I make music, do you know the words?

SalimWorld's Babel Project
SalimWorld's Babel Project

Progressive rock is about innovation and transcending borders… As a musician, I naturally take the burden of the music part; but when it comes to communicating about the music there comes language barriers.

In a non-organic solution, I could hire a multi-lingual localization company to translate all of my website contents to different languages. But boy! I noticed that ideally it is impractical, since for “progressive rock” subject there exist at least 20 rather active languages on the web.

I made “progressive rock” Wikipedia article my reference for finding those 20 languages. Since Wikipedia is itself based on voluntarily collaboration, I think it is a good measure for determining in which languages people speak about a subject on the web.

With this perspective in mind, I decided to start to expand my website’s contents to non-English languages on a collaborative basis. I started a localization wiki project on my website named “SalimWorld’s Babel” at cost of rewarding collaborators with a free CD of Iconophobic album (including free shipping) and a free copy of my upcoming album in 2011!

Yea! I’m trying to climb up the Tower of Babel! Do you know the story of ancient Tower of Babel?

I say a “progressive” musician knows no border… Nor geographically, nor earth-wise… Since the rapture within music cannot be confined by anything concerning “reality”.

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Pictorial Rock

I dream… and dream… and dream…
I live in my world of fantasy.
Walking in this world, I compose as I hear, and rest as I quiet.

Pictorial rock 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!

Some critiques have compared my sound to Univers Zero, Art Zoyd, John Zorn, Patrick O’Hearn, Mike Oldfield, Sufjan Stevens and The Enid. Harmonie Magazine #70 compares my guitar playing with Robert Fripp’s. (View full review list here)

I have composed five albums and critiques call them titles ranging from progressive metal and fusion to avant-garde classical chamber and progressive electronic rock. I prefer to use “Pictorial Rock”.

I was born on Earth, Saturday, July 18, 1981 at UTC 20:50:00 at 35°42’40.08″N 51°24’10.61″E.

This blog is under a subsidiary of my official website, www.salimworld.com

– Salim Ghazi Saeedi