Amirhossein NazemZadeh

In the summer of 2023, during a trip to Gorgan, we decided to create an audio-visual project at the family garden house of our friend Aria. Soheil narrated this adventure with an old JVC camera, and the audio of this video is from the album of the "Mourners Project". The filming was done on the occasion of a solo live performance in the garden. At the time, we thought it would probably be the last time we would perform in that garden, as a long-term fraud process had led some people to attempt to confiscate the property. Although fortunately, they have not succeeded yet, and perhaps another trip to Gorgan will be an excuse for a new project. In this video, the vintage aesthetic of the Handycam is blended with the personal shots from Aria's camera. Finally, this year, on the occasion of the track "Anger Management," these images were edited together to preserve this memory of that friendly journey during the hot summer days.

The film created for "Tavern of Ruin"(Track from Mourners Project). captures an improvisation born on a Spring’s day from the depths of the terrain, where thought becomes gesture, and image merges with flow. The process of filming and production unfolded two months after the recording of the album—a moment suspended between the trees of Lahijan, where an orangehead flowamidst spectra of rhythms and colors. In a spiraling movement, it shifts from one plane of flow to another—an endless becoming, a spiral voyage through layered terrains of sensation and perception.

This film, in a way, sparked the very first glimmers of the Spiral Spectrum idea. One night of the year 2023, , Amirhossein, feeling unwell, sat at the piano and played something—music that would later be used in the film. Soheil recorded an audio file that night, and the following day, while improvising with an old Panasonic Handycam, he played back the previous evening’s recording. The film you see is essentially a long, continuous one-take shot, captured through that process. During the editing, additional sounds and textures were layered into the musical fabric— including the voice of Maynard James Keenan performing a live rendition of "Simultaneous," and sounds from conversations among astronauts during one of their exploratory missions. In the end, it was after experiencing the final cut a few days later, once the editing was complete, that the essence of the Spiral Spectrum began to take shape in our minds.

In winter 2023, the Spiral Spectrum project began by filming this video. The music was recorded in autumn of that year, and its first name was The Quintessence of Nostalgia. In editing process, the poem (Am Wolkenstieg song by empyrium) was also added to the music. This is a part of that poem translated into English: "Silent, softly floating Yearning to go out, out! Where summits darken and heavy On the cloud path over pale."