Cinna Peyghamy et Azu Tiwaline

In partnership with GRAME CNCM

On 18 February 2025 we are hosting an exceptional evening organised by GRAME – Centre national de création musicale. In the spotlight is Franco-Iranian artist Cinna Peyghamy, who is forging new links between traditional Persian music, electro-acoustic music and electronic music.
On the programme: his duet with dj-producer Azu Tiwaline, and a performance co-commissioned by GRAME, Zurkhaneh (House of Strength), a tribute to this emblematic place in Iranian culture, a symbol of strength and resistance.

ZURKHANEH (HOUSE OF STRENGTH)Body performance

French premiere of Zurkhaneh (Maison de la Force). Cinna Peyghamy is inspired by the zurkhaneh, the venue for varzesh-e bāstāni, an age-old Iranian sport with moral and heroic values. In movement, he guides the musicians like a morshed (master of ceremonies) to the rhythm of his drum and voice. Echoing his own journey – a life in France, far from an Iran he cannot visit – Cinna Peyghamy composes an ‘ersatz zurkhaneh’, a distorted version reinterpreted through the prism of the Internet, his only window on this ancestral heritage. With its powerful bass, organic rhythms and electronic textures, Zurkhaneh questions the links between cultural heritage and modernity, transforming a personal quest into a universal work.

  • With Cinna Peyghamy, composition, tombak, body performance / Léa Guilbert-Lejeune, double bass, electronics / Léon Haouzi, clarinet, sheng (mouth organ) / Swann Texier, trumpet, electronics
  • Co-commission GRAME and La Muse en circuit, Centres nationaux de création musicale

CINNA PEYGHAMY x AZU TIWALINEElectro-hypnotic trance / Berber-Persian fusion music

At the gateway to the Tunisian desert, Azu Tiwaline delivers a sonic fresco of electronic landscapes textured with traditional Saharan instruments and novel technological devices. Somewhere between ambient, experimental dub and tribal noise, the Franco-Tunisian DJ-producer revisits the ecstatic trances of Berber music, dub culture and techno hypnosis. She teams up with Cinna Peyghamy, an expert in Persian percussion and synthetic modularity. An intensely hypnotic polyrhythmic experience.

  • Cinna Peyghamy and Azu Tiwaline, composition and performance
  • Produced by I.O.T Records

tuesday 18 february 202521h00
Grande Scène
8/10/12€

Cinna Peyghamy

Cinna Peyghamy studied computer music in Paris, Montreal and Saint-Étienne. His interest in electronics and computing led him to create his own sound production tools: glitch software, DIY amplifiers and synthesizers, motor-based mechanical instruments, etc. His first productions explored an electronic style that was both dark and rich in abrasive melodies and fragmented rhythms. Born […]

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Azu Tiwaline

Following the success of her debut album Draw Me A Silence (2020, I.O.T Records), acclaimed by the international press, Franco-Tunisian artist Azu Tiwaline is making a name for herself on stages the world over at prestigious festivals and clubs. Her unique musical identity, nourished by contrasts, draws on the diversity of her cultural roots. That […]

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