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The Squid's Ear Magazine
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Faghihi, Ghazal

Penumbra

Faghihi, Ghazal: Penumbra (Relative Pitch)

The debut solo album from Iranian, Belgium-based clarinetist and improviser Ghazal Faghihi, a cycle of thirteen fully improvised pieces using clarinets, objects, Shruti box and electro-acoustic and interactive electronics to extend the instrument into fragile sound worlds of breath, resonance, texture and silence, moving through uncertainty in a shadowed space between order and chaos.
 

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Ghazal Faghihi-clarinets, objects, Shruti box, electro acoustic andinteractive electronics

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UPC: 5904224874872

Label: Relative Pitch
Catalog ID: RPRSS051
Squidco Product Code: 37414

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2026
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Sint-Paulus Church, in Ghent, Belgium, in June, 2025, by Christophe Albertijn.
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Ghazal Faghihi is an Iranian, Belgium-based clarinetist and improviser whose work explores the extended sonic possibilities of historical and modern clarinets through free improvisation, electro-acoustic interaction and electronics. Classically trained while deeply engaged with experimental practice, she shapes fragile, searching sound worlds that move between breath, resonance, texture and silence, extending the clarinet into a field of intimate and unpredictable sonic expression.

-Squidco 11/10/2026

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