Taraneh

Kourosh Yaghmaei, Fireplace 10 hours 4K FULL HD, Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, and more.

July 17, 2023

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Taraneh is a New York City-based musician, journalist, and visual artist. She first landed on my radar when I saw her on a totally stacked bill with Evanora Unlimited, Ivy Knight, and Cooper B. Handy (LUCY) earlier this year, and I was blown away by her set. Last week Taraneh and Elusin (who I’ve raved about before) released “Spell”, a witch house cut laced with crunchy guitars and a fat bass line. She’s currently on tour with Evanora and Elusin in Europe, and working on her next album. Taraneh is also a meme-expert and investigative journalist with bylines in NBC News, USA Today, Dazed, and more. Lucky for us, Taraneh is here to tell us what she’s been into.

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Kourosh Yaghmaei

One of my all-time favorite musicians. Pre-revolution Iranian psychedelic rock but also singer-songwriter vibes. Cinematic, confessional, transformative. Some of the most tragic, lush and poetic lyricism I’ve ever encountered. It’s crying music but the kind that you can also play in a car full of people. I recommend “Saraabe Toe,” “Entezar” and “Gole Yakh” to start.

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Fireplace 10 hours 4K FULL HD

One of the best videos on Youtube. I personally like pairing this with 417 Hz healing frequencies (I recommend the “Undoing Situations and Facilitating Change” EP on Apple Music). Very calming and grounding.

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Memetics

Memetics is my beat as a reporter. It’s a study of culture and information sharing that centers memes — the cultural corollary to the gene. It involves internet memes as we know them but goes much further as internet memes are only one kind of meme (albeit the most widely known). Memetics analyzes society at large and how media, trends and ideas travel within various networks. Understand memetics and you understand some major aspects of the human psyche.

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Espand

A wild rue traditionally used in Persian ritualistic and medicinal practices. Burning esfand seeds is an ancient Zoroastrian tradition practiced widely in Persian culture to ward off evil eye. It’s a common ritual in many Iranian households and a series of prayers or “spells” are recited with the burning. The seeds are used in many SWANA cultural traditions outside of Iran as well.

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Snus

The best form of nicotine delivery. I tried it for the first time when I visited my friend in Oslo this summer and I quit smoking and vaping the same day.

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Woodoku

The only game on my phone. It’s very therapeutic and engaging. God speaks to me through Woodoku as I often get angle numbers in my scores when I play.

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Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth

“Our aim is wakefulness, our enemy is dreamless sleep.” I encountered that slogan on Tumblr for the first time when I was 14 and was like ‘Wait, that is also my aim and enemy.’ I love the idea of music and performance leading to organization and directed literature. Not in a scary way but in a spiritual way. Read the Grey Book.

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Talking to yourself

We all have deep inner wisdom and knowledge that ego can at times obstruct. I’ve found that talking to myself really helps circumvent any blockages and allows me to access my intuition more directly. All you have to do is ask yourself out loud what’s on your mind and answer honestly like you’re talking to a trusted friend. I talk to myself frequently and it’s one of the most healing and forward-propelling actions I partake in.

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Viennese Actionism

One of the most visually and conceptually inspiring ‘art movements’ to me. Shocking and grotesque. Stunningly beautiful. Illuminati adjacent. Really strong visual reference that includes body art, performance art, acted violence, gore, ritual and conspiracy all in one. Also very problematic but worth investigating, certainly not for the faint of heart.

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