Once again, Parjam Parsi hits us with his emotionally moving and artistic combination of both a story and a musical album…this time it’s through his album “Season of Amnesia”…Parjam’s signature emotional storytelling is back again with another story that he wrote in 2018.
The story goes like this…as Parjam described…
…after she left, a few days later, I awoke from a troubled dream to find myself turned into a mirror. With a slight cold feeling on my back, I could see red in the middle of my body…I shouted helplessly “What’s happened to me? The mirror thought…it wasn’t a dream anymore…the mirror was in a hotel room.
The room was a proper small room. In the corner of the room beside the window, a man sat on an old piece of furniture with a gun and a recorder in his hand…he sat upright…an old scarf was on his knee, and the mirror man closed his eyes for a moment…heard a gunshot…then looked out the window, rain hit the window…” what if I sleep a little longer and forget all this dark?”…
This story is spread onto “Season of Amnesia”’s 14 tracks…taking its time to develop the emotional side of the story through Parjam’s music.
The album has Parjam’s signature compositional style…the orchestration, the epic moments, the subtle moments, the iconic piano melodies, and the arpeggios.
…it starts with “Years or Days”…
A fitting start to Parjam’s story…the strings take us in until the piano unleashes its melodic sequence halfway into the song, then it’s flipped on its head, and the piano becomes aggressive and shows some bite…
This album also has some good examples of emotional variety…for example, ”Five Letters” takes us into a very dark and melancholic mood…
…another excellent example is “Farewell”…this track picks us up and takes us into a feel-good mood that by that time in the album, you’d feel like you need some hope to hang onto…and that is exactly what this track is, it’s hope…
A change of mood happens once again when you reach “A Sense of Reconnection”…a very relaxing piano-centric track that feels more like a meditative experience than the other storytelling ones…it has some kind of relaxing and healing energy to it.
Near the end of the album you can experience “Dod”, a track that has a very strong sense of conversation…it might even be the master scene of Parjam’s story…that is how I am interpreting it…
…finally, when you’re at the end of the journey, you arrive at “Which Path To Take”…
Parjam ends his musical journey in “Season of Amnesia” with this hopeful track…he leaves us with positive vibes.
Parjam continues to solidify his place among composers who create a cinematic experience with their works…pushing boundaries and telling unique stories.
We wish Parjam all the best in his professional and personal lives, he’s creating hypnotic cinematic experiences with a meditative side to them, something we all need, especially right now. Cheers!
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