“It’s not every day that an indie rock singer becomes a figure of geopolitics, but that’s what happened when Ashkan Kooshanejad and his band Take It Easy Hospital were featured in the Cannes Special Jury Prize-winning documentary No One Knows About Persian Cats. While playing underground rock concerts had already attracted a police presence in Kooshanejad’s hometown of Tehran (and landed him in prison for three weeks), after the film was smuggled out of the country to international acclaim, Kooshanejad and bandmate Negar Shaghaghi became “persons of interest” and sought asylum while on tour in the U.K. Now he’s focused on his uncompromising, dizzying and dense electronic album, I AKA I, which will be released by Ninja Tune in April.” — via Rolling Stone
Read the rest of the Rolling Stone feature HERE, and listen to “Mudafossil” below!