• The British-Iranian composer, artist and turntablist Shiva Feshareki is at home in many musical disciplines, embracing every variety of technology and harnessing it, with restless invention, to her own extensive classical training. Her new album Turning World (NMC) features her Aetherworld (2021), recorded live at last year’s BBC Proms. With Feshareki on turntables and electronics, Kit Downes (organ), the BBC Singers and conductor Sofi Jeannin, Aetherworld uses natural harmonics and harmonic overtones to mysterious, hypnotic effect.
The title refers to the “fifth element in alchemical chemistry and early physics”, held to be a key to existence by medieval alchemists and others. Whether you follow all this or not, the sounds are beautiful and bewitching.
