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Tracklisting:

"A. Mashayeki" (Retro Records# AM180, 1980)

1-01. Op. 76; An Old Fashioned Symphony For Computer, First Movement (5:20)
1-02. Op. 76; An Old Fashioned Symphony For Computer, Second Movement (4:21)
1-03. Op. 76; An Old Fashioned Symphony For Computer, Third Movement (3:23)
1-04. Op. 76; An Old Fashioned Symphony For Computer, Fourth Movement (7:49)

1-05. Op. 72; Mahur III (9:10)
1-06. Op. 74; Computer Aesthetic (11:14)

"Alireza Mashayeki" (Retro Records# AM280, 1980)

1-07. Op. 80; Ost-West II (11:50)
1-08. Op. 66; Yaad (7:43)

1-09. Op. 75; Saba (9:56)
1-10. Op. 77; Iranian Aesthetic (9:05)

"علیرضا مشایخی = Alireza Maschayeki" (Ahang Rooz #SARLP-513, 1974)

2-01. سنات ويلن شماره ٢ = Violin Sonata II (6:45)
2-02. بداهه شماره ٢ = Ad Libitum II (12:04)

2-03. كسترش شماره ٤ = Development IV (6:48)
2-04. آتونوم شماره ٤ = Autonom IV (6:43)
2-05. موزيك براى سه تنبك = Music For 3 Tonbak (6:39)

2-06. Op. 10; Autonom III (4:17) 1967
2-07. Op. 15; Shur (6:35) 1968
2-08. Op. 24; Development II (5:02) 1970
2-09. Op. 27; Panoptikum 70 (10:50) 1970
2-10. Op. 29; Development III (12:20) 1971

3-01. Op. 30; Abstracion II (6:09) 1971
3-02. Op. 45; East-West (19:09) 1973
3-03. Op. 46; Stratosphere I (10:49) 1973
3-04. Op. 75, No 2; Chahargah I (9:59) 1979
3-05. Op. 81; Happy Electronic Sounds (8:02) 1980
3-06. Op. 91; Polyphony 1982 (11:08) 1982
3-07. Op. 90; Mithra, Op 90 (10:31) 1982

[CP 000.42 CD] Alireza Mashayeki; Complete Retro Recordings +

Creel Pone

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This (originally, the first of the two eponymous Retro LPs on its own; #AM180) was the 42nd of the original "Proto Creel Pone" (P.C.P.) titles assembled ca. 2003, once again extended vastly here in 2025 via the inclusion of the other (impossible to find! It took 15 years; #AM280) eponymous Retro Records title of Synclavier Synthesizer System I/II music, as well as the 1974 Ahang Rooz set of his formative experimental chamber work (incredible!) and, in the spirit of this 20th Anniversary push to find all extant/relevant material, the extra/bonus add-on of the entirety of his apropos un/issued Tape-through-Digital-Workstation "Opuses" at the tail-end of the second disc & the entirety of the third (check the tracklisting down below to your left; this is an epic "Extension" ala the Alwin Nikolais [CP 000.36 CD] set in how a single LP could be fleshed out to almost 4 hours of music!)

Persian composer Alireza Mashayeki has long been something of an inscrutable figure;  nestled deep within Darmstadt-generation of composers, he left Iran in the late 50s to study first at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, then at the Instituut Voor Sonologie in Utrecht w/ Gottfried Michael Koenig. Debuting on the vaunted Philips "Electronic Panorama" set (see [CP 000.10 CD]) his recorded output in the interim has been few & far between, and in fact the LPs covered here form the entirety of his vinyl-era output! Consisting largely of grinding 16-bit synthesis utilizing the nascent NED systems (the very same Jon Appleton - see [CP 046 CD] - et.al were working with simultaneously; essentially the "Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer") these pieces form a palpable link between those early MIT/New England pre-Nyquist algorithms & such contemporary-era software-wreckers as Florian Hecker, Russel Haswell, et.al.

Presenting all available detail of AM180 & AM280 across 5 panels (the s/t Ahang Rooz LP on the 6th, recreated from the Web 0.9 .gifs on file) this is a wonderful replication of this 22-year old love-letter to Mashayeki's conceptual brilliance.