Were I, by Tar Of

Were I

by Tar Of

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1.	Maryam 03:51	buy track
2.	Oughta Be 03:26	buy track
3.	Leisure 02:21	buy track
4.	Were I 03:43	buy track

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Tar Of is the art-rock project of New York-based artists Ariyan Basu and Ramin Rahni. They both hate the Sun.

Were I is an EP about being and becoming, as well as the tension between what one ought to be and what one is. Sonically this tension takes shape as a genre exercise in uneasy listening, a kind of adult-contemporary-classical: art-rock movements flecked with makeshift orchestral instrumentation.

"Maryam" examines familial expectation through the lens of Islamic symbolism and Mideast birthing rituals. "Oughta Be" imagines the residual feelings that linger after seeing someone in a dream as a kind of haunting. "Leisure" finds comfort in mantric repetition and refusal of work...the utopian demand as both a perspective and a provocation. And "Were I" is a song about mud. Mud as creation myth, mud as cleansing, mud as catastrophe.

With a throughline of shambolic strings, reeds, and woodwind, the Were I EP harkens to Portsmouth Sinfonia style performance art, and is a further exploration of the balance between levity and gravity that the duo started with their 2020 album, Instant Light.

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released November 5, 2021

mastered by Andy Clarke

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Tar Of Brooklyn, New York

just fine art

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Confidence Freaks Me Out

Oct 2023
Were I

Nov 2021
Instant Light

Sep 2020
Instance

Oct 2020
Shock Of White (Single)

Sep 2020
Blacklung (Single)

Sep 2020
Fana

Oct 2018
Um

Aug 2017

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