Tag: Music

Why I Still Turn the Record Over

For music lovers of my generation in Bangladesh, those names bring back fond memories. Music then required effort. Albums had to be found, borrowed, bought or recorded, and collections grew slowly.

The Hauntology of Lost Data

This was hauntology made personal -- the past haunting the present -- but my ghosts were .mp3s, glitching in the digital afterlife.

The Paper Trail to Tehran 

It begins, as so many things in modern Iran begin, with a woman and a song