Salim Ghazi Saeedi () ( fa, سلیم قاضی‌سعیدی, also Romanized as ''Salim Ghāzi Saeedi'' and ''Salim Ghāzi-Saeedi''; born 1981) is an Iranian composer and guitarist who plays a variety of genres ranging from progressive metal,

jazz fusion Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, ...

, avant-garde classical chamber, progressive surf, progressive rock, RIO ( Rock in Opposition), to

art rock Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements. Art rock aspires to elevate rock from entertainment to an art ...

with a minimalist approach.

Biography

Saeedi was born in 1981 in Tehran, Iran. He began teaching himself to play guitar in 1999. He has composed three albums with the band Arashk: ''Abrahadabra'' (2006), ''Sovereign'' (2007), and ''Ustuqus-al-Uss'' (2008). He subsequently released the solo albums ''Iconophobic'' (2010), ''Human Encounter'' (2011), and ''namoWoman'' (2012). The albums were entirely self-produced, with Saeedi laying down guitar and keyboards, drum arrangements, and mixing. On namoWoman, he incorporates Persian microtonal music influences. Some critics have compared his sound to Univers Zero,

Art Zoyd Art Zoyd is a French band formed in 1969, mixing free jazz, progressive rock and avant-garde electronica. Gérard Hourbette was the band's director and composer until his death in May 2018. Another key member of the band was Thierry Zaboitzeff, w ...

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Patrick O'Hearn Patrick John O'Hearn (born September 6, 1954) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and recording artist. Known primarily as a bass guitarist and keyboardist, O'Hearn came to prominence with Frank Zappa and co-founded the early 1980s ...

, Mike Oldfield, Djam Karet, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, David Bedford, Richard Pinhas, ZNR, Mecano,

Present The present (or here'' and ''now) is the time that is associated with the events perception, perceived directly and in the first time, not as a recollection (perceived more than once) or a speculation (predicted, hypothesis, uncertain). It is ...

, Aranis, the entire Belgian

chamber rock Chamber pop (or Chamber rock; also called baroque pop and sometimes conflated with orchestral pop or symphonic pop) is a music genre that combines rock music with the intricate use of strings, horns, piano, and vocal harmonies, and other compon ...

scene, Dick Dale, Anne Dudley, Jaz Coleman, and

X-Legged Sally X-Legged Sally (XLS) is a Belgian avant-garde rock/jazz-band founded in 1988 by composer Peter Vermeersch, and disbanded in 1997. They were one of the first bands from Belgium to combine a set of very different musical styles (jazz, rock, improvis ...

. Some progressive rock publications have also compared his music to King Crimson and Robert Fripp.Gary Hill
Human Encounter Review
Music Street Journal, Issue 85, Dec 2011.

Discography

Solo * ''Iconophobic'' (2010) * ''Human Encounter'' (2011) * ''namoWoman'' (2012) * ''United Ubiquity of Flesh'' (2017) with Arashk * ''Abrahadabra'' (2006) * ''Sovereign'' (2007) * ''Ustuqus-al-Uss'' (2008) * ''Yell'' (2008) Collaborations * "When There Is More Beauty in the Contrary" –

Negar Bouban Negar Bouban (Persian language, Persian: نگار بوبان, also transliterated as Negâr Boubân or Negar Buban) (born Tehran, Iran, 1973) is an Iranian oud and barbat (lute), barbat player and student of Mansour Nariman, best known for pla ...

& Salim Ghazi Saeedi (2011)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ghazi Saeedi, Salim Progressive rock guitarists Jazz fusion musicians Art rock musicians Progressive metal guitarists Iranian composers Rock in Opposition Minimalist composers Iranian guitarists Lead guitarists 1981 births Living people Musicians from Tehran Microtonal musicians 21st-century guitarists