Rituals of the Last Dawn

Saba Alizadeh & Pietro Caramelli

📅 15 March 2026

🕗 20:00

📍Venue: Grounds Rotterdam, Pieter de Hoochweg 125, Coolhaveneiland, Rotterdam

Tickets to be announced soon.

A special pre-album release concert ahead of the official release of Rituals of the Last Dawn (Karlrecords, 2026)

The album will be released on 20 March 2026.

About the Artists

Saba Alizadeh

Born in Tehran and a witness to the fall of the Berlin Wall at the age of six, Saba Alizadeh is a performer, composer, and producer based in the Netherlands. Emerging from Iran’s underground experimental scene, he has developed a singular artistic language that bridges the depth of Persian classical tradition with contemporary sound art.

A virtuoso of the kamancheh, he carries the expressive richness of Iranian classical music while expanding its sonic possibilities. Since 2002, he has toured extensively with diverse ensembles and interdisciplinary projects, appearing on international stages across Europe and beyond. A formative influence was his long collaboration with his father, master composer and virtuoso Hossein Alizadeh, whose mentorship profoundly shaped his musical foundation.

Since 2011, Alizadeh has focused increasingly on composition and production, merging acoustic instrumentation, particularly the Kamancheh, with signal processing, no-input mixer techniques, modular synthesis, and electroacoustic practices. His work moves between modal tradition and electronic abstraction, shaping immersive sound worlds charged with tension, resonance, and suspended time.

Memory lies at the core of his practice. Drawing on archival recordings, often connected to socially and politically charged events, he re-contextualizes historical sound as living material. Rather than treating these fragments as documentary artifacts, he transforms them into resonant textures where personal history and collective silence intersect.

A graduate of the California Institute of the Arts (Experimental Sound Practices), he also investigates “Silence” as a musical and socio-political construct—not as absence, but as a charged space of resistance and introspection that shapes both structure and meaning.

His work has been presented at Flow Festival, TCS Festival (Berlin), Transborders (Austria), and Archipelago at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.

Discography

Scattered Memories (2019, Karlrecords)

I May Never See You Again (2021, 30M Records)

Temple of Hope (2025, 30M Records)

Rituals of the Last Dawn (2026, Karlrecords)

He is the founder of Noise Works, a platform dedicated to experimental and electronic music. His score for The Musician (dir. Reza Riahi), shortlisted for the 94th Academy Awards, won Best Music at Fimucité and Tofuzi Animation Festival (2021). He also received a LOLA nomination from the German Film Academy for his co-composition for Empty Nets (dir. Behrooz Karamizadeh).

Alizadeh’s compositions are often described as raw and cinematic, unfolding like suspended scenes where history and the present vibrate within the same fragile space. Some listeners have subtly associated his immersive sonic language with what they call “Power Ambient,” hinting at the quiet force and emotional gravity beneath his restrained yet expansive sound worlds.

Pietro Caramelli is an Italian-born multi-instrumentalist and producer based in The Hague (NL), active in both songwriting and experimental environments.

While being formed on classical guitar as a child, he later developed a broader way of approaching his instrument(s) by bridging a rigorous musical upbringing with the more visceral languages of post-rock, noise, and folk music. In his artistic career, he had collaborated with both European and extra-European artists and festivals as producer, composer, and performer.