Milan-based Persian experimental electronic / avant-pop artist and DJ NAVA (AKA Nava Golchini) returns with details of her debut album GABBEH – out 14^th Nov via Italian label Oyez!. The album comes on the heels of a string of highly praised singles and an EP that have seen her on the receiving end of plaudits from Vogue, i-D, Clash, Rolling Stone, FLAUNT and more, for her visceral and unique blend of western electronics and middle eastern instrumental samples. To mark the new album’s announcement, NAVA has shared a new single titled “Fire”, featuring renowned producer and artist Loraine James.

NAVA cannot return to Tehran, having spoken publicly in support of Iranian women’s rights and against systemic repression. Her new album GABBEH channels the complexities of displacement - nostalgia, resilience, guilt - while amplifying the voices of women in Iran and the Women, Life, Freedom movement, three years on from the uprising that continues to reverberate despite intensified and severe state crackdowns. For NAVA, these realities are not abstract but are woven into her being. Though she cannot return home, her music becomes a vessel for identity, protest, and cultural continuity.

Her collaboration with Loraine James on “Fire” captures these key tenets powerfully, balancing fragility and strength, as well as incorporating real audio from the WLF protests, turning the track into a capsule of collective memory. Speaking on the single, NAVA says “Fire depicts the streets of Tehran during the Women, Life, Freedom protests. As my sisters took on the streets of Iran, writing Fire was the only way to heal my aching homesick heart from afar and the fact that Loraine understood my vision and brought it life was even more precious.”

TRACKLISTING:
1) Poki
2) Lethal
3) September Skies
4) Jadoo
5) Ailse3
6) Fire
7) Concrete
8) Kashan
9) Digiuno

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