Santoor for a Racing Mind | Persian Instrumental to Slow Your Thoughts

A racing mind doesn't respond to being told to stop. It responds to something slower to follow. The santoor is that — seventy-two strings struck with felt mallets, a sound that moves like water and asks nothing of you. 22 slow pieces from Persia, imagined across one blue-hour night in Isfahan: tiled domes going dark, a garden water channel, the long quiet after midnight. 0:00 The terrace at blue hour 11:39 A garden, a water channel 18:29 The domes go dark 23:05 The tiles lose their colour 27:10 Breath finds its pace 30:21 Under the bridge arches 33:25 Snow-blue and cold 41:10 Something further off 48:04 The mind stops arguing 55:10 Almost nothing at all 1:17:05 The emptiest hour 1:20:28 Before dawn 1:23:29 First light on turquoise Where this was imagined: a rooftop above Isfahan, the hour after the blue goes out of the sky. Composed with AI instruments; curated, sequenced and titled by hand in Dubai. Two new sessions every week — subscribe and stay a while. — curated by Samir · Old Silk Sessions