"Play It Like It's Music" by Trevor Exter
Play It Like It's Music
"Try not to have any shame about what you do"
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"Try not to have any shame about what you do"

068: Yousef Bassirpour

Good morning! This is Play It Like It’s Music. I’m Trevor, thanks for listening.

On Wednesday, December 16th of 2020 Music is not content. It’s connection.

Yousef Bassirpour is working under the name Big Blind, and the music is heavy, spacious and beautiful. He’s a fixture on the Atwater scene here in LA.

Big Blind is an Industrial / Post-Rock project that draws influence from traditional Middle Eastern music. The lyrics are mostly English and occasionally Farsi.

photo by Joshua Levy

I listen to this guy and I’m hearing a clear voice, sonorous arrangements, deep feeling and melodies that bring me to a variety of different places.

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Without further ado, here’s Yousef.

It’s an honor to have him on the show.

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Thanks for listening to Play It Like It’s Music. Thanks so much to Yousef Bassirpour for spending some very generous time with us. You can find the Bid Blind album on Spotify and follow him on IG @big_blind_.

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We're all contending with a mutating professional landscape, jacked revenue streams, a catastrophic global pandemic and plenty of other noise out here.

But you gotta keep playing:

We don't draw any lines here between scenes or styles.

As always, thank you for listening and remember to play it like its music.

You can check out my music on bandcamp and other places. It’s all at my website, trevorexter.com. Sign the mailing list on substack to get this show sent right to you the very moment it comes out.

Music is a beautiful thing and it makes the world go round.

Big love to your ears.

Trevor

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"Play It Like It's Music" by Trevor Exter
Play It Like It's Music
Purists may whine that the best days of music are behind us, that capital “M” music has seen its peak and is no longer relevant. But here at Play It Like It's Music we believe the opposite: not only is the act of musicmaking an essential life skill with a lineage stretching back to the beginnings of human history, but the vocation of the professional musician is more vital today than it ever has been. Once a month, join musician, songwriter and producer Trevor Exter as he drops in on working musicians from every genre.