Performance

Monthly Listeners

Current

Followers

Current

Streams

Current

Tracks

Current

Popularity

Current

Top Releases

View All

setar rock

33K streams

330,032

Ground Groove

321.4K streams

321,440

lavender's love

288.5K streams

288,469

wondering dub

265.7K streams

265,737

Mahur Club

186.9K streams

186,910

Push

143.2K streams

143,166

entropy & kindness

49.7K streams

49,745

hope's return

45K streams

44,993

Dark Matter (Maral Remix)

13.9K streams

13,946

Feedback Jam

Biography

Los Angeles’s Maral has spent the past half-decade quietly honing an approach that meshes the latest in club music contortions, a range of pulverized dub effects, and samples from her library of Iranian folk, pop and classical musics. She's collaborated with Lee "Scratch" Perry, Panda Bear and Penny Rimbaud of Crass and remixed artists like Black Dice, Anika, Automatic and more. She has released two critically acclaimed records on Leaving Records. Maral presents, on Ground Groove, a further refinement of the signature “folk club” sound she developed as a live DJ— a sound she would later codify on Mahur Club (2019) and Push (2020). By collecting, dissecting, and re/presenting sonic fragments from Iran, Maral practices a kind of dance-floor ethnomusicology. The subject of her inquiry: Iranian culture and contexts, throughout history and in the present. But, crucially, this inquiry is instantiated within and throughout the body of the listener, whether this listener is dancing in the club, or riding the train, nodding along with headphones on. "At her best, Maral is an alchemist, making disparate samples sing, like Shadow and Dilla before her." - Resident Advisor "A display of righteous fury that's equivalent to warming your hands over a pile of burning passports" - Pitchfork "This is one of those records that invites endless play, revealing new aspects on each spin to close listeners" - Bandcamp