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Deep Siesta on the longlist for the German Record Prize
The CD recording of Amen Feizabadi’s chamber opera »Deep Siesta«, featuring the Neue Vocalsolisten and the Zafraan Ensemble, has made it onto the longlist for the German Record Prize’s Best of 4/2026 in the ‘Contemporary Music’ category.
With »Deep Siesta«, Amen Feizabadi ventures a radical shift in perspective on the ubiquitous discourse surrounding artificial intelligence: we experience human existence from the AI’s point of view. Through the eyes of the protagonists, we look as though through a prism, in which our own reflection is shattered into its myriad components and appears alien and shadowy to us.
In the 85-minute work »Deep Siesta«, the focus is on acoustic music. However, the boundary between reality and virtuality becomes increasingly blurred by AI-generated voices, images and electronic sound effects.
Dilek Mayatürk’s libretto, too, enters into a dialogue with the aimless AI. From initial fragments of words through to more complex linguistic connections, it leads to an emotional climax in the shift from German to Persian. This is interwoven with the evocative elements of traditional Persian music, in an attempt at universal reinvention.
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Release 2026
151 critics on the judging panel have nominated a total of 240 new releases from the last quarter across 32 categories, all of which are in the running for the next German Record Prize shortlist.
The 4/2026 shortlist will be published on 16 November 2026!