BIS

BIS, released in 2015 by Iranian sound artist Sina Shoaie, is not merely an album—it is a meditative requiem for absence. Composed of three long-form tracks, Expectance, H E G E M O N Y O F S L E E P, and See You on the Flip Side, the work unfolds like a ritual for those suspended in the aching stillness of waiting. With a sonic palette that drifts between granular textures, low-frequency resonance, and submerged melodic fragments, Sina crafts a space where time dilates and presence becomes spectral.
Dedicated to those forever waiting—for a letter, a signal, a voice—from loved ones lost or vanished, BIS channels both silence and sorrow. The album is a gesture of empathy, echoing the collective and private grief of uncertain loss. It speaks without language, leaning into the haunting intimacy of absence through intricate sound design and restrained, slow-burning emotional gravity.
Far from conventional ambient music, BIS feels like listening to a memory that never fully arrived—an elegy wrapped in static, distortion, and breath. It is patient, cinematic, and quietly devastating.