Take It Easy Hospital is an indie, electronic and pop duo formed in Tehran by Ash Koosha and Negar Shaghaghi.23 Its early biography describes a two-person core joined by a drummer and bassist for performances.3
Recordings
2 releases, oldest first. Select one for its details and sources.
No matches.
Life & work
From Tehran to the screen
The band's early account dates the demo recording of Human Jungle to July 2008 and names Television Blues as the next song.3 Koosha's label biography places the duo after his work with Font and describes its growing audience on Myspace and an invitation to Manchester's In The City festival.2
Koosha and Shaghaghi appeared in No One Knows About Persian Cats. Ninja Tune's biography recounts the film's success at Cannes in 2009 and the musicians' decision to seek asylum while in the UK.2 The duo's later catalogue includes Hidden Spaces, a 2019 single.1
Sources
- 1Hidden Spaces - Single | Apple Music
5 quotes
Listen to Hidden Spaces - Single by Take It Easy Hospital on Apple Music. 2019. 1 Song. Duration: 3 minutes.
https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music113/v4/9f/fa/5a/9ffa5af4-16fd-7e56-88a6-74da4a48ac74/859731704028_cover.jpg/1200x630bb.jpg
2019-03-28
℗ 2019 Realms
Take It Easy Hospital
- 2Ash Koosha | Ninja Tune
2 quotes
On his release—and with Font now in effect shut down—Koosha formed Take It Easy Hospital, a new indie/electronic/pop band, with friend Negar Shaghaghi. They built up a big following on myspace and, off the back of that, were invited to play the In The City Festival in Manchester. The Kurdish-Iranian film director, Bahnman Ghobadi, got in touch around the same time, asking them to collaborate with him on a film about the Iranian underground music scene.
The film, No One Knows About Persian Cats, loosely based on their own experiences, won the Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 2009. But Iran was entering another “destructive” phase, with a new crack-down on music. The band’s drummer was arrested and beaten, and the Iranian-American co-writer of the film, Roxana Saberi, was charged with espionage and sentenced to eight-years in prison. Kooshanejad and Shaghaghi were in the UK playing further dates and decided they had no choice but to stay, seeking asylum.
- 3Take It Easy Hospital | Iranian.com
2 quotes
"Take It easy Hospital" a mainly two piece band ( joined by a drummer and bassist for performances) was formed in Tehran the hometown of the two. The word " take it easy hospital" was derived from the desire to be free from all the hustle and bustle that exists in big cities with all the disturbing sounds and sad people with all sort of problems; "take it easy hospital" is somewhere one can find peace and freedom and "take it easy!"
Their first single DEMO song Human Jungle was recorded in july 2008 and received many positive feed backs from fans that encouraged them to move further in their new music life and resulted in the second song Television blues. The band was influenced by many great artists such as klaxons, Moving units, Joy Devision, Sigur Ros and many more.