137:. Ayuo and his parents settled in New York City in 1966. Ayuo grew up listening to both the new avant-garde experimental and contemporary music and the psychedelic rock music of the 1960s. He often went to museums, art galleries, and cinemas to see exhibitions of contemporary art and the new cinema. At the same time, he also saw Japanese traditional Noh plays and heard ancient and medieval music from Japan and Europe. All these were to become important influences in Ayuo's music and music-theater pieces. Ayuo's parents divorced in 1969, and Ayuo's mother married an American of Iranian descent, Mansour Malekpour, who came from a family that performed traditional Persian music. This gave Ayuo the opportunity to hear Persian traditional music, which was also to have a lasting influence on his music. Mansour's grandfather, Ali Khan, was recognized as one of the greatest singers of Persian traditional music in the early 20th century, and his voice was regarded as exceptionally unique. He used to sing for the Crown Prince of the Qajar dynasty. With Persian instrumentalists on the ground surrounding the tree, the Crown Prince created a golden cage that hung from a tree, and Ali Khan was singing from inside because he was rumored to be able to sing like a nightingale. Ayuo also grew up listening to American psychedelic rock and British progressive rock while living with his stepfather, Mansoor Malekpour, in New York in the 1960s. He later wrote in his autobiography Outside Society and on his essays and website that the time spent with his stepfather was the happiest and most important influence on his music and musical theater work.
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Much of the biography here is a summary from Ayuo's autobiography first published in
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Ayuo has a unique, distinctive style in his music. He can create music that balances the traditions of world music, improvisation, new age, psychedelic, avant-pop, electronica, and classical composition without losing his distinctive voice in the music he creates. For the first Tzadik CD, he was
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