Iranian Music (All Kinds)

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My partner has just bought - and loves - Without You, by the all-star package known as "Masters Of Persian Music" (Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Hossein Alizadeh, Kayhan Kalhor, Homayoun Shajarian). This came out in October 2002. There's also a newer album Faryad, which came out in January 2005. The label for both is World Village.

http://www.worldvillagemusic.com/anglais/artistesfiche.php?artist_id=28

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006L3PJ/

European & US tour dates are here:

http://www.worldvillagemusic.com/anglais/agenda.php?artist_id=28

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 1 July 2005 10:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

i like sussan deyhim. i just got the laswll rmx disc of her madman of god record (shy angels) but i really really like the earlier record with wosname...the guy who did the sheltering sky soundtrack. she's also recorded with the on-u people.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 1 July 2005 10:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

It's a Daghe Dagh world.

― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Saturday, 16 July 2005 21:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

I like "Moshkel," but apparently that isn't really from Daghe Dagh after all (although it appears on my Ramesh cassette w/ the Daghe Dagh photo on the cover.

― Yo soy Rockist Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 16 July 2005 22:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0V5XWXINUFEK907BBJD700UA7I

― Yo soy Rockist Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 16 July 2005 22:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Interesting looking stuff here on the Hermes Records label, which seems to be devoted to Iranian music. The samples I heard (on another site) from the Qeshm Island CD revealed a very odd mixture of musical elements.

http://www.hermesrecords.com/Bcat.htm

(It's "World Music" week on ILM. No really, for one thing I just happened to be combing through the most recent Songlines this week.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 13 October 2005 01:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

I tried to order Qeshm Island but I'm not sure if it went through or not.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 13 October 2005 01:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

Okay, finally got a confirmation that my Qeshm Island order will be coming from Dubai within 20 days.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 14 October 2005 10:29 (7 years ago) Permalink

I was set to see 127 last Sunday, didn't happen.

I guess it's basic modern, Sohrab Mohebbi sings in English.
http://127band.com/music.html
I quite liked "Leaving."

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

excuse that, *"Leave"

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

I'm listening to Mohammad Reza Shajarian's Boove Baran and it's great. It sounds like it borrows from European classical music in parts (especially toward the end). There are some choral passages that sound awfully strident and propagandistic, but I still like it.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 02:37 (7 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

Some cool looking new releases on the Hermes label. I'm particularly interested in Tonal Practice by Tehran Experimental Orchestra. (Has Pauline Oliveros secretly infiltrated Iran?)

http://www.hermesrecords.com/

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 1 June 2006 01:38 (6 years ago) Permalink

Where should I start with Shajarian? That Without You thingy seems tempting.

― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Thursday, 1 June 2006 06:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

I've had one album of Sima Bina for years. Amazing stuff. I never bothered checking ther rest of her stuff tho. Anybody knows anything about her?

― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Thursday, 1 June 2006 07:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

I prefer Night Silence Desert to Without You (by a pretty wide margin). Also I have a cassette called "Chahargah" (but that might just be the name of the maqam--do they call them maqams in Iranian music?--rather than a more specific title) that's about as good as Night Silence Desert. I've never seen it on CD though.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 1 June 2006 10:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Yes, this is very short notice, but for those of you in or near Philadelphia, the Dastan Ensemble will be performing at the Free Library of Philadelphia (Central Library, at 1901 Vine Street), at 6PM tonight (11/11/07). $30 admission. This is a fairly prestigious ensemble performing Persian classical music.

http://www.dastan.net/_web/en.html

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 11 November 2007 16:53 (5 years ago) Permalink

wow...I wish I could go to that. their 'endless ocean' album is somewhere slightly beyond wonderful.

― m the g, Sunday, 11 November 2007 18:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

Sadly, I'm not too much in the mood for this concert. I'll probably make a last minute decision one way or another.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 11 November 2007 18:44 (5 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

"Mohammed Reza Shajarian has a new CD out on a western label, Bidad (Injustice)."

Actually this is an new CD of old music (1984 concert according to the disc). It's great.

― Alex in SF, Friday, 17 April 2009 17:44 (4 years ago) Permalink

this is pretty incredible:

alireza mashayekhi / ata ebtekar / the iranian orchestra for new music “ornamental” double long playing record set

http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/artists/ata+ebtekar.html

mashayekhi's pieces for acoustic orchestra, rerecorded to multitrack and completely transformed with filters / ringmod / DSP processing until it's just some kind of beast. the tuning scales are still present and interact really beautifully with the processing, ringmod responds really well when it's given an interval that's actually in tune

it's coming out on CD on sub rosa soon but the vinyl cover is lush

― Milton Parker, Friday, 17 April 2009 18:12 (4 years ago) Permalink

Looks amazing.

― Alex in SF, Friday, 17 April 2009 18:15 (4 years ago) Permalink

It does. (If I manage to get my hands on some money this year, I've got a lot to buy.)

― _Rockist__Scientist_, Friday, 17 April 2009 19:53 (4 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

I don't know anything about Iranian music, but I have been totally obsessed with the Kourosh Yaghmaei compliation, Back from the Brink, released last year on Now Again records. Mostly mournful, soulful, heavy pre revolutionary psych jams with western rock instrumentation.

Now listening to alireza mashayekhi which sounds pretty cool.

― mizzell, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 16:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

Sounds interesting. There's also posts about Iranian music on this
thread:

Arab, Persian, Sufi music

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 17:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

I am curious about Iranian pop singer Gogoosh. Anyone know anything about her? SHe's touring North America now

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 12:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

I watched a number of youtube videos. I think her appeal is probably to a 30 and up age bracket now. I like her voice. The videos from a recent show where she is singing with a flamenco-like guitarist are nice. There's a certain sadness in her tone that outweighs the chart-pop bombast she also ocassionally offers. She's gonna be at DAR Constitution Hall (a fairly big venue) in Washington DC Sat. March 17.

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 14:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

I need to read this thread too:

Dream of an Iranian music revival

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 14:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

googoosh fans are more like 40+

persians in their 30s generally grew up somewhere other than iran and don't listen much to iranian pop

― the late great, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 16:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

as far as iranian pop goes, googoosh is the undisputed #1, kinda like oum kalsoum in egypt or like aretha franklin and diana ross rolled into one

― the late great, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 16:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

that is more a statement about popularity and prominence than quality though

i think she's great but i don't really like much post-revolution iranian (or iranian diaspora) pop, including her stuff post-70s

from what I understand though she does concerts like the stones an does stuff from all eras

― the late great, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 16:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

Thanks

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 16:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

I just found this article that tells her story.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2000/10/29/PK115009.DTL&ao=all

From 1970 to 1979, Googoosh was Iran's top pop star, combining the sophisticated vocal power of a Barbra Streisand with the trendsetting fashion consciousness of a Madonna.

At her height, Googoosh generated the fanatical devotion of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley. Her albums were best-sellers in Central Asia, Turkey, Iraq, Soviet Russia, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. During Tajikistan's first democratic elections, she outpolled many candidates on the strength of write-in ballots cast by disillusioned voters.

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

good article

barbara / madonna / marilyn / elvis are all pretty decent comparisons but even they don't have the sort universal appeal and approval that googoosh has

i have literally never heard one bad thing said about the woman

― the late great, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 18:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/6586

http://www.nowagainrecords.com/they-knew-how-to-rock-in-iran-by-jessica-hundley-published-in-the-la-times-on-sunday-08-21-11/

― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 March 2012 04:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

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