Kourosh Yaghmaei — Arayeshe Khorshid (1980)
Yaghmaei renditions of folk songs.
1. Havar havar
2. To bio
3. Rayhan
4. Derneh jan
5. Shekare ahou
6. Mastam mastam
7. Baroun barouneh
8. Sar koye dost
9. Kalat (Music)
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Morteza Redux
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Too Much Melisma
Marzieh, Morteza Mahjubi and Adib Khwansari at Radio Studio, Tehran.
Seated (right to left): Ahmad Ebrāhimi, Bizhān Taraqqi, Hosayn Tehrāni, Parviz Yāhaqqi. Second row: Solaymān Amir-Qāsemi, Farhang Sharif, Zabih Malekpur, Mortazā Mahjubi, Ebrāhim Sahbā, Sādeq Sarmad. Above Mortazā Mahjubi: Nabizādeh (Toyuri).
The Golhā (’Flowers of Persian Song and Music’) comprise 1400 radio programs consisting of approximately 886 [...]
Faramarz Payvar & Ensemble: Classical Music of Iran (1974)
Farmarz Payvar – Santoor
Houshang Zarif – Tar
Rahmatollah Badiyi (Badi’i) – Kamancheh
Mohammad Esmai’li (Esmai’li) – Zarb
Khatereh Parvaneh (who also passed away somewhat recently) – Vocals
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Shohreh — Mix (1992)
Shohreh at her very very best. Nine perfect tracks mixed together to make instant party.
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Pari Zanganeh — The Series of Music for Young Adults (1976) or the Politics of Distribution
The aforementioned re-release of the classic Pari Zanganeh Kanoon recording of folk songs done in classic Pari Zanganeh style. Really amazing songs, really high quality digitization. Favourites: Rashid Khan and Ghad Boland.
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Dariush Dolat-Shahi — Garden of Butterflies (1994)
Squishy, new-agey, avant-garde Persian music with a vaguely “island” twist. Traces of deconstructed folk songs sprinkled throughout (e.g. Mastom Mastom in “Desert Butterflies”). Just download and hear for yourself. It is really something special.
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Older Dolat-Shahi stuff here
Toofan — Sara (1991)
Refined, gherti, repetitive, quasi-kraut-electronic and meticulously produced songs, each with several lives and all from the man who brought us Khodayeh Asemoonha. Most incredible fluke.
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Baba Yaga — Collage (1974)
Nemat Darman
Baba Yaga is the name given to the one-album collaboration between Ingo Werner and Nemat Darman (the previous Baba Yaga album does not feature Darman) with the latter handling percussion, santoor and setar and the former on synth, clavinet and pianos. Collage contains two long spacey kraut tracks, the first of which contains a [...]
Oolanbator — Fire in the Dead of the Night
By far the best track off of the 1382: The Persian New Waves (2004) Iranian punk/industrial/metal vinyl compilation from Tiananmen 89 records (sort of like a more naive sublime frequencies).
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Dariush Dolat-Shahi
Dolat-Shahi studied classical Persian music at the Tehran Conservatory before leaving Iran for the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music and eventually earning a Ph.D from the legendary Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center where he studied under Mario Davidovsky (listen 1 & 2), Vladimir Ussachevsky, Alice Shields amongst others.
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Otashgah: Place of Fire (1986) — Download Here
Electronic Music, Tar [...]