Monday, October 13, Saffarian producing Zaman. House of Farhad is being dissolved. House of Farhad is being dissolved due to internal turmoil! So far the indefinite postponing of the long announced Farhad Awards has been blamed on the lack of location, now as the dirty laundry is being aired in Fars News things seem to have a less pleasant explanation.
The family however attempts to establish a new independent House of Farhad, as soon as possible. And postponed! As I personally expected the Chavoshi album which was due out today has been postponed till further notice! Chavoshi who is currently the talk of the press in Tehran, has in recent interviews suggested that competing companies have had a role in ruining his reputation with Ershaad and now aim to get their album-releases coincided with his so that they can sell their products when people visit the record stores to get his album.
Next album however will. It will be less POP and more experimental and avant-garde. The singer and his arranger Ahari also make sure to let us know that Mohsen Namjoo has expressed request to do a collaboration with Chavoshi. The album is currently under production but he is now more careful to give the new material an early exposure, based on the previous experiences that got his albums leaked and his legal career postponed.
The early songs were misunderstood explains Chavoshi and unrightfully got to represent my style and music. He admits that the music was a product of a certain musical wave and trend that brought him and others to the musical foreground back then. While he understand that much of his popularity depends on exactly that misunderstanding, he realises that he has changed and feels more socially-morally responsible.
He cant stand for such an attitude in general and wishes to promote morality and love. He sees those songs as mistakes and would like to put that part of his career behind him, once and for all, according to the interview with 40cheragh. He realises that many have lost their popularity after legalisation but claims that he wont since he is constantly developing.
By taking pictures with him while he is asleep or present themselves as him in public in order to sign autographs. I try to avoid people and media, in past people have exploited my friendship says Chavoshi. Since any other attempt to surpass will fail and fade in comparison. His declining of the invitation to perform at Kish Festival was due to him not being ready to give concerts yet, he says, and not that he is scared of people hearing his real voice. In fact there might be no one who is a more solid live performer than I am, Chavoshi confidently claims!
Finally he informs that he is not willing to give concerts outside Iran, because that might jeopardise his career inside the country. First Iranian album composed by a woman. The first Iranian album composed by a woman is released in Iran!
The album is instrumental and orchestral with parts featuring a choir. Featuring a duest with Andy and a homage to late Pouran Shapouri.
Hubba hubba! Make sure to get this album from our store today, in order to enjoy the Bia2 excluisve tracks! Yazdani explains that the legendary guitarist decided to perform on the album after having heard and approved the song in question.
It should be mentioned that Farzin is one of the few artists, POP artists in particular, to receive a hype and exposure of the new album on states TV! Thanks to Richard. Youth Music Festival Cancelled. The Javan music festival which was held last year for the sixth time, after four years of postponing, will this year be cancelled due to lack of budget.
Ershaad itself is the organizer of this youth festival. Kabiri is worried. Newcomers on the new album. Ehsan Khajehamiri is working on his new album in his home studio. For the first time Afshin Yadollahi plays a smaller role in the production, the major parts have instead been given to newcomers. ICOM opens online music museum. Soon the first Iranian online music museum will be launched by the nongovernmental organization ICOM.
New Sadeghi album on the way. In which Sadeghi himself has composed most of the tracks along with compositions by Mehdi Zangangeh. Sunday, September 14, Coming soon with 20 new tracks! In the new album Benyamin has once again collaborated with Farid Ahmadi as lyricist but replaced Nima Varasteh with Payam Shams as arranger. Benyamin is said to perform his first domestic concert after the release. Rohani and the voice of a Scorpion.
Musicians urge son to leave father. Nikoo Yousefi, researcher and member of the Nations Orchestra in Iran, will as of October be launching www. The website however is to be an interactive encyclopaedia in which all sorts of researches and studies in the field will be submitted. It will also be including historic accounts, interviews, images, lyrics and notes. Namjoo officially apologizes. Namjoo explains that he is still experimenting with religious musicality but neither them nor that three year old recording were planned to be publicly broadcasted.
These are all recorded for my private consideration he says and those who have broadcasted it without his authorization have violated his integrity and privacy. Rumour has that Hamed Fakouri left from the Fakouri band and their former vocalist Salar Aghili right have recorded a traditional Iranian piece for an album produced by Bob Dylan!
Everyday I get a dozen of emails with questions about amateur and underground artists out there in the cyber society! Which song he sings with the other fellow or when his 3rd album of the year is to be released! Music is one of my passions and I also have the privilege to work with it on different levels!
And as the fan that I am I have studied the history and followed the industry closely for decades now, but long gone are those times when new artists appeared once in a blue moon and amateur artists had to first establish themselves online before mass-producing! I believe in its importance for the evolution and natural selection in our music! But it is becoming almost humanly impossible to keep up with it! On all the Mohsens and Pedrams out there, creating future in their basement studios!
At least I love to believe that there is! I however am not! I have tried to keep up but long time ago lost track! Ershaad urges not to promote fake concerts.
According to them many organizers attempt to such campaigns in media in order to put pressure on Ershaad to issue a permit and to rip people off! They even sell out tickets to a fake concert which will never take place, they say. Thanks to Mansour J. Namjoo defending Namjoo. As a response to the accusations against him Mohsen Namjoo has on his official website published a short note in which he explains that this issue has been long solved with the authorities, to whom he had submitted an open letter which was never published.
However he will in near future follow that up in a press release on his website. Therefore the short demo was not intended as a disrespect, on the contrary! While in the studio he decided to replace the lyrics with words of the holy book which he had memorised since childhood. Rappers are associated with Satanism and drug addiction!
He claims that everyday many potential customers visit his store for new releases only to hear him saying that there have been none! And those that do get released are so underwhelming in terms of quality that the customers are put off and sent home to search the internet for good music, he says.
Rumour has that Jahan was seen at Beethoven Music Store in Tehran last year before its bankruptcy, looking for albums of late Banan! And that remakes are to be found on the new album. The trailer for the program depicts Felakat in action:. Departure of a Cultural Guardian. Among many others! In recent years he hosted cultural TV-programs in Los Angeles. May his soul rest in peace! Shahrzad is back with new stories to tell.
A highly by our industry underappreciated talent, unfortunately! Its been years since her last album but now she is back with new independent songs on her myspace. Love it! Shahrzad is also to my knowledge the only Iranian singer who blogs and has recently taken up blogging again after a longer break. In her blog she writes sincerely about herself and things that affect her!
Wednesday, August 20, Tutoring without licence is illegal. Mehran Shiravand from the Office of Growing Artistic-Cultural Educations stated in a press release that all musical institutions and private tutors without a licence from Ershaad break the law each time they offer a lesson, especially behind closed doors! Ershaad: unhealthy Music is a national threat! He said that it has grown beyond a cultural threat to an acute matter of the state!
Holy words to unholy notes! In recent days a low quality recording featuring someone who sounds like Mohsen Namjoo reciting the Quran to the strings of setar has surfaced on the internet and infuriated many rightwing bloggers who have all damned the artist, reported the recording to the authorities while urging all faithful Muslim bloggers to take an active stand against such blasphemy! Organizer accuses Hami of being the pawn of mafia! The organizer however has rejected all accusations in an interview with Fars News Agency and referred to the signed contract where nothing of the kind has been brought up.
New Release: Nima, Mekameh and Mohsen. Time to catch up with recent releases! Thursday, August 07, reported Dubai concert motive rejected! According to ShahabNews. Undergrounders coming up on stage. The advertising of the event started first after the arrival of the guys to Dubai in order to prevent any possible obstacle set forth by the authorities.
Having sold He has conquered most international markets except UK and USA and in own explanation expressed in the Swedish daily Sydsvenskan it is due to the fact that its basically impossible to break through in America by singing in any other language other than English and Spanish. But his music is created to be in Persian he says and even though he would love to break through in the English speaking countries, the dream of one day performing in a fully crowded stadium for his countrymen in Iran tops that!
Shaghayegh and the Jacksons. Yesterday when my girlfriend and I were watching the Peter Andre and Jordan reality show most likely unknown to you guys in US I spotted Tito Jackson and by his side a tall and dark brunette, who not only looked incredibly Iranian but also incredibly familiar. After hearing that my girlfriend also had the same impression I went googling and found out that the woman was no other than our very own Shaghayegh aka Claudia Lynx, reportedly a friend to the Jackson family!
It was pleasing to see that the beautiful teenager we once knew has grown up to be a beautiful woman who elegantly dresses her age! Chavoshi finally legal!!! No Permit for The Yusufs! ARIAN rocked the island! They even invited the sensational bass-player Dara Darayi to boost things up on stage, something which was welcomed by the entire audience. Its interesting that these radical changes were made after Ali Pahlavan recent statement about his urge to record an adult contemporary album filled with slow and romantic ballads!
Can it be yet another sign of a possible solo project for Ali Pahlavan in near future? One controversial interview!
Here is the controversial interview which some have emailed me about. This little clip from VirtuPoint. Tv has in the past days steered up a lot of emotions among the fans of the brothers, who have apparently been offended by the fact that Kamran and Hooman chose to present themselves as Canadians rather than Iranians!
Without the slightest reference to their Iranian origin, neither nationally nor musically! Geographic Algebra in Vienna. Nazeri: imitation is the worst plague. In a press-conference, reflected by Mirase Farhangi News Agency, Shahram Nazeri stated that he regards the ever-growing tradition of imitation and emulation in the Iranian music today as the worst and most worrying cultural plague of the last years! Mohsen Rajabpour, the manager of the ARIAN, said in a press-release that all the concerts of the band during the summer are moved to be preformed in Kish.
No one is willing to provide us with locations so we have moved all out shows to the island. Yeganeh at Kish Summer Festival. Mohsen Yeganeh whose legal debut has in this past couple of weeks become top-selling, fulfilled his second dream last week by opening the 11th annual summer festival of Kish with a sold out concert!
Wednesday, July 16, From boy-band to rock-band! House of Music and its passive members. According to Keyvan Saket, a member of the board of Khaaneye Moosighi House of Music , only few of the registered members of the House of Music have showed interest in participating in the different activities of the cultural foundation, even the participation in the annual election has been underwhelming! Monday, July 14, Mahshar is said to be back in Iran! Romour has that Mahshar, mistakenly known as DJ Maryam, whose leaked songs a few years back caused sensation is now once again back in Iran!
While she, in an interview with BBC Persian a couple of years ago stated that she had fled the country due to restrictions imposed on her and there was even an album released by her in LA!
Mohsen Yeganeh gone legal? Rumour has that Mohsen Yeganeh has finally received a release permit from Ershaad for his legal debut after years of underground activities! A cover has surfaced on the net which indicates a release on Avaye Nakisa. Soltani: Iranians have difficult to collaborate! He argues that the lack of will to compromisation has led to the lack of collaboration which has become a tradition in our culture!
The Orchids to go on tour. The band does not need any permit for their concerts since all winners of the festival were granted a one-year conditional permit! The domestic industry-media liaison. Each quadruple set of strings rests on a movable bridge of hardwood kharak. The bridges are placed so that the strings are divided into three sections, giving the fundamental note and two higher octaves.
There are nine or sometimes 10, 11 and 12 quadruple strings an either side so that, with 18 groups of strings, 27 different notes can be played. The bass strings are of brass or copper and the trebles of steel. Persian santoor is played by striking the strings with two light hammers mezrab held in three fingers of each hand. The ends of the sticks are usually covered with cloth to soften their impact on the strings.
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