Music from Iran – Mohsen Namjoo

Mohsen Namjoo born  1976 in Torbat-e Jam, is an Iranian singer-songwriter, author, musician and Setarplayer.

Here is his song “Darda ”

Music from Iran/Sweden – Arash

Arash, born in 1978 in Tehran is an irianian singer who’s living in Sweden since his childhood. Listen to his nice song “Pure Love” featuring Helena Josefsson:

Music from Iran/Sweden – Laleh

Laleh, born in 1982 in Iran, is a swedisch actor and singer. She is very well known for her nice pop and indie folk music and had a huge succes with her album ‘Sjung’. Listen to her song “Some Die Young”:

Also listen to her great song “Vårens Första Dag”, in english “Spring’s First Day”:

Music from Iran – Dariush

Dariush Eghbali, born in 1952, is known as the greatest Iranian pop singers of all time. Listen to his wonderful voice in his great song “Donyaye In Roozaye Man”:

Thanks orientaldrumming for this nice one!

Music from Iran – Googoosh

Googoosh, born in 1951, is a female pop singer from Tehran, also known as Faegheh Atashin. Listen to her nice piece “Baghe Bi Bargi”:

Thanks for this nice suggestion, Orientaldrumming!

Music from Iran/Germany – MC Basstard

MC Basstard, born in 1982 in Teheran, is a german horrorcore and mystic rapper. Listen to his track “Drachen Gift”:

Music from Iran/UK – Leila Arab

Leila Arab, born in 1993, is a iranian electronic musician, now livining in London. Listen to the great song “Underwaters”:

Music from Iran/Armenia – Hossein Alizadeh & Djivan Gasparyan

Hossein Alizadeh  is an Iranian composer, radif-preserver, researcher, teacher, and tar and setar instrumentalist and improviser, described by Allmusic as a leading Iranian classical composer and musician.

Djivan Gasparyan (var. Jivan Gasparyan;born October 12, 1928) is an Armenian musician and composer. He plays the duduk, a double reed woodwind instrument related to the orchestral oboe. Gasparyan is known as the Master of the duduk.

I´ve heard this today , a music proposal of Antje at the network Diaspora , while reading different postings and i was really impressed , thought immediately should share it with you , really a masterpiece of asian music .(Thanks to Antje :-) )

 

Music from Iran – Kourosh Yaghmaie

Kourosh Yaghmaie – known as Kourosh , was one of the first rock musicians of  Iran in the seventies . Here is his song “Sarab ”

Music from Iran- Azam Ali

Azam Ali ( born 1970 in Tehran, Iran) is a singer of Iranian descent living in Canada.Here is her song “Shirin”

Azam has collaborated in her career with many different artists and film composers: Serj Tankian (System Of A Down), Dredg, The Crystal Method, Juno Reactor, Buckethead, the film composer Tyler Bates (currently for the film 300) and Jeff Rona, Kodo and Mickey Hart.