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Friday, July 7, 2006

RadioDarvish.com: streaming traditional music from Iran

I listen to a lot of different stuff while I work -- ambient electronica, classical, mostly non-vocal stuff that stimulates neurons gently without demanding full frontal lobe action. Lately, what I've kept on most is RadioDarvish.com. Traditional Persian music. And here's the story about the man for whom it's named. I think I stumbled on it by accident. I'd never really listened to much music from this part of the world, and know very little about Persian culture. But it's a wonderful stream.

Here's the playlist, and here's a traditional Persian music school linked to from Radio Darvish website. Afshin Toloee, the fellow who runs the radio stream, welcomes sponsors and invites listeners to support via PayPal. "Your donation helps paying for connectivity, content, and equipment cost."

An aside: isn't it interesting how music sung in languages you don't understand doesn't demand the same kind of attention from your brain as vocal music in a language you do understand? I don't speak the language here, so my brain isn't trying to sort out meaning when I listen to this stream and it's comfortably ambient work-drone.
Reader comment: Sassan says,

Hi, I'm a Persian and I read your post on traditional persian music and I thought that you might enjoy my fave artist in this genre and it's Shajarian.
Here is his show, on youtube: Video link. There are 6 parts to it and I have uploaded it, I hope you enjoy them. Thank you for your intrest :) , you put a smile on my face for actually caring about my culture.
By the way the young kid who's singing is his son, his name is Homayoun. Shajarian has two wives I think and he's loved by many around the world for his style of music. He uses poetry by the great persian poet Hafez, and Saadi, who is considred the Shakespeare of Iran or Persian Culture in general. iranchamber.com is a good site to check if you're interested in Iranian culture in general, more links here.

videos of Mohammad Reza Shajarian performing live: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

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