Ay Ay .......

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Ay Ay .......
by capt_ayhab
01-Jun-2009
 

On his own words:

It's difficult to talk about oneself especially when it is easy to be misinterpreted and the misinterpretation can be widely spread through contemporary communication tools. In fact it seems that there is no one who wants to listen to you talking about yourself. We have also learned that the interpretations of the audience about one’s art work are not less valuable as than the intention of the author him/herself.

So, I make it short. I was born in year 1976 in Torbate-Jam and started to study Iranian classical traditional singing with Nassrollah Nasseh- Pour at the age of 12 and this process continued until I was 18. I was able to pursue higher education when I was accepted at Tehran University to study theatre and music. I decided to join the theatre course instead of waiting a year for the music course to begin. At that time I was ready and excited to learn, experiment and move forward. But it was not what I expected because I was disappointed by the teaching system at Tehran University. I had decided to study music instead because of my love for music. In the end I had to stop studying music because of my love for music.

Just like every musician, my dream was to find a place in the professional field of music. Finally and after years of catastrophe, it’s only been for a few years that music has become my ONLY profession. My works (over 100 pieces) are the result of nearly 18 years of engagement with music. The source of this music and poems is the immense Iranian culture and history. These pieces of music and lyrics refer to, and find their meanings from Iranian culture which consists of four hundred years of battle between modernity and tradition.

Whenever I've wanted to laugh at the contradictions in my society I use the laughter and playfulness of the blues scale and its singing style. I blend it with the Iranian scale and singing style. Then whenever I’ve wanted to cry and express my sadness I direct the Iranian singing style towards blues or find refuge in reciting poems. In one of my poems written in 2003 I say:

**Haft savare karand bar labe arvand, har yek bashad Nedaye az manaye man

har yek bashad sedayee az nanay man, sonnato tajdeed rahekhish nemoodand

oh, marde jan be lab reseede ra che namand...

As I said at the beginning talking about oneself is a difficult task, So I’m not sure at all if I’ve told you what I should.

**Seven horse riders, my mum, Tradition and modernism showed their ways

Mohsen Namjoo

Source: //www.mohsennamjoo.at/namjoo.html

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Nice song

by Abarmard on

I get in and out of this kind of music. Lyrics are joy to listen to.

Thanks Capt


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Please please Namjoo: percussion

by sima on

It breaks my heart to hear such awful percussion in Namjoo's music. Maybe he can at least borrow the 127 rhythm section every once in a while?


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Dear capt_ayhab:

by LalehGillani on

I am so hooked on both of these songs. Off to itunes I go to download them into my ipod. I rarely buy a CD anymore because out a whole CD, I often end up with only one or max two songs that I really enjoy.


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Ms. Nasrin

by capt_ayhab on

Thanks for beautiful comment and the points about the original Yarom Bia.

I am quite familiar with Shirazi traditions and customs since I have been married to a Shirazi beauty for over 30 years now.

You are absolutely correct, the Original will always stand unabated. Namjoo   truly is a genius in the realm of music, I do have their entire Kiosk CD however I do not know how to post them here. I guess I need to contact JJ regarding this.

Regards

-YT


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Great music...

by KHAR777 (not verified) on

Yet awesome humanity. This is the first time I heard Yarom Bia by Namjoo I listen to it time after time again and again. Thanks Captain for sharing!


Nasrin Sasanpour

Hey Captain,  This,

by Nasrin Sasanpour on

Hey Captain,

 This, "Yarom Bia" is a traditional Shirazi folk song, one of the ones song in the famous gardens of shiraz when the whole family & friends gathered for a day of celebrating life.  Beautiful voices, enthusiastic chorus, and the mastery of instruments together with the air fragrant with roses and sweet zest for living and let live created memories transcending generations.

This is an avant garde rendition of the song, no less done by the creative Kiosk and that music genius of our times, my favorite musician in recent history, Namjoo. 

Still, the original stands unabated.

Thanks for sharing.


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-YT