Meet Payam Bavafa, songwriter/guitarist in a San Francisco-based experimental rock band called Sholi. The trio’s most recent EP, “Hejrat,” features an awesome cover of Googoosh’s song by the same name. We asked Bavafa, the group’s sole Iranian-American member, what Persian music means to him, and why he and his bandmates - drummer Jonathon Bafus, bassist Eric Ruud, and keyboardist/percussionist Greg Hagel - decided to cover the Persian pop legend. Here’s what he had to say