Misc

Mastan Concert in Seattle? When?

Any1 knows when they are playing in Seattle? Please respond

Mastan DVD

Dear Aida,
you can also buy it directly from www.csiarts.com

//www.csiarts.com/mastand-dvd.php

Farid

Thank you so very much Farid.
I love to have this DVD and didn't know where I could buy it.

I am so glad to see all

I am so glad to see all these comments .They are a revolution in our music . I am so suprised to see after shajarian with different style some one(a group)raised up and say hey we are still live and grow inspite all difficulites.
This is their performance in Toronto for sure it was difficult for the recorder but thanks whoever did it.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYdFNbw2W6U

Mastan Concert

Aida,

here it is:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MbElcycq3I

Gorooh-e Matan-Washingto, DC concert

Hi Aida,
Do you know that their Niavaran Concert in now available on www.amazon.com ,
key search: doozakhian
also check the latest part of their DC concert "Modara Kon" on youtube

Farid

Homay & Mastan Live Performance Toronto

Come and see their Magic at Roy Thomson Hall

Firday November 14th at 8:00 PM

Tickets are available at www.roythomsonhall.com

Thank you

Hi Farid,

Thank you for your beautiful comment about Gorooh e Mastan. You discrib them exactly the way they are. Every iranian should be proud of this young group.
Parvardgare Iranzamin negahdareshan baad.

Sincerely

Aida

Gorooh-e Matan-Washingto, DC concert

For those who want to know, here is the announcement
for DC concert

MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
JULY 20, 2008 AT 7:00 PM

5301 Tuckerman Lane
North Bethesda, Md
20852

LIVE CONCERT BY HOMAY AND THE MASTAN GROUP
TICKETS: WWW.MASTERTICKET.COM
WWW.STRATHMORE.ORG
(301) 581-5100 & 5200

Mastan Ensemble's Concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall, July 3rd

For those of you who enjoyed Mastan's music, please come and see them live on July 3rd. Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com

And they will be performing in SF, DC and SD during the month of July. Dates and venues TBA!

Cheers..

gorooh e mastan

I think Grooh -e Mastan is best thing has happened to Iranian music after Farabi and Aref-e Ghazvini so far. We should all be proud of these young and innovative musicians, poets, and contemporary philosophers. Iranian traditional music will change for ever because of them especially the leader, Homay (Saied Jafarzadeh). God bless him and keep him for Iran

Conductor of Qom's Aphtabeharmonic Orchestra

The members of this musical group produce interesting sound by goozing into the top opening of Aphtabeh and Doolcheh.
These two musical instruments date back to the era where science in the Islamic culture peaked!
This ensemble has performed before large audiences and key elite members of the Islamic Republic societies.
Amongst the notables are Ayatollahs Khayehmani and Rasmankani as well as dignitaries such as president Obne'enejad, etc.

Due to huge popularity, this group has been scheduled to perform in major performance art centers around the world during 2008!

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Beautiful but not entirely "traditional" (which is not bad!)

The piece is beautiful but not entirely "Iranian" traditional music. It is very much inspired by Indian music, which I guess is fashionable in Iran these days.

I really don't understand all the "anti-Islam" comments here. Ok, you are upset about the Islamic revolution. What it has to do with the piece here? Those pajamas you are so pissed off about can be seen in many pre-Islamic Sassanid reliefs too. Check this one as an example:
//www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/ugp/relief01.j...

...and those long hairs and beards, those so-called "Arab costume" (Abaa and shawl), those long dress and those hats are all as old as Persepolis:
//employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/Images/...

Not everything you don't like began 1400 years ago in Arabian peninsula. Unfortunately the less people know about the Iranian history the more they talk about it here. There are ugly comments in Iranian.com, that are nothing but "fohsh-khaar-maadar", but to me the worst are the chauvinist ones. Nothing is more disgusting than Nazi-style nationalism.

One look at these musicians and their outfits

conjures up images of members of the Al-Qaeda right after September 11, 2001.

Wrong again

I understand that you are upset with the failure of your ideologies during the revolution that caused you to flee Iran and come in the west and hold a grudge against this event. However bashing Iranian culture is not going to help you. First of all although I am not a religious person, I find it my duty as an Iranian to inform you of our nations history and give some examples of Iran's scientific achievements AFTER Islam. If you are literate and can read, then you can check this and find out that Ibn Sina, Kharazmi, Khayam, Raazi, Abureihane Birouni, and many many more of our great mathematicians and scientists came to be AFTER the introduction of Islam. This is not to say the Arabs and their brutal invasion of Iran, gave Iranians the gift of science, since they themselves were unfamiliar even with most basic scientific knowledge. But it is a historic fact that in pre-Islamic Iran, society was divided into classes by the ruling system and another form of religious governance (the Sasanids and the influence of Zoroastrian Mobeds) and only members of the upper class were given permission for education.

To give you an example of how science was used with music actually in the same timeframe as you mentioned (around 1650 AD) you should visit Ali Ghapoo's music room in Isfahan, where decorative carvings in the walls and the ceiling make music flow through the different rooms in perfect acoustics. Also, the so called scintific instruments of the west as you mentioned would not have existed if the westerners would not have been introduced to the classical eastern and Persian instruments such as Tar, and Kamanche. So instead of bashing your country and culture, do more research and try not to blame all your problems and the problems of your country on a political event.

hey Zero

Traditional music, Classical music
Music as an art form
Badbakht since when you became a music authority
Take your head off your ass, enjoy beautiful things in life may be you so badbakht that you can't even learn it.
This is very beautiful
Thank you for sharing

Traditional Iranian Music

I am wondering how many of these folks who consider traditional music backward or pro-Islamic have been to Australia, Japan, Brasil, Italy, Greece, USA, Mexico, Chili, Finland, Egypt, France, Irland, India, China, Germany, Peru, etc., etc., etc.
And if they have been, how many of them have attended cultural musical performances. Because if they did, they would realize that every nation on this earth has its own traditional music. It is not only Iran folks.

I agree with 14u! Iran/ian music much like the rest of that

culture has been stuck in 700 AD. Music in a culture evolves along side the science, mathematics, literature, art, and language of that culture!? Look at Europe during the period of 1650 - 1900 where classical music, classical composers, and musical instruments were perfected along side mathematics and physics among other things! Unlike Daryeh O Donback, kamooncheh, Jegh Jegh-ak, and the rest of the Iranian musical contraptions, the Western musical instruments were designed based on scientific principles! What aspect of Iranian culture can you name that has ever been designed based on scientific anything!? Name one!? Let's face it, Iran and Iranians have been stuck in 700 AD for almost 1400 years and all because of a disease worse than AIDS called Islam! Short of a massive bombing of the Islamic Republic, Iran and Iranians are going to be stuck in 700 AD for another 1400 years!

Long live AbA, Ammameh, Aftabeh, and Vajebee! The great contributions of Iran and Iranians to the world!

Thank you for sharing. I

Thank you for sharing. I enjoyed it. It has a scent of Meehan.

dead western

is that all you saw from this video 14u?? how drowned in western culture do you have to be to see such superficial things? "matching pajamas"???? if you don't enjoy this type of music that inspires a deeper sensation and outlook you don't have to watch it. You can go and listen your Enrique tonight and make yourself happy. Let the tradition Persian music remain traditional.

Freakish is right

Why do bald guys insist on growing their hair long? This is the kind of self indulgent obsessive compulsive ADHD-ridden music we need to get rid of. Especially the matching pajamas! When are we going to stop looking back, and look forward for a change. These guys look like secret gay lovers sending each other "signals" YAAAWWWWNNNN! BORING!!!