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Freedom to explore

In her new solo recording “Jostojoo” (Forever Seeking), Mamak Khadem aims to create music that is deeply connected to the Persian classical and folk music

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The Return

“Baz Amadam” (The Return) from Mamak Khadem’s latest album Jostojoo (“Forever Seeking”). She will be in concert in Los Angeles (Jan 31), San Diego (Feb

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SOUL NIDUS Live: Toronto

“BEST INDIE BANDS OF 2007” SOUL NIDUS Live @ The Opera House in Toronto http://www.theoperahousetoronto.com/events/view_entry.php?id=280&date=20071130 link to concert flyer: http://soulnidus.com/images/operahouseflyerfull.jpg SOUL NIDUS have been asked

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Ey Yaarom Biyaa

In their first East Coast appearance, Kiosk performed in an intimate setting at Johnny D’s Uptown Restaurant & Music Club in Somerville, MA. The 2-day

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From the heart

Video “Ahooyeh Mahe Nohom”: Hamed Nikpay, music by Ramin Behna, Lyrics by Amir Khosro Dehlavi Born in Iran in 1977, Hamed Nikpay learned to sing

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Kahtmayan

Kahtmayan: Live in Studio – The Last Station Due to strict government regulations imposed upon musicians in Iran, obtaining official permission to record and perform

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Mirza

Born in 1971 in Tehran, Babak Mirzakhani is a self-taught guitarist who first picked up the guitar in 1990. In 1996 started his university studies

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Fanoos

In 1993, Ramin and Behzad met each other for the first time and together they formed a band called “The Anonymous”. The band was broken

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Tehran Nights

Pedram Derakhshani and Saeed Shanbehzadeh collaborate on this album to create an amazing fusion of Bandari music from Southern Iran with modern Disco, Funk, and

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* * * *

This was originally from the album Endless Vision, a live recording with Hossein Alizadeh & Jivan Gasparyan on stage in the Niavaran Palace outdoor venue

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Auto-tune out

No, your ears are not having hearing problems. The whining voices in your head are only echos of shifting vocal pitches, not the actual tormented

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To

127 is an Iranian 5 piece band — guitar, piano, trombone, bass and drums — with roots in Iranian melodies and jazz with an alternative

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Seven

  For one who has admittedly never been good at math, I continue to be fascinated with the connotation of numbers and the significance they

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To hell and back

Dream #479 The terminal was deserted, but it took me forever to approach her counter and present myself. “Has your heart been in your possession

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Uncharted territory

In today's virtual music world of looped audio samples, synthetic sounds, and overdubbed studio recordings, it is a deep breath of fresh air to hear

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Best of both worlds

The only plausible explanation for categorizing music, is to make it easier to find what you are looking for in music stores. But in the

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Just like a woman

The concert was scheduled to start at 8:00pm. It was the second time I was going to see Bob Dylan within a year, and I

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The hum before the storm

Weather report for the Iranian music scene: There is a storm brewing in the Northwest from Vancouver BC, and its name is O-Hum. O-Hum is

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Real pahlavans

Whether we roll around the room laughing after seeing Siamax Maximus's workout video, or gasp at the sight of Julius Javidius in his birthday suit,

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