KIOSK

Nice songs

and sad sad times for love and deeper moments together in the time of Facebook, Flickr and linkedIN and digicams.

I too, look for you in the endless world wide web for any information about you, for any picture of you because I have so many deep feelings for you. 

I do this all stupid things, instead of coming to you and ask whether you have time for a simple cup of coffee.... and nothing more.

Live from Yoshi in San

Live from Yoshi in San Francisco! This Live Version of the same song is much nicer in my opinion: (Both Arash's voice and the band's performance which proves they are indeed a great underground band...) :-))

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVg9iyfvIDs

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The Album

The other songs in this album are much better than this facebook song with it's usual mispronounciations like "Staatoos".

Mr. Sargord do you really like Rap?! The only decent part of that video is the middle-eastern violin tune. Without that 3 seconds, the rest is just a gang's Rap 1 letter short of Crap.

Me Likey!

The best (and worst) thing about Kiosk is that it is specifically crafted just for you, the Free-Iranian in pain, living outside of Iran (even if you live inside Iran).

The only bad (or good) thing is Kiosk doesn't translate outside of our little club of losers, and since we as Iranians rarely reward our geniuses like Arash with enough cash to do more, faster, it takes a while for him to save up enough from his day-job, to pay for these kinds of cupid-pointed expressions of love for us, just to wow us with his wit and not too shabby guitar-work.

And he always does. And we always go, "Wow!"

Great job as usual Arash-jan, Grrrrbonnet!

Just fantastic!!

Beautiful composition overall: instrumentals, video, lyrics. Kiosk contrasts a self effacing sense of humor with profound emotions; this is our Khayaam legacy. Also, the hidden statements layered underneath are a delight to discover and mull over. For example, the incessant teasing about how our traditional poetic vocabulary no longer fills the needs of modern expression. Unspoken context is what elevates entertainment to art.

My favorite line

آی عشق آی عشق فکر کنم هکت کردن رنگ آشنای چهره ات پیدا نیست

IMHO

They're a great band. But this song sucks.

ARASH & KIOSK ARE AWESOME

briliant album.

Stale and boring melody. Too

Stale and boring melody.

Too bad they can't sound more like this:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2hzVV2Nwfs

Great Album

The video is really good and creative. The whole "Triple Distilled" album is absolutely wonderful. It's a delight to listen too... every goddamn song! I always get worried when good bands and musicians put out new stuff, worried that it won't be as good, that there's no forward progress. This time there's nothing to worry about. Congrats to Kiosk!

He looks like Luke Wilson

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Although, pleased to see a video without a contents of serious mutilation of films - Parajanov was one one the greatest film makers of all time, HOW DARE YOU!?!

YOU MUTILATE!

( it's criminal theft actually, not to mention serious yuckiness, just ... //www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFRworsIhW4), I somewhat don't get it:

What exactly is the point of the image of the second female in the beginning of the video?

And what is the point of these lyrics?

" Thank god for botox; my facial expressions are wearing rather thin...."

Fantastic.... :D

Arash and Kiosk are one of the coolest Iranian bands ever... I have followed them since 2004 with all of their albums even the ones with the original singer in Iran who never made it to the free world, unfortunately... My non-Iranian friends also have loved their music and I have been proud sharing their songs with them...

Here is another version (LIVE) that I have shared on my facebook at least five times in last month, LOL . I love this particular performance:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVg9iyfvIDs

Thanks for the new clip and translation...

References from poem "Koocheh" from Moshiri

نرمیدم نگسستم توی استاتوسم نوشتم که تو صیادی و من آهوی دشتم
تا به دام تو در افتم همه جا دنبالت گشتم

Yara jan thanks for posting the lyrics in Persian

I printed the lines and listened to the song for the 3rd time. Just in terms of poetic refrences he cites: Nima, Shamlo, Forough, Behrangi.

Looks like the lyrics in Persian runs some extra lines, not covered in the video. Some of these lines are destined to become instant pop-culture  " classics":

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وقتی‌ نستالژیک میشم از خودم بدم میاد

آدمی‌ که فردا نداره با هاس فقط دیروز یادش بیاد
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شیفته ماتریالیسم و دیالکتیک، بعد گرفتار متن شدیم و هرمنوتیک

وقتی‌ فلسفیک میشم از خودم بدم میاد

برای فرار از واقعیت راهی‌ دیگه به ذهنم نمیاد
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Simply brillinat

Do I have too express my self, Again

Yes, that's all I (we) can do to support Kisok and other great under ground musician to let them know they are doing a great job and thank them for their hard work, before Islam execute them.  

I like Kisok style, this is another good one. 

Long live under ground music. 

It is nice song but in real life the person might not appreciate

Even though it is a nice song but if you think about it, in real life, if someone did all these things, majority of the time the other side will not appreciate it.

Now that I am reading the Persian lyrics, as another commentator noted, the references to poem of "Koocheh' of Moshiri is really nice. 

Awesome song/ lyrics

Just Brilliant band!

Thanks to whoever did the first translation of the song, And Aref-adib for the hyperlinked translation (which i posted on my fb so my non-persian speaking friends could understand my enthusiasm about Kiosk's new album)

Farsi Lyrics

عشق و مرگ در دنیای مجازی
فهرست سیاه فهرست قرمز فهرست بزرگ و جهانی‌ وب گوگل
با موتور جستجوگرم، گشتم و ویراژ دادم تو کوچه پس کوچه‌های تاریک و تو در تو فیلترنت
توی فیسبوک عاقبت پیدات کردم، ادت کردم، صد بار صد بار ایگنرم کردی
نرمیدم نگسستم توی استاتوسم نوشتم که تو صیادی و من آهوی داشتم
تا به دام تو در افتم همه جا دنبالت گشتم
عکس پرفایلمو دادم بچه‌های خبرگزاری فارس فتوشاپ کردن خوش‌تیپ شدم
یه چند تا عکس از غروب از فیلیکر دانلود کردم با … اشو کاپشن کردم تا عاقبت اکسپتم کردی
مثل سایه تو کامیونیتی‌ها دنبالت بودم
هر چی‌ لینک میکردی لایک میکردم، شئر می‌کردم، ویدئو‌های یوتیوب رو زیر اسمت تگ می‌کردم
به ایونت‌ها اینوایت می‌کردم، میزدم خودم رو به در و به والم
گرم یاد آوری یا نه من از یادت نمیکاهم
من تو را چشم در راهم، انقده برات گیفت میفرستم تا بدونی که از یادت نمی‌کاهم
ریلیشن شیپت رو زدی ایتس کامپلیکیتد، الان وقت شکار منه
به من میگن دون ژوان دنیای مجازی، اینقده پوکت می‌کنم تا بیای رو اسکایپ با هم چت کنیم
از وبلاگت برام نگو و هیت‌های ایرانیان و بالاترین و بی‌‌بی‌سی
هر چی‌ بکوبی من می‌رقصم از لینک‌های با مزه تا پست‌های سیاسی‌
من فقط باید آورج گلم بالا بره، هیچی‌ دیگه برام مهم نیست، نه جرس، نه روز آن لاین نه خودنویس
من اهل رمانسم، پینگیلیش نوشتم تو بهنویس
آی عشق آی عشق
چهره آبیت پیدا نیست
آی عشق آی عشق فکر کنم هکت کردن رنگ آشنای چهره ات پیدا نیست

fun song...

they sound like dire straits...

English Translation of Lyrics with Hyperlinks:

The black list, the hit list,
the list of Google's world wide web....
I swerved through the dark corners of the filtered Net
Finally, I found you on Facebook, I ADDED you
-- and you IGNORED me.
Hundreds, hundreds of times...
I didn't falter, I didn't give up
I UPDATED my STATUS so the world would know:
You are the hunter and I am the prey!
And I'm trying to fall into your trap!
Yes, I've been all over LinkedIn, MySpace, ORKUT,
trying to fall into your trap...
I had the guys from FARS NEWS AGENCY PHOTOSHOP my PROFILE picture and make me look cool.
I uploaded romantic pictures of the sunset from FLICKR to my
ALBUMS and CAPTIONED them with silly quotes from OSHO
-- And finally, you ACCEPTED me
I FOLLOWED you like a shadow in the COMMUNITIES.
Everything you LINKED, I LIKED,
and I SHARED too
I TAGGED your name under YouTube videos,
I INVITED you to EVENTS,
I through myself against doors and WALLs
Whether you think of me or not, I'll never forget you.
My eyes are peeled, searching for you.
I'll send you GIFTS, so that you'll realise
-- I'll never forget you.
You've set your RELATIONSHIP to IT'S COMPLICATED.
That's my cue--I'm the Don Juan of the Cyber World!
I'll POKE you until you agree to log into SKYPE and CHAT with me!
Even the Cyber Army can't stop me...
Don't stress over your BLOG or your HITS on IRANIAN.com, BALATARIN or BBC.
From the cute LINKS to the political ones
-- anything goes for me.
Nothing can stop me-
not JARAS,
not ROOZONLINE,
nor KHODNEVIS.
I care only for Romance!
I wrote it in PINGILISH on BEHNEVIS:
Oh love, oh love! Your blue face is nowhere to be seen...
Oh love, oh love! Maybe they've HACKED you...
Your beloved face is nowhere to be found!
I adore your every PIXEL!
Don't you CLICK me away!

awesome

loved the references to modern Persian poets Nima, Shamloo and Moshiri.
Great concept and execution!
Cheers, Kayvan