Most people think that they only like the music of their own and sometimes this is true. Our ears get used to music and we enjoy listening to it. But sometimes new music takes us by surprise. Music can be a common pain or passion between different people...
4 May 2021 1 minute read 4 comments Melina Mehr
In all parts of Iran, as in other countries, local dances specific to that region are common. And the history of some of them dates back to several thousand years BC. Archaeological findings in different parts of Iran show that dancing was practiced...
3 May 2021 1 minute read 3 comments Melina Mehr
The beautiful and old song "Pasban Haram Del" (means the guardian of the heart sanctuary) of Mohammad Reza Shajarian belongs to the album Del Shodegan (Lovers) and has been played in a film of the same name directed by Ali Hatami, one of the famous...
1 May 2021 1 minute read 8 comments Melina Mehr
One of the passionate performances that you will find from Mohammad Reza Shajarian (the Master of Persian traditional music mostly called Mistro) is a song named "Parvaneh Sho" (became a butterfly!). In this sentimental performance, you can see that...
29 Apr 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr
An interesting music video by Shadmehr Aghili, a Persian singer living in Los Angeles. He has been living abroad for many years, but like many Iranian singers, he has many fans inside Iran still. I have listened to many interesting songs by Shadmeh...
27 Apr 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr
Let's see what happens when a singer is forced to leave his own country because of a suffocating and religious atmosphere! As he faces the free world, all of a sudden he realizes he can sing whatever he wants! This song released almost three deca...
25 Apr 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr
My heart aches when I listen to this song. I don’t know if it is Shadmehr's hard-breaking voice or the meaning of the song. I used to love songs telling a story, that emotions become more and more involved every moment, as the music goes higher and...
24 Apr 2021 2 minute read 3 comments Melina Mehr
Shadmehr (his name literally means happy kindness) used to be one of the most handsome singers in Iran when I was young and girls like us would fall for him back in the days. His father was a martyr and he would perform songs for revolution and of...
20 Apr 2021 1 minute read 3 comments Melina Mehr
Avaaz is traditional Iranian style singing, which is also called Tahrir, and is a melodic sound created by a singer as he/she is performing, which is in fact, quickly cutting notes between sounds with the help of laryngeal muscles. It is also called...
18 Apr 2021 1 minute read 3 comments Melina Mehr
The song Afsaneh (means Legend), taken from the album (legend of your eyes), is based on a poem of Nima Yoshij, "the father of new poetry in Iran". Nima Yoshij was the first to do new poetry in Iran. Before him, the poems without some sort of speci...
17 Apr 2021 1 minute read 10 comments Melina Mehr
The song "Call of Love", which Mohammad Reza Shajarian, the powerful Mistro has singed, is based on a single verse of Hafiz poetry, the old and most famous Persian poet. In the verse, Someone shouts: Come on, Saghi (Cup-bearer)! And watch close what...
