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Mar 14, 2026 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Music
With ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ
Exploring multiple facets of jazz-adjacent prog-rock, edgy fusion, Canterbury, Zeuhl, Rock-In-Opposition, avant-prog, Rock Progressivo Italiano, world music, ambient, anything virtuosic.
Persia is home to one of the oldest continuous major civilizations, united as a nation in the 7th Century BC. Some of the earliest complex instruments originated in this region in the 3rd Millennium BC.
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| 7:01 AM |
| Rahmatollah Badiyi Introduction Sounds of Violin and Kamancheh Amity Rcords 2000
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| 7:04 AM |
Set Break:
Iranian ethnic groups
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| 7:06 AM |
| Shahrokh Yadegari, Azam Ali & Keyavash Nourai Mithra Green Memories LilaSound Productions 2008 with vocalist Azam Ali
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| 7:14 AM |
| Shahram Nazeri Heyrani Heyrani (Perplexity) Hamavaz Ahang 2010 Kurdish musician born in 1950
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| 7:22 AM |
| Kayhan Kalhor & Ali Bahrami Fard Between the Heavens and Me I Will Not Stand Alone world village 2012 Iranian kamancheh and setar player, born in 1963. On this CD, he plays a "shah kaman', larger than a kamancheh.
Ali Bahrami Fard is playing a bass santur |
| 7:36 AM |
Set Break:
Imam Reza shrine
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| 7:41 AM |
| Dariush Track 7 ??? Persia Co. Inc. 2000
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| 7:47 AM |
| Sheida Jahed Kiye Kiye Dar Mizaneh Dar Fekr,E to Boudam: Resigning of Aliakbar Sheyda Tasnifs Avay-e-Novin 2005 Sheida Jahed (1965 - 2016) was an Iranian classical singer.
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| 7:49 AM |
| Alireza Eftekhari Sharh-e-Parishani Khodahafez Avaz-e-Bisotun 2008 Ali Reza Eftekhari (born 1958 in Isfahan, Iran) is an Iranian vocalist of Iranian classical and popular music.
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| 7:56 AM |
| Kayhan Kalhor & Mohammad-Reza Shajarian Desert Night Silence Desert Traditional Crossroads 2000 Mohammad-Reza Shajarian (1940 - 2020) was an internationally and critically acclaimed Iranian traditional singer, composer and master of Persian music.
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| 8:03 AM |
Set Break:
Mirror Hall of Golestan Palace
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| 8:07 AM |
| Dastan Ensemble Del Meeravad Ze Dastam Through Eternity (With Shahram Nazeri) Sounds True 1998 Dastan Ensemble is a Persian classical music ensemble, founded in 1991 by Hamid Motabassem.
the title means "My Heart Is Slipping From My Grasp" |
| 8:19 AM |
| Axiom of Choice Chaos of Paradise Niya Yesh Narada 2000 Axiom of Choice was a California based world music group of Iranian émigrés who performed a fusion style incorporating Persian classical music and modern Western musical concepts.
Led by Loga Ramin Torkian, who later founded 'Niyaz' with Azam Ali.
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| 8:29 AM |
Set Break:
Karnay from 6th Century BC
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| 8:33 AM |
| Maryam Chemirani, Sylvain Barou, Bijan Chemirani & Keyvan Chemirani Bâman Sanamâ Hâl. Ballades Amoureuses Alpha Classics 2021 Children of Iranian percussionist Djamchid Chemirani. Vocalist Maryam Chemirani.
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| 8:38 AM |
| The Kâmkârs Shelereh Nightingale with a Broken Wing Real World Records 1997 music from the Kurdish community of Iran
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| 8:47 AM |
| Azam Ali Mehman (The Guest) From Night to the Edge of Day Terrestrial Lane Productions Inc 2011 Azam Ali was born in Tehran, Iran and grew up in India from the age of four in the small town of Panchgani, in the state of Maharashtra. Initially studying santour, her magnificent singing voice drew attention, and she has since been an in-demand vocalist.
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| 8:52 AM |
| Hossein Alizadeh & Djivan Gasparyan Mama Endless Vision World Village 2005 Hossein Alizadeh is an Iranian composer, conductor and tar player, born in Tehran in 1951.
Djivan Gasparyan (1928-2021) is a duduk player from Armenia. |
| 8:56 AM |
Set Break:
dancers and musicians from a silver bowl (5th - 7th century AD)
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| 8:57 AM |
| Shahrokh Yadegari Mantra Green Memories LilaSound Productions 2008 with vocalist Azam Ali |