Born in Tehran, Iran in 1980, Sepideh Raissadat is an Iranian classical singer. Sepideh began studying Radif (the Repertoire of the Persian classical music) at the age of 9 with the famous Persian singer Ms. Parissa.
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Rastak a new ensemble for contemporary Persian folk music was formed as an experimental music group in 1997. The group seeks to collect, record and interpret traditional Persian folk music for a global audience, incorporating language, culture and history also merging traditional instruments and forms with contemporary rhythms.
Tajik music is closely related to Central Asian forms. The classical music is shash-maqam (six-modes in Persian). Dastgah being the name for Persian modes, and maqams being the name for modes more generally. Shash-maqam which Uzbeks also developed classical music of Tajiks and made their own.
As Uzbekistan’s most popular singer, she regularly appeared in concerts and has released several albums. In 2008, Usmonova emigrated to Turkey citing dissatisfaction with political involvement, the problems with the control of state in Uzbekistan over where a singer is allowed to sing.
Mohammad Reza Mortazavi was born in Isfahan, Iran in 1978. His parents – both musicians – enabled him to take tombak drum lessons at the age of six (tombak is considered the principal percussion instrument of Persian music). He was quick to feel the power of the music deep inside. At the tender age of nine there was nothing more he could learn from his teacher.
Arshin Mal Alan is a 1913 comic and romantic operetta by Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov about the cloth peddler in the 1900s Shusha, who is looking for a wife.
Farhad Besharati is a Persian Kanun player who fuses traditional Persian music with contemporary flair. A Kanun is Persian instrument that looks very much like an autoharp, often used in Appalachian folk music, but sounds more like a cross between a mandolin and the Greek balalaika, with 78 strings and 30 notes.
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