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| Languages | Persian, English, German | ||||||||
| Awards | Tehran Underground Music Festival | ||||||||
| Charts | none | ||||||||
| Festivals | Tehran Underground Music Festival | ||||||||
| Iranian Online Rock Radio Stations | Zirzamin | ||||||||
| Online Media | Iranian underground music wikia,Iran rock portal,Iran rock news,Tehran Avenue, Zirzamine, Cafe Tehran, Blues Bazar | ||||||||
| Major Iranian musicians | |||||||||
| Niyaz– Farzad Golpayegani– Kahtmayan– Kaveh Yaghmaei– Kourosh Yaghmaei– Meera– O-HUM– Abjeez– Arashk– Vas– Barad– Laleh– Kiosk– Buddahead– Shahin and Sepehr– Reza Yazdani– Safeer-e-arsh– Agah Bahari– Hypernova– Mavara | |||||||||
Iranian rock (موسیقی راک ایرانی) is a form of rock music that is largely produced in Europe and Tehran's underground circles, and is rising to challenge "Tehrangeles pop", which has dominated the popular music genre of Iran for decades.
Iranian rock is almost entirely in Persian language. There are however musicians of Iranian descent both inside and outside Iran that produce their rock music in languages such as English or German. One example is Dario Amini whose hit "Just 4 today" was frequently heard on Iranian rock radiostations in 2006.
Iranian rock has its roots in American rock, British rock and German rock, but has its own distinctive elements mixed in to create a homegrown class of sounds and melodies, whether progressive, hard, or heavy metal.There has been many movements since mid 90s. However O-Hum, Mohsen Namjoo, Kiosk and 127 are considered the most successful bands.[1]
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History
Rock music in Iran has its beginnings in the 1970s with musicians such as Kourosh Yaghmaei. The 1979 Islamic revolution did not allow this musical genre to survive long. Ayatollah Khomeini banned rock music, inspiring The Clash to write Rock the Casbah.
During the late 1990s president Mohammad Khatami advocated a more open cultural atmosphere in his domestic policies, Iran came to witness a unique blossoming of an indigenous breed of rock and hard rock musicians. What separates this movement from its Tehrangeles pop counterpart is the young age group and the fact that it is almost entirely homegrown, and mostly underground.[2]
One of the first rock concerts ever to take place was that of an anonymous but highly acclaimed band in Tehran's underground scene[3] called "Pezhvak". The event was so significant that it even drew a Newsweek reporter to the concert. (.wma sample 1) (2)
Public open live concerts are heavily restricted by the government. Most rock bands however can obtain permission to perform on stage live, provided their music is purely instrumental. A typical example of what is tolerated is the performance of the band Kathmayan in Kish, Iran.
In July 2005, for the first time, a music production company in Canada by the name of Bamahang Productions released an album from Kiosk ,www.kiosk-music.com another homegrown Iranian Rock band, called Adameh Mamooli (Ordinary Man), and succeeded in adding it to the iTunes Digital Music catalog, making it the first Iranian Underground Rock Music album to be available for digital download from iTunes. In December 2005, the same company managed to finally release the 2nd album from O-Hum entitled Aloodeh
The contemporary scene
Within a few years after the launch of Tehran's underground scene in the late nineties, some bands started superimposing the poetry of Persian literature such as Hafez in their lyrics on top of classical western rock tunes and melodies, and peppered with sounds of traditional Persian music.[4]
Among the pioneers of this movement, the rock band O-Hum was first permitted to play in freely mixed sex concerts for Christian minorities in Tehran.[5] Today, there are underground competitions and music critics writing of these bands. Occasionally the government allows rock concerts to take place under strict conditions.[6] Music with English lyrics has been performed by bands such as Barad and The Technicolor Dream.
Rising faces in iranian rock music
The following samples a list of homegrown Iranian rock bands, mostly active in Iran. Some are approved by the government, other continue to operate underground because of the restrictions imposed by The Ministry of Islamic Guidance.
- 127, One of the most famous and successful Iranian bands.The first Iranian rock band that toured the USA[7].They've also been featured by most major international presses.Their music is a unique mixture of rock,jazz and Iranian melodies.
- Mohsen Namjoo was an Iranian musician mixing the elements of iranian traditional music with rock achieving a wide success in Iran.
- O-Hum, mixing Hafez poems with rock music:
- Kiosk, a country/blues/alternative rock band that had a wide success in Iran.
- Sarakhs Alternative rock band based in Tehran.
- Mordab (ram)
- Beh man doroogh begoo (m3u)
- "Broken" by Buddahead. The "top-grade"[8] rock band is said to have a "spellbinding tenor and a real knack for spinning out ear candy."[9]
- The government approved band Meera:
- The Yellow Dogs, A young Iranian underground indie rock band.One of the remarkable avant-gard acts in underground music scene of Tehran in recent year's.
- Barad, is an Iranian supergroup that was one of the pioneers of Iranian folk rock.
- Sarakhs is an Iranian alternative rock band. They are considered to be one of the unique acts in Iranian rock movement due to their artistic sound.[10]
- Arashk, a hard progressive rock band
- Agah Bahari, who has been collaborating with Derek Sherinian, formerly of Dream Theater and Planet X.
- Farzad Golpayegani: deemed one of "Iran's guitar monsters" according to Iranian Rock magazine "Zirzamin".[11]
- Abjeez, Persian "World pop" band from Sweden (The Abjeez unique sound is influenced by wide mixture of Reggae, Flamenco, SKA, Latino and Rock mastered to its own description of original melody and songs.
- Laleh was nominated with 7 Grammis in Sweden in 1995. She won 3 of the nominations for her song Live Tomorrow (video clip)
- Minus 1, an Alternative Metal band who released three singles so far.
Heavy metal movements in Iran
The major heavy metal scene in Iran began in late 90s.
- Kahtmayan is an Iranian progressive metal instrumental supergroup that's considered to be the most successful Iranian heavy metal act.[12]\
- 5grs is an Iranian power metal/progressive metal band formed by Pooyan Madadi.
- Mirage Town is an Iranian Alternative Metal band. The band is currently recording the debut album in Tehran; However there are 2 tracks available as follow:
- Harfe Man (Full Length mp3)
- Wasted Man (Full Length mp3)
- Achromatic is an Iranian alternative metal band. The band's sound is considered to be under the influence of NWoAHM scene.
Iranian extreme metal scene
Iranian extreme metal, is a wave starting in early 2000s. The wave mostly includes black metal bands which take a lot of influences from Norwegian black metal acts. Iranian black metal scene is more based on low tempo black metal genres such as gothic black metal and ambient black metal.
- Aras is an Iranian black metal artist considered one of the pioneers of Persian black metal and also one of the most successful acts.
- Nazhand is an Iranian black metal/ambient black metal artist. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of Persian black metal scene.
- Alyage is an Iranian doom/gothic black metal band pioneering Persian doom metal.
- Shab is an Iranian ambient/black metal band.
- Tarmaa is an Iranian ambient black metal act that is considered one of the pioneers of this genre in Iran.
- Midgard is an Iranian ambient black metal band known for its unusual artistic music.
- Sorg Innkallelse is one of the most successful Iranian Black metal bands. The band taken influences from Nordic black metal acts such as Darkthrone and Emperor.
- Emerna is the most successful Iranian ambient black metal band.
- Evoke Efrits is an Iranian ambient black metal band. The band is known for combining the elements of Iranian pop music with the artistic sound of ambient black metal acts such as Summoning.
- Beaten Victoriouses is an Iranian ambient/gothic black metal.
- Abathur is an Iranian blackened death metal band. They are the only known Iranian band in this genre.[13]
- Anencephal is an Iranian blackened/brutal death metal band. They've had influences from bands such as Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel.
- Artia is an Iranian Thrash/Death Metal band.
- AZHIROCK is an Iranian Nu/Progressive Death Metal band. Babak Farrokhi and Soheil Olfat have combined elements of Metalcore, Nu-Metal and even Thrash Metal music with Progressive music and also Death growls in vocals.
References
- ^ [40Cheragh magazine 7th year number 298, page 7: about persian rock]
- ^ Asharq Al-Awsat: "Iran's Underground Music Revolution". Accessed May 27, 2007. Link: [1]
- ^ The Iranian, Link: [2]
- ^ Tehran Avenue: Link: [3]
- ^ [4]
- ^ The Iranian. Link: [5]
- ^ Martin Hodgson, The Guardian (Apr 22, 2007)[6]
- ^ Review by New York Post, July 2004.
- ^ Review by Washington Post, July 2004.
- ^ [Iranian magazine "Zirzamin"]
- ^ Zirzamin: [7]
- ^ [40cheragh magazine no 330]
- ^ [Metale Irani underground magazine review]
iranrock.com جامعه راک ایران Iranian Rock Society
Major Iranian rock record labels
See also
External links
- Iranian underground music wikia
- Iranian rock portal
- Iranian rock news
- MTV report: Iranian band Hypernova tours in New York City
- BBC Report on O-Hum's first state sanctioned public concert
- BBC: "Fresh Iranian bands ready to rock"
- The Guardian: Rock bands struggling to be heard in Iran
- Christian Science Monitor: "You say you want a revolution? Iran bands rock on."
- The Boston Phoenix: "IRAN SO FAR AWAY: Tehran rockers 127 make it to America at last"
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