RANGARANG: PRE-REVOLUTIONARY IRANIAN POP by V/A
Tracks
- Fereidoon Farrokhzad - Aashianeh
- Neli - Do Parandeh
- Mehrpouya - Dokhtare Shab
- Leila Forouhar - Moama
- Afshin Moghaddam - Gharibooneh
- Pooran (feat. Manouchehr Sakhaei) - Ey Vallah
- Shohreh - Omadi
- Habib - Gheseye Rooze Siah
- Pooran - Shahre Paiz
- Kourosh Yaghmaei - Khaar
- Hamid Shabkhiz - Asemoni
- Googoosh - Age Bemooni
- Simin Ghanem - Lanehe Moor
- Pooran - Viroon Beshi Ay Del
- Dariush - Daad Az In Del
- Leila Forouhar - Kalaghaye Khabarchin
- Ahmad Zahir - Tang Ast Dilam
- Googoosh - Age Mishod Che Mishod
- Habib - Bi To Man
- Hassan Khayatbashi - Goftam Be Chashm
- Beti - Bikasi
- Leila Forouhar - Hamparvaz
- Aref (feat. Hayedeh) - Negaham Kon
- Giti - Tarsam Az Eshgh
- Simin Ghanem - Abre Payizi
- Hamid Shabkhiz - Asheghi Doroughe
- Leila Forouhar - Yek Nafas Atre To Bas
- Neli - Hobab
Description
Great compilation, showing music from a more liberal minded, pre-revolutionary Iran !These songs tell the stories of an artisan community that flourished during the 1960s and 1970s before vanishing into oblivion. The pop stars who stayed in Iran were summoned to the revolutionary court and forced to sign a declaration promising to abandon their careers and never perform again. By the time an exilic music industry had been established in Los Angeles, where many musicians settled after fleeing the chaotic disarray of post-revolutionary war-torn Iran, the beats and melodies of the monarchist era had given way to the synthesizers of the 1980s and Iranian pop music would never be the same again. The range of the tracks included on Rangarang is astonishing, from funky workouts and soulful pop to jazzy grooves and yearning ballads, all wonderfully and imaginatively produced and arranged, giving shape to truly popular music.
