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v/a - rangarang: pre-revolutionary iranian pop - vampisoul - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: World - Misc

1. Fereidoon Farrokhzad - Aashianeh
2. Neli - Do Parandeh
3. Mehrpouya - Dokhtare Shab
4. Leila Forouhar - Moama
5. Afshin Moghaddam - Gharibooneh
6. Pooran (feat. Manouchehr Sakhaei) - Ey Vallah
7. Shohreh - Omadi
8. Habib - Gheseye Rooze Siah
9. Pooran - Shahre Paiz
10. Kourosh Yaghmaei - Khaar
11. Hamid Shabkhiz - Asemoni
12. Googoosh - Age Bemooni
13. Simin Ghanem - Lanehe Moor
14. Pooran - Viroon Beshi Ay Del
15. Dariush - Daad Az In Del
16. Leila Forouhar - Kalaghaye Khabarchin
17. Ahmad Zahir - Tang Ast Dilam
18. Googoosh - Age Mishod Che Mishod
19. Habib - Bi To Man
20. Hassan Khayatbashi - Goftam Be Chashm
21. Beti - Bikasi
22. Leila Forouhar - Hamparvaz
23. Aref (feat. Hayedeh) - Negaham Kon
24. Giti - Tarsam Az Eshgh
25. Simin Ghanem - Abre Payizi
26. Hamid Shabkhiz - Asheghi Doroughe
27. Leila Forouhar - Yek Nafas Atre To Bas
28. Neli - Hobab

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.