Sumud [sound recording] / Niyaz.
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MusicPublisher number: 657036-1187-2 | Six DegreesSpoken language: Persian, Urdu, Kurdish Publication details: [Montreal] : Terrestrial Lane Music ; San Francisco, Calif. : Manufactured and marketed by Six Degrees Records, p2012.Description: 1 sound disc (ca. 50 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): - Produced, recorded and engineered by Azam Ali, Loga Ramin Torkian and Carmen Rizzo.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
For those who have grown up with Western pop music and who don't speak Arabic (or Persian or Turkish), the temptation when listening to a Niyaz album is simply to sit back and let the sinuous grooves and "exotic" melodies wash over you in a state of blissful Orientalist incomprehension. But that's always been a good way to miss a significant part of what this band is doing. While the lyrical themes of their first two albums have focused mainly on issues related to Iranians in exile around the world, their third, titled Sumud (Steadfastness) deals with broader issues of cultural diaspora and ethnic minority status. The program draws on Kurdish, Turkish, Afghani, and Palestinian material as well as folk songs from Iran; some of the songs are traditional folk music, while others are settings of secular and mystical poems from the 11th to the 17th centuries. For the most part, the songs are not directly political; instead, they tend to address predictable themes of love and longing, cultural tolerance, suffering as a shared experience, and endurance. But for those with ears to hear, there are subtle messages about the ultimate ineffectuality of borders, the implications of universal experience, and cultural resistance. If you are uninterested in such messages, there is still the option of sitting back and letting Ali's gorgeous voice and the band's tough, dark, powerful grooves carry you away. ~ Rick Anderson
Compact disc.
Folk music.
Parishaan (Iran) (3:57) -- Sosin (Kurdish) (3:36) -- Shah Sanam (Iran) (4:41) -- Mazaar (Afghanistan) (5:42) -- Vafa (Iran) (5:41) -- Dertli (Turkey) (4:18) -- Masooz (Iran) (4:06) -- Rayat al Sumud (Palestine) (3:21) -- Mahtaab (Iran) (4:36) -- Arzusun (Turkey) (6:25).
Produced, recorded and engineered by Azam Ali, Loga Ramin Torkian and Carmen Rizzo.
Niyaz is : Azam Ali, Loga Ramin Torkian, Carmen Rizzo. Featuring Habib Meftah Boushehri, Ulas Ozdemir, Naser Musa, Omer Avci.
Produced, recorded, engineered, and mixed in Montreal, Québec. Mastered by Dale Becker at Bernie Becker Mastering, Pasadena, and La Hacienda Studio, Montreal.
Niyaz has added an electronic note to these traditional songs from around Asia and the Middle East to help break down the barriers between peoples.
Sung in Farsi, Dari, Urdu and Kurmanji. Some lyrics translated into English on insert.