Thursday, 14 June 2018

Iran 1 - A Musical Anthology of the Orient - Unesco Collection - LP published in Germany in the early 1960s


Here the LP I promised to post last week. It has a.o. two outstanding long recordings by the singer Golpayegani (born 1933), accompanied on side one by the great Radif master Nur Ali Borumand (1905-1977) and on side two by Asghar Bahari (1905-1995), the great Kemanche master.
Unfortunately the singer later didn't stick to the tradition he inherited from two of the greatest Radif masters of his time: Nur Ali Borumand and the great singer Adib Khansari (1901-1982). Instead he opted for more popular music and the big success.
We don't have Iran II on LP, only on CD. So we will not post it. Anyway, the reason to post this LP was only to point out an early LP containing authentic Dastgah music from Iran and not the deluded version of the so-called Radio musicians. In effect the Dastgah Segah with Nur Ali Borumand is the first publication from the repertoire of this music as it was transmitted by the great Radif masters and completely unknown to the general public, even in Iran. See our post on Dariush Tala'i.
On the musicians see:
http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/borumand-nur-ali-b
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur-Ali_Borumand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali-Asghar_Bahari







The photos on the cover and in the booklet are not depicting the musicians performing on this LP.



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9 comments:

  1. Anonymous14 June 2018 at 13:04

    Thank you very much for the iranian music lps. I also very much enjoyed the ones from Central Asia. Best. Armand

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  2. BT14 June 2018 at 19:14

    Thank-you very much

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  3. Ricarditoj16 June 2018 at 13:55

    Thank you

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  4. Richard17 June 2018 at 04:52

    Thank you, and eid mubarak a day late!

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  5. Coltra18 June 2018 at 17:37

    Thanks Tawfiq, the more i listen the kemanche the more i like it.

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  6. Tawfiq30 June 2018 at 09:31

    Dear Coltra, next week I will post a cassette by Asghar Bahari.

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  7. Psikofobi5 July 2018 at 13:19

    Teşekkürler...

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  8. koparkuk26 October 2018 at 11:40

    Tawfiq, would you be interested in receiving the Iran II LP?

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  9. Tawfiq26 November 2018 at 22:47

    Dear Tristan,
    thank you for the offer. I have it as CD (both LPs on a double CD). I don't want to post it as it mostly contains the socalled radio musicians, which are the musicians who can't compare with the authentic masters. My goal was to make known the real authentic music.

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