Artist : Kourosh Yaghmaei
Title : Back From The Brink
Genre : Psychedelic Rock
Year : 2011
Date : 08/2011
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 21
Label : Now Again
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.98.4
Length : 91:22 min
Size : 168,5 MB
Tracklist:
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01.gole yakh (winter sweet) 05:11
02.dar enteha (at the end) 04:10
03.hajme khali (empty bulk) 02:43
04.paiz (autumn) 04:24
05.leila (same) 04:28
06.del dareh pir misheh 02:55
(my heart is getting old)
07.akhm nakon (donÆt frown) 03:25
08.shirin joon (dear shirin) 03:26
09.ghazal (gazelle) 05:18
10.tavalode yek seda (birth of a sound) 04:23
11.saghe (stalk) 05:58
12.entezar (waiting) 03:25
13.niyayesh (praise) 04:28
14.saraabe toe (your mirage) 05:31
15.reyhan (same) 04:41
16.baroona (rains) 03:49
17.mosafere shahre baran 04:23
(the traveler of rain-town)
18.khaar (thistle) 06:47
19.havar havar 03:46
(shout shout) tak derakht (single tree)
20.ashiooneh (nest) 04:36
21.bachehaye khoobe koocheh 03:35
(the good children of the street)
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91:22 min
Now-Again Records is proud to present
Back From The Brink, the only
legitimately licensed collection of the
godfather of Iranian psychedelic rock,
Kourosh Yaghmaei. Known within the
Iranian diaspora simply by his first
name, Kourosh's Pre-Revolution
recordings were though lost after
Islamic fundamentalists took control of
Iran. They weren't: Kourosh had
protected them - along with key ephemera
from the 70's.
Their collection here - spread over 2
CDs, 3LPs and a 4x7" box set - bolstered
by Kourosh's first person recollections
of Iran's 70s rock scene and its death
after the Revolution - tells the story
of an artist's desire to persevere in
the face of terrible adversity. Kourosh
Yaghmaei and his brothers Kamran and
Kambiz were amongst the few inspired
Iranian musicians determined to change
Tehran's musical landscape in the late
60's and early 70's, The trio, armed
with rented, second-hand instruments and
records by The Ventures,
The Kinks, The Doors, merged Western
garage rock, psychedelia and Iranian
folkloric music to create a sound unlike
anything that came before them. Later,
inspired by the unlikely duo of Elton
John and James Taylor, Kourosh's music
took a sophisticated turn, and he
churned out funky, progressive rock that
is as imminently enjoyable as it is
impossible to categorize.
His star was knocked off course by the
Revolution, and its backdrop of Islamic
fundamentalists burning record companies
and harassing musicians. But while most
Pre-Revolution musicians - including his
brothers - fled Iran in 1979, Kourosh
stayed, loyal to the country of his
birth. He has suffered a performance and
recording ban for twenty-two out of the
last thirty-two years.
Yet he remains stoic and resolved to
continue bolstering Iranian musical
tradition...
http://www.nowagainrecords.com/