Farshid A’rabi

Besides all problems that might occur to be able to gain a publish authorization for hard rock and roll and rock information in Iran, possibly the most important concern is definitely to accord Persian (Farsi) terms with this sort of music. Probably the most elegant effort with this field was created by Farshid A’rabi in 2004’s groundbreaking rock recording entitled Penhan (Hidden). A’rabi was created in 1970 in a family group which was totally acquainted with traditional Iranian music. In senior high school he familiar with hard rock and roll music and started to find out playing guitar. He began his professional profession like a songwriter, participant, and arranger in 1993. At the start, A’rabi with Nima Pour Shaef and Nima Nava Pour founded a music group called Faryab, that was active for approximately a decade. The band utilized to play instrumental hard rock and roll and rock music. From 1993 to 2000 he wrote some tunes for performers like Qassem Afshar and Yavar Eqtedari, many pieces for a few plays, and in addition made up music for the film Badamhaye Talkh (Bitter Almonds). In 2001 he begun to focus on his initial solo record (and initial official Persian-language rock record ever), Penhan, that the procedure of attaining a publish authorization from Iranian federal government took such a long time. Finally, in 2004 he been successful to present Penhan to open public. He constructed all music of Penhan and performed all equipment from guitar towards the drum coding. It is reasonable to state that he’s a musical genius. It is possible to hear the affects of ’70s and ’80s rock like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, while he uses poems of Rumi, an excellent traditional Iranian poet, for some of his melody lyrics. Using the heavenly poems of Rumi provides a totally Persian color to his music, which makes it amazingly close to globe fusion songs documented in the Persian vocabulary, like functions by Farman Fathalian, despite the fact that rock and globe fusion designs are fundamentally not the same as each other.