Mirror and Song - A collection of 28 cassettes of regional and religious music of Iran published in Iran, recorded in 1994 - Cassette 10: Music from Baluchestan

Side A:

1. Music Sowti from Baluchestan - Iranshahr

2, Music Sowti from Baluchestan - Zahedan

Din Mohammad Zangeshahi (Vocal & Ghichak (Sorud)), 

Baloch Zangeshahi (Vocal & Tambourak)

Rahmatollah Davudi (Rabab)

and a Doholak player

Side B:

Music Sarhadi from Baluchestan - Zahedan

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Mirror and Song - A collection of 28 cassettes of regional and religious music of Iran published in Iran, recorded in 1994 - Cassette 9: Music from Baluchestan

Side A:

Music from Beluchestan - Chabahar

1. Sowt Music from Beluchestan - Chabahar

A singer accompanied by Ghichak (Sorud), Tambourak & Doholak

2. Liku by Shir-Mohammad Espandar (Doneli)

Side B:

Music from Beluchestan

1. Kurdi by Shir-Mohammad Espandar (Vocal & Doneli)

2. Sowt Music from Beluchestan - Iranshahr

Mashallah Bameri (1950-2011) (Vocal & Tambourak)

Jahangir Parvin (Ghichak (Sorud))  

and a Tambourak player, a Kuse and Tasht player and two Doholak players

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By Shir-Mohammad Espandar we had already an entire cassette in the Baluchestan album we posted on third of September. There is also a wonderful CD by him which can be obtained from info@raga-maqam-dastgah.com:

By Mashallah Bameri we also had an entire cassette in the Baluchestan album we posted on third of September. There is a CD on which the bigger part is by him and his ensemble. The second part is by a Sorna ensemble.

Mirror and Song - A collection of 28 cassettes of regional and religious music of Iran published in Iran, recorded in 1994 - Cassette 8: Music from Torbat-e Jam (Khorasan) & Baluchestan

On this cassette we have two Sufi rituals (Dhikrs).

Side A:

Dhikr Circle of the Naqshbandiyye Tariqat

Haj Nour Mohammad Dorpour (Vocal soloist)

Gholam Ali Pouratta'i (Dotar & Vocal)

and nine Naqshbandiyye Dervishes

Side B:

Dhikrs from Nikshahr, Baluchestan

Qaderi dervishes

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NOUR MOHAMMAD DORPOUR

"Master vocalist and dotar player (lute) Nour Mohammad Dorpour is one of the most respected singers of mystical Sufi song from Southern Khorasan in the Northeast of Iran. As a bard and mystic, Dorpour has a repertoire of literally several thousand lyrics of mystic songs which he memorizes all by heart, and he is most well known for his recitations of the poetry of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Rumi. He accompanies himself on the dotar (lute). Dorpour, a Turkman, belongs to a branch of the the Naqshbandieh Sufi order."

Nour Mohammad Dorpour is the last master who knows the old mystical repertoire of Torbat-e Jam in Eastern Khorasan in its vast completeness. I'm not sure if he is still living. In Iran these CDs have been published:

The recordings of this cassette have been released on CD in 2015, together with a third recording from this series, with a detailed booklet in Farsi and English, written by Mohammad Reza Darvishi:

As usual, all these CDs can be obtained from: info@raga-maqam-dastgah.com

Here we had already a recording by Nour Mohammad Dorpour in Vol. 5. He is also present in several series of regional music mentioned in Vol. 1 and the three albums of music from Khorasan mentioned here, which we plan to post in the future. 

Mirror and Song - A collection of 28 cassettes of regional and religious music of Iran published in Iran, recorded in 1994 - Cassette 7: Music from Northern Khorasan & Torbat-e Jam

Side A:

Music from Northern Khorasan

1. Haj Ghorban Soleimani (Dotar & Vocal) 

accompanied by his son Ali Reza Soleimani (Dotar & Vocal) 

2. Sohrab Mohammadi (Dotar & Vocal) 

Side B:

Music from Northern Khorasan

1. Sohrab Mohammadi (Dotar & Vocal) 

Music from Torbat-e Jam

2. Jamshid Pouratta'i (Dotar & Vocal) 

3. Gholam Ali Pouratta'i (Dotar & Vocal) 

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Mirror and Song - A collection of 28 cassettes of regional and religious music of Iran published in Iran, recorded in 1994 - Cassette 6: Music from Northern Khorasan

Side A:

1. Mohammad Yegane (Dotar & Vocal)

2. Ali Gholamrezai (Dotar & Vocal)

3. Wali Rahimi (Kemencheh) & Hossein 'Azizpour (Vocal)

Side B:

1. Dotar & Vocal plus 2 more singers

2. Kemencheh & Vocal

3. Wali Rahimi (Kemencheh & Vocal) 

4. 'Isa Gholipour (Dotar & Vocal)

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Mirror and Song - A collection of 28 cassettes of regional and religious music of Iran published in Iran, recorded in 1994 - Cassette 5: Music from Khorasan (Torbat-e Jam & Kashmar)

Side A:

Music of Torbat-e Jam - Khorasan

1. Ghulam Ali Pouratta'i (Dotar) & Karim Karimi (Vocal)

2. Haj Nur Mohammad Dorpour (Vocal) & a Ney player

3. & 4. Dotar, Vocal & Daireh 

Side B:

Music of Torbat-e Jam - Khorasan

1. Dotar & Vocal

Music of Kashmar - Khorasan

2. Vocal & Ney

3. Vocal & Daireh

4. Vocal, Dosazeh, Daireh

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Mirror and Song - A collection of 28 cassettes of regional and religious music of Iran published in Iran, recorded in 1994 - Cassette 4: Ashiqi and other Music of Western Azerbaijan

Side A:

Ashiq Music of Western Azerbaijan - Vocal & Saz

Side B:

Tracks 1 & 2: I can't decipher

Track 3: Asuri (Assyrian) Music - Vocal, Kemencheh & Dohol

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Mirror and Song - A collection of 28 cassettes of regional and religious music of Iran published in Iran, recorded in 1994 - Cassette 3: Ashiqi, Asuri & Armeni Music of Western Azerbaijan

Side A:

Ashiq Music of Western Azerbaijan

Side B:

1. Ashiq Music of Western Azerbaijan

2. I can't decipher (must be the Asuri (Assyrian) music)

3. & 4. Armenian Music from Western Azerbaijan

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Mirror and Song - A collection of 28 cassettes of regional and religious music of Iran published in Iran, recorded in 1994 - Cassette 2: Ashiq & Mugam Music of Eastern Azerbaijan

Side A: Ashiq Music

Track 1 & 3: Ashiq Hassan Eskandari (Vocal & Saz)

accompanied by Balaban & Ghaval

Track 2: Ashiq Rasul Ghorbani (Vocal & Saz)

accompanied by Balaban & Ghaval

Side B: Mugam Music - Mugam Rast

Baha' ad-Din Khorasani (Vocal) 

Ostad Ali Salimi (Tar)

Shamin Mohammadpour (Kemencheh)

Ali-Reza Samadi (Ghaval)

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Mirror and Song - A collection of 28 cassettes of regional and religious music of Iran published in Iran, recorded in 1994 - Cassette 1: Ashiq Music of Eastern Azerbaijan

This is one of several collections of regional music produced in Iran in the last 20 years. Whereas other collections, like Gosan Parsi - Some Examples Of The Melodious Tale In Iran (15 volumes), Bakhtyari Music (15 volumes) and Iran Epic Music (23 volumes) have been republished - or directly published - on CD, this collection exists only on cassette. A couple of years ago the Iranian label Barbad had announced an edition on CD, but it never saw the day. Recently the legendary Iranian label Mahoor started to publish some of these recordings on single CDs in their "Regional Music of Iran" series, but it doesn't seem, that there ever will be the complete series on CD. 

Mirror and Song was produced and edited by Mohammad Reza Darvishi (born 1955). Mohammad Reza Darvishi is an extremely creative and productive composer of film music, music researcher, especially in the domain of regional music of Iran, and book author. He has produced dozens of excellent CDs and cassettes and written over a dozen of books on regional and classical Iranian music. He also organized several festivals of regional music, mostly in Tehran. Most of the collections on cassette or CD are recordings from these festivals. In this way he did an enormous work in making regional musical forms of Iran known to a bigger public and saving the music from extinction.

This collection is especially interesting as it contains a.o. different forms of ritual music like Sufi Dhikrs etc. of which no other recordings exist, as far as I know.

We will, step by step, post this complete collection, hopefully about one cassette per day.

Regarding the names of the musicians, I'm only able to decipher the names of musicians I know: here we have on side A in the first two tracks the wellknown Saz virtuoso Imran Haydari and on side B in the first track a famous Ashiq: Ashiq Rasul Ghorbani. The other names I'm not able to decipher completely.

Azerbaijan refers in this series to the Iranian province Azerbaijan, not the Republic of Azerbaijan.

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Here for the first time I'm using Dropbox to share these cassettes. If there occur any problems please let me know. Thanks.

Mahmud Karimi (Vocal) (1927-1984) & Mohammad Musavi (Ney) - Iran 3 & 4 - Anthologie de la musique traditionelle - Double LP published in France in 1981

There was on LP 1 some other kind of Iranian music in the background. No idea how this happened. I transferred these LPs already about 10 or 15 years ago into wave files. I made now a new transfer without these background noises. Sorry for the inconvenience. Here it is:

LP 1 & Scans - wave

LP 2 - wave

LP 1 & Scans - mp3

LP 2 - mp3