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History of vinyl records in Iran

This section is currently UNDER CONTRUCTION and still incomplete

The music industry in the 60's and 70's in Iran had its unique features that were unlike those of the music industry in western developed countries. I will explore these peculiarities in this page and explain how they affected the music artistically.

A ridiculous site existed on the web pretending to explore what it erronously calls persian discography. The site is by an old person inside i-ran that goes around talking about how he is a scientist, as if he is the only person with a University Degree. I told him I graduated from one of the top 20 Universities in the U.S. and I don't need to take any of his large ego, since he probably graduated from some crap university inside I-ran. The information on his site is incorrect, incomplete and extremely idiotic. You are not telling much when you say a 45rpm is 17cm's. We already know that!!. That said, this section will only cover the rock era and not 78rpm era.

Some of the topics that shape iranian vinyl music which I plan to cover are listed here:

- The first Rock and roll era songs in I-ran: Mara Beboos, Mahtab

- Record stores functioning as record labels similar to Sun Records Memphis

- Same recording appearing on different record labels

- Albums 33rpms in Iran. Albums as compilations and not as concepts. No Sargent Peper

- Beat records

- 1975 taxation ending vinyl releases in I-ran with exceptions.

- Loss of the original multi track master tapes

- Vartan / Royal Video

- Studio Pop

- 2 Track recording - outdated equipment - upto 1974 !!!

- Closed and limited group of successful singers. No new singers entering the circle after 1975

- Unreliable sales figures. Sales figures from first hand conversation with some of the artists: Shamaizadeh (Mordab / Hobab ) , Gougoush ( Harf). Aghasi (lab e Karoon). Comparison with sales figures from countries with reliable and legitimate information such as Spain or France.

- Beethoven store and generic sleeves.

- Lavi store and their release of records by Dariush , Farhad and other artists not receiving airplay.

- Lalezar Street.

This section is currently UNDER CONTRUCTION and still incomplete. In the meantime I have added some notes from emails aobout persian music I sent to people who requested information

Persian music in the 60's was not very interesting. The big change came around 1969. The main change, which also helped make iranian music different from any other pop music was that it became "Lyrics-centric". In farsi they even have a name for it called "Saalaary writing".

Usually in the west, ideally a melody is created first and then you put lyrics to it. My guess is that, that is what they used to do in Iran in the 60's and maybe that's why the songs sounded so simple.

However, with the shift of focus towards lyrics, it forced the melody writer to adapt to complicated iranian lyrics. Each language as you know has a special form to it, as in the number of syllabols that are used, the sound of each word, the length of the typical sentece. Each is very different in each language. Thats why when the melody had to adapt to persian political social lyrics, it became a "different" melody.

Songs sung by Dariush (his second period after 1973) and Ebi and Maziar have many melodic parts to them, because the lyrics is long.

Ironically the guy that was able to best adapt to this new format of songwriting was Farid Zaland which was the son of Afghan singer songwriter jalil Zaland.

The other big difference with iranian pop music, is the importance of iranian classical vocal music in Iran. This is because the governement sponsored heavily iranian classical music (vocal). A very important radio program was called GOLHA (Flowers) , which was followed by millions of people. The program was top-notch and had songs written, arranged and played exclusevly for it. It had a 50 piece orchestra just for that show. And everyone participating was a music scollar. Many famous vocalists like Haydeh, simin Ghanem, Pooran, Sima Bina... participated as guest vocalists.

This program really influenced iranian music as it forced people to accept "long arrangement breaks" and long orchestral breaks in the middle of a song and in general to be acceptable of a slower paced more contemplative music.

I would also mention Studio Pop which was the recording studio where the "magic" happened for most iranian recordings. They even have a website.

So to make it short ... To those you mentioned, I would add: Monfaredzadeh (music) , Shamaizadeh (music), Shahriar Ghanbari (lyrics), Tajvidi (Music - Golha head guy - his picture appeared on the jacket of one of the Haydeh singles I bought from you ) , Farid Zaland (music), Manouchehr and Nasser Cheshmazar (arrangers.) Ardalan Sarfaraz (lyrics).

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There are some web stores that have audio samples,:
http://www.mzmrecords.com/cart/
These two dvd's are very interesting from the 70s in order to get introduced to this music:
DVDs
Then there is :
http://www.caltexrecords.com/scripts/catalog.asp
And there is :
http://www.musicboxla.com/pop.html
And:
pars video

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