Gratitude and blessings to my tanbour teachers- Keyshosro Pournazeri, for having accepted with open mind and heart a Persian woman as his pupil, at a time when this music was still kept tightly secret; Ali Akbar Moradi for generously revealing to me the beauties of the maqams; Alireza Feyz Bashipoor;
To maestro Shahram Nazeri for his constant encouragements and for honoring me with the tanbour name of Heyraneh, in his remembrance of a woman dervish in Kermanshah by that name;
To all my spiritual teachers;
To all the supportive beautiful beings in this work, including Michel Tyabji who suggested the creation of this album.
Heyraneh
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HEYRANEH: Prayers on Tanbour
Ecstatic & transcendental devotional chants based on sacred & ancient Kurdish Yarsan modes woven with word of Rumi, Hafez & Baba Taher.
Heyraneh was introduced to Persian mystic poetry and tradiotional music by her grandfather during childhood, living by his side. She started music by learning kamancheh from Morteza Varzi in 1980 and later from Mohammad Reza Lotfi. She then studied radif on Setar with Mehdi Kamalian. In 1993, she took up Tanbur, the devotional string instrument of Yarsan people of Kermanshah in Iran. She studied this music consecutively with Keykhosro Pournazeri, Ali Akbar Moradi and Alireza Feyz Bashipoor. Since then, playing and chanting with tanbour has been part of her daily bhakti yoga practice. She never intended to publicly share her prayers until recently when record producer Michel Tyabji of Limitless Sky Records, requested she recorded the songs she composed as meditations. She contacted percussionist Jamie Papish, one of the few Americans playing a frame drum called Daf- a traditional Iranian instrument used for devotional practice- who in turn contacted Christo Pellani-a versatile world music percussionist to add to the overall sound which led to the creation of her album “Prayers on Tanbour”. She now lives in Los Angeles where she teaches Kundalini yoga, and tanbour as meditation.
Heyraneh has contributed to the feature documentary "The Dalai Lama Renaissanc". http://www.dalailamafilm.com/bios.html She was also part of the 2008 World Sacred Music Festival in Los Angeles. http://www.festivalofsacredmusic.org/0917Heyranneh.html
Photo Exhibition by Majeed Beenteha At Seyhoun Gallery in LA The Opening night is July 25th Exhibition Dates: July 23rd to Aug 2nd Gallery Hours: 12-5 PM
Location: 9007 Melrose Ave. West Hollywood, CA 90069 Phone: 310-858-5984 seyhoun@irandokht.com
Out of all the releases so far this one is by far the wierdest. Sounds from this album tend to sound like dreams of an infant or ghostly murmurs through broken electronics. If you don't enjoy bizarre recordings then you probably will not enjoy this. Otherwise, turn it up really loud and get some strange looks from your neighbors. After all, where would the world be without its little peculiarities.
Hi Heyraneh. Thanks for the add. I like your music, friendship and your site. Stay in touch if you like and have a nice weekend. website: www. isound. com/johnkremer musical downloads: www. musicfan. fm/johnkremer Grtz, John.
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